24 Amendments of Edouard FERRAND related to 2017/2115(INI)
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas the beekeeping sector is hugely significant (around EUR 14.2 annually), as 84 % of plant species and 7640% of food production are dependent on pollination by bees, which also helps maintain the ecological balance and biological diversity in Europe;
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas some invasive alien species such as Varroa destructor, the small hive beetle, the Asian hornet and American foulbrood are causing widespread destruction in the European bee population and causing serious harm to beekeepers; pointing out that movements of bees into and inside the EU are a major factor in the spread of various diseases and invasive species;
Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)
Recital H a (new)
Ha. whereas some countries like Switzerland use formic acid as a swift and efficient organic treatment which eliminates the parasite without triggering any mutations;
Amendment 77 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
I. whereas beekeepers, agricultural producers and environmentalists also expect there to be a clear scientific consensus on all substances and other factors which arcould be a danger to bees’ health;
Amendment 102 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L
Recital L
L. whereas beekeepers always produce less honey once the winter is over, because of autumn and winter losseslosses in winter, which can be as much as 50 % in some Member States, and whereas these losses can be offset by as much as 30% of the populations by anticipating this phenomenon and using fall-back colonies;
Amendment 125 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital O a (new)
Recital O a (new)
Oa. whereas imported honey is often adulterated or fake honey, which is not produced by bees and does not meet the standards applied to European beekeepers;
Amendment 130 #
P. whereas consumers are aware that no more thanoften uninformed as to a maximum of one third of the honey they use isbeing produced in the EU;
Amendment 132 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital Q
Recital Q
Q. whereas since 2001 the amount of honey in the world’s major honey- producing regions has stagnated or decreased as a result of the poor health of bees, whilst the amount of honeyhoney production in China has increased by over 80 % (to 200 000 tonnes);
Amendment 138 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital R
Recital R
R. whereas 100 000 tonnes of imported honey arrivese imported into the EU from China every year – double the amount recorded in 2002 – even though the number of bee colonies has declined in other parts of the worldand this is often adulterated with exogenous cane or corn sugar;
Amendment 146 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital U
Recital U
U. whereas, in December 2015, the Commission ordered the centralised testing of honeys on honey, but fake and adulterated honey continues to enter Europe;
Amendment 149 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital V a (new)
Recital V a (new)
Va. whereas free trade agreements and the opening-up of quotas to countries such as Ukraine have weakened the European beekeeping sector;
Amendment 150 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital X
Recital X
X. whereas the imbalance which developed in the European honey market, as a result of a policy of wholesale importation of fake low-cost honey, caused the purchase price of honey in the EU’s main producing countries (Romania, Bulgaria, Spain, Portugal, France, Croatia and Hungary) to halve by the end of 2016 as compared with the 2014 price, which is putting Europe’s beekeepers in a hopeless position;
Amendment 199 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Understands that bees perform a basic agricultural service by pollinating crops, without which European agriculture and in particularmost plant cultivation would not exist in any form;
Amendment 258 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Calls on the Commission to re- think, as it draws up the new CAP, its objectives in terms of increasing productivity in order to avoid excessive use of treatments which are deadly for bees and to guarantee them a healthy living space;
Amendment 261 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 b (new)
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7b. Calls on the Commission to promote ‘managed pollination’ in order to encourage beekeepers and farmers to work in harmony and thus improve crop yields;
Amendment 271 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
Amendment 279 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Believes that companies importing foreign honey as well as retailers should conform to European rules and should sell only beekeeping products which satisfy the definition of honey as set out in the Codex Alimentarius;
Amendment 397 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
Amendment 402 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Calls on the Commission to develop effective laboratory analysis procedures (e.g. nuclear magnetic resonance testing) which can be used to detect the increasingly sophisticated adulterations in order to detect instances of honey adulterationand to penalise fraud;
Amendment 411 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Expects honey always to be identifiable from the moment it leaves the hive and to be classifiable according to its plant origin, irrespective of whether it is a domestic or an imported product; calls in this respect for a tightening-up of the traceability requirement for honey;
Amendment 424 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Calls on the Commission to require official batch-sampling and testing of honey from non-EU countries at the EU’s external borders, by means of compulsory and inexpensive analyses, including the dead yeast test, in line with Regulation (EC) No 882/2004 (later Regulation (EU) 2017/625);
Amendment 431 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
27. Asks that theany ‘blend of EC and non- EC honeys’ descriptor be replaced by an indication of exactly which country or countries the honeys used in the final products come from and that these be listed in the order which corresponds to the proportions used in the final productbe prohibited;
Amendment 454 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
Paragraph 30
30. Calls on the Commission to put forward a proposal to increase EU support for these programmes by 50% annually to enable the school programmes to operate effectively and local products such as honey, olives and olive oil to be fully included;
Amendment 484 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34 a (new)
Paragraph 34 a (new)
34a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to adapt and harmonise legislation in the field of organic apiculture, so as to ensure that all European beekeepers have equal access to the organic products market;