20 Amendments of Bas EICKHOUT related to 2011/2108(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 7 a (new)
Citation 7 a (new)
- having regard to Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 October 2009 concerning the placing of plant protection products on the market and repealing Council Directives 79/117/EEC and 91/414/EEC1, ________ 1 OJ L 309, 24.11.2009, p. 1,
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 7 b (new)
Citation 7 b (new)
- having regard to Directive 2009/128/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 October 2009 establishing a framework for Community action to achieve the sustainable use of pesticides1, ________ 1 OJ L 309, 24.11.2009, p. 71,
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas the health of individual bees and colonies is affected by numerous lethal and sub-lethal factors, many of them interconnected; whereas the limited number of marketed medicines to fight the Varroa destructor mite are in many cases no longer efficient; whereas the toxic agents especially neurotoxic products and their synergists in certain pesticides, changing climatic and environmental conditions, loss of plant biodiversity, the increase of monocultures, land use change, mismanaged beekeeping practices and the presence of invasive species weaken colonies' immune systems and favour opportunistic pathologies,
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas beekeepers are primarily responsible forcan contribute to and help maintain the health and well- being of their bees, though farming methods have a role to play too, even in unfavourable environment.
Amendment 52 #
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 the bee colony immune system and interactions with pathologies, 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 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 66 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Commission to promote the setting up of appropriate national surveillance systems based on well established ones, like APENET in Italy, and to develop harmonised standards at EU level to allow comparison; stresses the need for uniform identification and registration of bee hives;
Amendment 77 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Stresses the need to support diagnostic laboratories and field tests at a national level and points out that overlaps in funding should be avoided; highlights the importance of monitoring carried out in Italy that resulted in the temporary ban on insecticides on maize seeds treated with clothianidin, thiamethoxam, imidacloprid and fipronil; overlapping should be avoided between the monitoring developed by COLOSS, that requested by Directive 2010/21 (monitoring the exposure of bees to the mentioned active substances) and that studying the factors of bee losses (EURL);
Amendment 86 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Commission to continue supporting scientific research on honeybee health, building on the good examples of the COST Action COLOSS, APENET and the BeeDoc and STEP initiatives; stresses nevertheless that relations with beekeepers and beekeeper organisations should be enhanced;
Amendment 97 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Stresses the need to encourage young beekeepers to enter the sector and to support training programmes for beekeepers and farmers on disease prevention and control, and for farmers on botanical knowledge, and the impact of pesticides, with the purpose of encouraging the acquisition of qualification and non-chemical agronomic practices preventing weeds;
Amendment 120 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Calls on the Commission to work out more flexible rules for the authorisation and availability of veterinary products for honeybees, especially medicines of plant origin and others that do not harm insects in the long term; welcomes the Commission's proposal on the revision of the veterinary medicinal product directive; emphasises however, that special attention be paid to antibiotics, which should not be authorised for opportunistic diseases in colonies, given the impacts on the quality of bee products and resistance;
Amendment 129 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. InvitesNotes that the new regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 has improved ecotoxicology criteria which need to be enforced; calls therefore upon the Commission to accelerate their implementation; calls upon the Commission to improve risk assessment methodology for pesticides, using the best bee toxicology expertise and experience, which should focus on both the individual insect and the entire colony, and to ensure free access to the ecotoxicological studies included in the authorisation dossiers;
Amendment 133 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Calls on the Member States to transpose and fully implement, as soon as possible, Directive 2009/128/EC on the sustainable use of pesticides and, in particular, to promote low-pesticide-input pest management andwhich in article 14 highlights that it will be mandatory for all farmers in the EU apply integrated pest management as from 2014 and that it will be mandatory for member states to create incentives for farmers to carry out more advanced levels of integrated pest management;
Amendment 147 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Calls on the Commission 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 toban specific pesticides, such as those of the family of the neonicotinoide family (Clothianidin, Thiacloprid, Imidacloprid, Thiamethoxam), phenyl-pyrazoles (Fipronil) and pyrethrinoids, or active substances such as Chlorpyrifos or Dimethoat, until it has been proved that they have no harmful effect on bees, 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 as specially risky for bees, since the risk assessment developed for their approval did not include the relevant routes by which bees are exposed to pesticides;
Amendment 158 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Calls for comprehensive scientific research, based on appropriate risk assessment, on the possible replacement of active substances in pesticides that are harmful to the pollinator or to aquatic animal stocks, starting with the application of sustainable agricultural practices including crop rotation;
Amendment 161 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Crecalls, in a spirit of dialogue between beekeepers and the general ban on agericultural stakeholders, for the setting up of a system of obligatory preliminary notification of beekeepers in all Member States in advancal spraying introduced with Directive 2009/128/EC on the sustainable use of pesticides applications, especially aerial chemical mosquito controlsnd the importance of favouring non-chemical methods first;
Amendment 169 #
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 especially non-chemical alternatives for use in agriculture;
Amendment 192 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
Paragraph 28
28. In the spirit of the EU's new quality policy, calls on beekeepers, their representative organisations and commercial companies to make better use of the EU origin labelling schemes (PDO and PGI) for hive products, which could contribute to the affordability of apicultural activity; calls upon the Commission to put in place quality terms for honey (e.g. traditional honey) and to promote the direct sale of apiculture products on local markets;
Amendment 194 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28 a (new)
Paragraph 28 a (new)
28 a. Calls for sustainable practices in all parts of the CAP, recalling that extended crop rotation systems, on-farm mixed cropping and grass-clover mixtures have major environmental and agronomic benefits, as leguminous crops in arable rotations prevent diseases, regenerate the soil, have a beneficial effect on pollinators and help climate change resilience and mitigation;
Amendment 209 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
Paragraph 30
30. Calls on the Commission to put sustainable agricultural practices at the heart of the CAP, by asking all EU farmers as from 2014 to apply a simple package of agronomic practices (including crop rotation, permanent pasture, cover crops, green infrastructure areas) and to encourage Member States to include, strengthen and develop the agri- environmental measures specific to the beekeeping sector,; in the spirit of the new EU Biodiversity Strategy, andcalls upon Commission and Member States to encourage farmers to engage in agri- environmental measures in order to support ‘bee-friendly’ grasslands on field margins, and to employ specialhigh diversity arable crop rotation and variation with leguminous crops, using non-chemical alternatives to weed control;
Amendment 220 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32 a (new)
Paragraph 32 a (new)
32 a. Emphasises that the number of pollinator species is declining at an alarming rate worldwide and that one of the reasons for this is the agricultural model that relies on the use of pesticides and genetically modified organisms (i.e. monoculture), which adversely affect bee populations;