However, the presence of non-blood tested sheep is likely to reduce the probable effectiveness of a 20-day standstill by a considerable amount.Following discussions with our main stakeholders, my officials are now consulting wider interests on proposals which will:retain the principle of the 20-day standstill during 2002, subject to review;allow, from mid-February, a number of limited exemptions from the standstill (for breeding bulls and rams, foster calves and lambs etc);permit from 18 March...