1 Amendments of Astrid LULLING related to 2009/2002(BUD)
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Supports the Commission's and the European Food Safety Authority's recent undertakings in relation to identifying the causes for an alarming decline in bee numbers (colony collapse disorder) and stresses the importance of making sufficient budgetary means available to tackle this problemincreasing appropriations to improve the production and marketing of honey in order to help tackle this problem, which is crucial to maintaining sufficient pollination in the Union; reiterates its calls for the costs of combating bee diseases to be assumed within the framework of veterinary policy;