8 Amendments of Sylvie GOULARD 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 29 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas beekeepers are primarily responsible forcan help to improve and preserve the health and well-being of their bees, though farming methods have a role to play tooeven in a difficult environment,
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
F a. Whereas a large number of European beekeepers are amateur and not professional apiarists,
Amendment 63 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Commission to promote the setting up of appropriate national surveillance systems in close cooperation with beekeepers’ associations and to develop harmonised standards which are easy to introduce at EU level to allow comparison; stresses the need for uniform, and the annual identification and registration of bee hives;
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 177 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Calls on the Commission constantly to monitor the animal health situation in source countries, to apply the strictest animal health requirements and to put in place an appropriate monitoring system for the propagation material coming from third countries, in order to avoid introducing exotic bee diseases/parasites such as Aethina tumida beetles and Tropilaelaps mites into the EU; calls on the Commission, in cooperation with beekeeping organisations, to submit guidelines for the veterinary treatment of hives; calls on the Commission and Member States to increase transparency regarding the frequency, percentage, characteristics and above all the results of the security checks performed at border control posts;
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;
Amendment 206 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
Paragraph 30
30. Calls on the Commission to strengthen and develop the agri-environmental measures specific to the beekeeping sector, in the spirit of the new EU Biodiversity Strategy, and to encourage farmers to engage in agri-environmental measurMember States to establish agri-environmental measures targeted at beekeeping in their rural development programmes in order to support ‘bee-friendly’ grasslands on field margins, and to employ special crop rotation and variation;