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Activities of Maria Lidia SENRA RODRÍGUEZ related to 2017/2115(INI)

Plenary speeches (1)

Prospects and challenges for the EU apiculture sector (debate) PT
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2017/2115(INI)

Shadow reports (1)

REPORT on prospects and challenges for the EU apiculture sector PDF (401 KB) DOC (96 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: AGRI
Dossiers: 2017/2115(INI)
Documents: PDF(401 KB) DOC(96 KB)

Amendments (41)

Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
D. whereas during this period the bee population rose by 47.8 % but EU funding increased by just 12 %, so that the available EU funding is not sufficient to maintain the bee population;deleted
2017/09/12
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas during this period, the accession of new Member States and the procedure for declaring bee colonies (taking the period of the year in which beekeepers have most bees) have meant that the bee population in the Union has increased; whereas EU funds have grown by only 12 % and cannot meet the needs in terms of the renewal of colonies in certain Member States that are experiencing serious mortality;
2017/09/12
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D b (new)
Db. whereas this situation should not obscure one of the main concerns of the beekeeping sector, where mortality has reached levels above 50 % in some countries;
2017/09/12
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D c (new)
Dc. whereas the statistical increase in honeybee populations in the EU since the end of the 1990s should not disguise the fact that professionals in the sector are facing a loss of honey productivity in their hives and are having to increase their colony populations in order to produce equivalent amounts of honey;
2017/09/12
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
F. whereas in some Member States the tax laws differentiate between professional and amateur beekeepers, with the latter benefiting from tax relief, although this makes no sense professionally;
2017/09/12
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
G. whereas somethere are multiple stress factors causing bee mortality and decline. In order of importance: environmental degradation, the agricultural model and the impact of plant protection products; climate change and the serious consequences caused by invasive alien species such as Varroa destructor, the small hiveAethina tumida beetle, the Asian hornet Vespa velutina and American foulbrood are causing widespread destruction in; whereas the Ecuropean bee populrent situation andis causing serious harm to beekeepers;
2017/09/12
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
I. whereas beekeepers, agricultural producers and environmentalists also and citizens expect there EU to be a clear scientific consensus on all substances and other factors which are a danger to bees’ healthdraw conclusions from the scientific consensus that exists on the role of certain chemical substances that are hazardous for bees’ health, such as neonicotinoid insecticides;
2017/09/12
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 80 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I a (new)
Ia. whereas beekeepers and citizens expect the EU to formally adopt the guidelines for assessing the impact of plant protection products on bees, since these are the only ones that are suitable for determining the acceptability of the risk as required by Regulation 1107/2009;
2017/09/12
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 105 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L
L. whereas beekeepers always produce less honeyhave fewer hives once the winter is over, because of autumn and winter losses which can be as much asmore than 50 % in some Member States;
2017/09/12
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 114 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital M a (new)
Ma. whereas the amount of damage caused by Vespa velutina in apiaries is high and public authorities are failing to shoulder their responsibilities in managing this invasive alien species;
2017/09/12
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 121 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital O
O. whereas the EU imports 25almost 50 % of the honey it uses (60 % of its annual imports) each year from theseconsumes; whereas, whilst we produce 250 000 tonnes of honey a year in the European Union, we import 200 000 tonnes a year, mainly from countries, whi such ias why Europe’s beekeepers are in dire straitsChina, Ukraine and Mexico;
2017/09/12
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 170 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital AF
AF. whereas other beekeeping products such as pollen, propolis, beeswax and royal jelly alsore not adequately defined and regulated at European level, which facilitates increasing fraud and adulteration; whereas, however, they are increasingly being used as high-quality food and contribute significantly to people’scitizens’ wellbeing and play an important, while also playing a key role in the healthcare and cosmetics industries;
2017/09/12
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 176 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital AF a (new)
AFa. Whereas the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Panel on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) considers 40% of all pollinating species globally to be under threat of extinction and concludes that wild pollinators have declined in both occurrence and diversity, and in abundance for certain species, at local and regional scales in North West Europe;
2017/09/12
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 187 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital AF b (new)
AFb. Whereas International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) national Red List assessments, where available, show that often more than 40% of bee species maybe threatened with extinction;
2017/09/12
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 188 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital AF c (new)
AFc. Whereas International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List assessments show that in Europe 9% of bee and butterfly species are threatened and populations are declining for 37% (excluding data deficient species);
2017/09/12
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 191 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital AF d (new)
AFd. Whereas the long-term health and sustainability of the apiculture sector in Europe rests on ensuring the long-term health and sustainability of local honey bee ecotypes, given their diversity and adaptation to local environments;
2017/09/12
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 194 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital AF e (new)
AFe. Whereas neonicotinoid-based pesticides are particularly responsible for the worrying decline in bee populations throughout Europe, as demonstrated in numerous international studies;
2017/09/12
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 195 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital AF f (new)
AFf. Whereas France has put in place a total ban on the use of all neonicotinoid- based pesticides from 2018, notably in order to protect pollinators;
2017/09/12
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 203 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Believes that, for this to remain the case, it is necessary to monitor the content of agricultural pesticides and nutrients in surface waters, as well as the content of pesticides in pollen collected by bees;
2017/09/12
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 232 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Commission to include a new direct support scheme for beekeepers based on colony numbers in its proposals for the common agricultural policy post-2020, to be complemented by support per hive that is inversely proportional to the number of hives, with a ceiling being set;
2017/09/12
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 265 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
8. Considers that beekeepers producing honey for self-consumption should be granted tax relief in every Member State in view of the agricultural and environmental significance of their work;
2017/09/12
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 267 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Calls on the Commission to ensure public management of the invasive alien species Vespa velutina, and asks that beekeepers should not be left to shoulder this responsibility and that specific support be introduced to compensate for all losses caused to beekeepers by this alien species;
2017/09/12
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 290 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
10. Understands that some invasive alien species such as the Varroa destructor, the small hive beetle (Aethina tumida), the Asian hornet and American foulbrood are causing serious harm to beekeepers and widespread destruction among bees;deleted
2017/09/12
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 302 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Recognises the state of environmental degradation affecting bees, linked in particular to the presence of chemical substances that are hazardous for pollinators;
2017/09/12
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 303 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 b (new)
10b. Calls on the Commission and Member States to draw conclusions from the scientific consensus that has already been reached on the role of neonicotinoids in bee health and calls on the Commission to take this into account;
2017/09/12
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 306 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 c (new)
10c. Calls on the EU to formally adopt the guidelines for assessing the impact of plant protection products on bees, which are the only ones that can serve to determine the acceptability of the risk as required by Regulation 1107/2009;
2017/09/12
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 307 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 d (new)
10d. Understands that some invasive alien species such as the Varroa destructor, the small hive beetle (Aethina tumida), the Asian hornet and American foulbrood are causing serious harm to beekeepers and widespread destruction among bees;
2017/09/12
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 312 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
11. Calls on the Commission to involve all relevant drug producers in research into bee drugs and to set up a common IT platform to share best solutions and drugs with interested partiesensure that public research is conducted to guarantee products for the treatment of bee diseases that are as innocuous as possible and that do not leave any residues in the honey that may affect health;
2017/09/12
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 317 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Calls for research to be launched into the impact of the drugs used to treat varroa and other diseases affecting bees’ immune system, along the lines being proposed by some researchers;
2017/09/12
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 328 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
13. Calls on the Member States and the regions to use all means possible to protect local and regional bee varieties from the undesirable spread of naturalised or invasive alien varieties in the EU, making a specific line of support available to repopulate hives lost as a result of Vespa velutina with bees of local native varieties;
2017/09/12
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 350 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Underlines the extraordinary genetic heritage, diversity and capacity for adaptation of local, endemic honeybee populations, each tailored over generations to the particularities of their local environment, and insists upon the need to protect this vital genetic patrimony;
2017/09/12
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 357 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Calls on the Commission to impose a total ban on neonicotinoids and to review authorisations for other hazardous insecticides such as deltametrin, cypermethrin and chlorpyrifos;
2017/09/12
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 365 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 b (new)
14b. Underlines the importance of genetic diversity in honeybee sub-species and the need to protect local ecotypes in order to facilitate resistance to invasive species and diseases and thus ensure the long-term sustainability of European honeybee populations;
2017/09/12
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 372 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 b (new)
14b. Calls on the Member States to support the implementation of agri- environmental measures if these measures provide for the setting-up of bee colonies;
2017/09/12
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 375 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 c (new)
14c. Calls on the Commission and Member States to use bees as indicators of environmental quality and as a tool for assessing the effectiveness of the application of the CAP objectives, notably through the analysis of pollen residues and the botanical diversity of pollen collected from hives and other parent apiaries;
2017/09/12
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 376 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 c (new)
14c. Considers that the various ecotypes of the native honey bee of northern and western Europe, adapted to their different local environments over generations and over millennia, constitute an invaluable genetic resource indispensable for food production for present and future generations which must be safeguarded as a matter of priority;
2017/09/12
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 386 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 d (new)
14d. Insists that all efforts at EU, Member State, regional and local level to support the apiculture sector necessarily require parallel efforts to protect local honey bee populations;
2017/09/12
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 389 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 e (new)
14e. Recalls the legal duty of Member States within the original natural range of apis melifera melifera to preserve or establish protection areas for their native honey bees, in accordance with the 1992 UN Convention on Biological Diversity;
2017/09/12
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 392 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 f (new)
14f. Calls on the European Commission and Member States to put in place measures to increase legal protection and financial support for local honey bee ecotypes and populations throughout the European Union, including by way of legally protected locally endemic honeybee conservation areas;
2017/09/12
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 394 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 g (new)
14g. - Calls on the European Commission to propose legislation banning the production, sale and use of all neonicotinoid-based pesticides throughout the European Union without derogation and as a matter of priority in order to protect honey bee populations;
2017/09/12
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 469 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32
32. Calls on the Commission to allocate a specific sum from the EU’s promotional budget to advertising EU honey in the internal market, focusing on measures to promote the direct sale of honey at local markets and short marketing circuits;
2017/09/12
Committee: AGRI