12 Amendments of Marc TARABELLA related to 2011/2108(INI)
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas beekeeping and biodiversity are mutually dependent; whereas, via pollination, bee colonies provide important environmental and social public goods, thus ensuring food security and maintaining biodiversity; whereas ‘bee pastures’ and diverse foraging grounds provide bees with the rich nutrition necessary to stay healthy, bearing in mind that this food needs to be available all the year round and during the most critical periods, i.e. before winter and in spring,
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas increased bee mortality has been reported in both the EU and other parts of the world; whereas science and veterinary practice cannot currently provide effective prevention or disease control against certain pests and diseases owing to insufficient research and development of new bee-health medicines in the past decades, which is the result of the limited size of the market and the consequent low interest of big pharmaceutical companies; deploring also a certain tendency among beekeepers to regard certain diseases as routine, although they are dangerous, and a lack of communication between the beekeeping world and – in particular – the public authorities,
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas beekeepers are primarily responsible for the health and well-being of their bees, though farming methods have a role to play too,Does not affect the English version.
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas, because active substances and medicines are not metabolised by bees and end up in honey, because European producers rely on clean, residue-free, high- quality honey, and also because of the problem of resistance, minimal use of veterinary products and active substances is advocated, as is maintaining a healthy colony immune system; whereas better communication among the various parties involved in beekeeping and farming is to be advocated in order to improve the organisation of the work done by each of them, i.e. for example to encourage farmers to spray at times when bees do not forage,
Amendment 58 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls on the Commission to increase the level of support for honeybee-health- related research under the next financial framework (FP8) and to focus the research on technological developments, disease prevention and control, particularly the impact of environmental factors on bee colony immune systems, defining sustainable agricultural practices and increasing non-chemical alternatives, and the development of veterinary medical products for current EU honeybee-disease- causing agents, especially Varroa destructor mites, Nosema ceranae endoparasites, American foulbrood or Paenibacillus larvae and other opportunistic diseases; calls on the Commission to rule out overlaps in the use of funds and to create new financial opportunities where needed;
Amendment 68 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Commission not only to promote the setting up of appropriate national surveillance systems but also to place existing initiatives such as the COST campaign – COLOSS project, which are recognised as effective, on a more permanent footing and to develop harmonised standards at EU level to allow comparison; stresses the need for uniform identification and registration of bee hives;
Amendment 103 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Stresses the need to support training programmes organised by universities, particularly those given by vets specialised and trained in these problems, for beekeepers and farmers on disease prevention and control, botanical knowledge and the impact of pesticides, with the purpose of encouraging the acquisition of qualifications;
Amendment 149 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Calls on the Commission, on the basis of reliable and effective tests, to consider chronic, larval and sub-lethal toxicity, and substance-pathogen and substance- substance synergies in the risk assessment of pesticides; calls on the Commission to pay special attention to specific pesticides, such as those of the family of the neonicotinoide family (clothianidin, thiacloprid, imidacloprid, thiamethoxam), phenyl-pyrazoles (fipronil) and pyrethroids, or active substances such as chlorpyrifos or Dimethoat, as these active substances in pesticides have a proven adverse effect on bee and colony health; application methods such as seed coating should also be considered;
Amendment 165 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Calls, in a spirit of dialogue between beekeepers and agricultural stakeholders and in order to remedy the existing communication deficit, for the setting up of a system of obligatory preliminary notification of beekeepers in all Member States in advance of pesticide applications, especially aerial chemical mosquito controls;
Amendment 170 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Calls on the Member States to make it possible to acquire higher-education qualifications in plant protection knowledge for use in agriculture, as is already the case in Belgium, for example;
Amendment 187 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Calls on the Commission to put in place or modify the annexes to Directive 2001/110/EC (Honey Directive) in order to improve the standards of EU production by establishing clear legal definitions for all apicultural products, including honey varieties, and defining the important parameters of honey quality, such as proline and saccharase content, lowa non- toxic level of HMF – to be determined – or humidity, and adulteration (such as the glycerine content, sugar isotope ratio (C13/C14), pollen spectrum and aroma and sugar content of honey);
Amendment 216 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31
Paragraph 31
31. Calls on the Commission to rank the sugar used for bee foraging purposes as inexpensive industrial sugar, given the high sugar prices on the EU market, and calls for better traceability of sugars in terms of production and composition, particularly as regards HMF;