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Proposal for a regulation
Article 52 – paragraph 1

1. Member States may draw up national programmes for the apiculture sector covering a period of three years. These programmes have to be developed in close cooperation with representative organisations and cooperatives in the beekeeping field.

2012/07/23
Committee: AGRI

Csaba Sándor TABAJDI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 52 – paragraph 2

2. The Union contribution to the apiculture programmes shall ~~not exceed~~be equivalent to 50 % of the expenditure borne by Member States.

2012/07/23
Committee: AGRI

Csaba Sándor TABAJDI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 52 – paragraph 3

3. To be eligible for the Union contribution provided for in paragraph 2, Member States shall establish a reliable system of annual assessment of the size of bee populations, possibly with the aid of beekeeping associations, and shall carry out a study of the production and marketing structure in the beekeeping sector in their territory.

2012/07/23
Committee: AGRI

Csaba Sándor TABAJDI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 52 – paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. The measures which may be included in apiculture programmes shall be the following: (a) technical assistance to beekeepers and beekeepers’ organisations; (b) combating beehive invaders and diseases, particularly varroosis; (c) rationalisation of transhumance; (d) measures to support laboratories for the analysis of apiculture products with the aim of helping beekeepers to market and increase the value of their products; (e) monitoring of the bee population of the Union and support for restocking; (f) cooperation with specialised bodies for the implementation of applied research programmes in the field of beekeeping and apiculture products; (g) market monitoring; (h) improving the quality of products with a view to more fully realising their value on the market, inter alia by means of support for material and non-material investment in production or marketing; (i) compulsory labelling with the country of origin of apiculture projects imported or produced in the Union and, in the case of mixtures or products of different origins, compulsory labelling with the proportion of each country of origin;

2012/07/23
Committee: AGRI

Csaba Sándor TABAJDI

Proposal for a regulation
Annex II – Part VIII – point 2 a (new)

2a. Definitions of hive products - Royal jelly: Natural substance secreted by the hypopharyngeal and mandibular glands of nurse bees (Apis mellifera). Mainly used to feed larvae and queens, it is a fresh, natural and unprocessed product. It may be filtered (without ultrafiltration), although no substance is added. - Pollen pellets: Accumulated pollen grains harvested by worker bees of the species Apis mellifera, which is compacted on their hind legs with the help of honey and/or nectar and bees' secretion. The protein source for the colony, the product is natural, free from additives and harvested at the entrance to the hive. - Bee pollen or bee bread: Pollen pellets packed into honeycomb cells by bees and which undergo natural processing leading to the presence of enzymes and commensal microbiota. It is used by nurse bees to feed the brood. It may not contain any additives except wax from the honeycomb cells. - Beeswax: Substance constituted solely from secretion of the wax glands of worker bees of the species Apis mellifera and used in the construction of honeycombs. - Propolis: Resin of exclusively natural and plant origin, harvested by worker bees of the species Apis mellifera from certain plant sources, to which their own secretion is added (primarily wax and salivary secretion) in order to be used as protection for the hive. - Bee venom: Secretion from the bee's venom gland used by bees to defend against hive attackers.

2012/07/25
Committee: AGRI

5 Amendments of Csaba Sándor TABAJDI related to 2011/0281(COD)

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