10 Amendments of Herbert DORFMANN related to 2011/2108(INI)
Amendment 23 #
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 in certain pesticidand their synergies, changing climatic and environmental conditions, loss of plant biodiversity, land use change, mismanaged beekeeping practices and the presence of invasive species weaken colonies’ immune systems and favour opportunistic pathologies,
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Commission to promote the setting up of appropriate national surveillance systems and to develop harmonised standards at EU level to allow comparison; stresses the need for uniform identification and registration of bee hives;
Amendment 71 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 – point 1 (new)
Paragraph 2 – point 1 (new)
(1) Regards the introduction of a notification requirement, in particular for people who keep bees as a hobby, as a disproportionately bureaucratic arrangement; given the small-scale nature of the beekeeping sector and the constantly changing number of swarms, mandatory registration and identification is unworkable and should therefore be rejected;
Amendment 81 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Commission to set up a steering committee, together with representatives of the beekeeping sector, which will assist the Commission in establishing the annual work programme of the EU reference laboratory; deplores the fact that the first annual work programme of the EU’s reference laboratory was presented without prior consultation of stakeholders;
Amendment 98 #
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, botanical knowledge and the impact of pesticides, with the purpose of encouraging the acquisition of qualifications;
Amendment 118 #
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 plantnatural origin;, welcomes the Commission’s proposal on the revision of the veterinary medicinal product directive with particular attention for antibiotics, which should not be authorised for diseases which strike colonies when they are already debilitated, in view of their impact on the quality of beekeeping products;
Amendment 124 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Invites the Commission to improve risk assessmentthe methodology for pesticides, which should focus on both the individual insect and the entire colonyassessing the risk posed to bee colonies by plant protection products, and to ensure freappropriate access to the findings of the ecotoxicological studies included in the authorisation dossiers;
Amendment 132 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Emphasises that the European Union has only recently, with the committed involvement of the European Parliament, adopted new, stricter rules on the authorisation of plant protection products and their sustainable use, in order to ensure that they are safe for human beings and the environment; notes that these rules include additional, strict criteria relating to bee safety; calls on the Commission to keep Parliament informed about the successful implementation of the new rules;
Amendment 160 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
Amendment 188 #
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 honeythe quality of natural honey, such as proline and saccarase content, low level of HMF or humidity, and adulteration (such as the glycerine content, sugar isotope ratio (C13/C14), pollen spectrum and aroma and sugar content of honey); calls on the Commission to ensure that monitoring of the natural properties of honey which applies to European products also applies to products from third countries;