12 Amendments of Michel DANTIN related to 2011/2108(INI)
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas beekeeping and biodiversity are mutually dependent; whereas, via pollination, bee colonies provide important environmental, economic and social public goods, thus ensuring food security and maintaining biodiversity; whereas ‘bee pastures’ and, diverse foraging grounds and certain crops (rape, sunflowers, etc.) provide bees with the rich nutrition necessary to maintain their immune defences and stay healthy,
Amendment 25 #
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 efficientsufficiently efficient, due to the emergence of resistance; whereas the toxic agents in certain pesticides, changing climatic and environmental conditions, loss of plant biodiversity, land use change, possible mismanaged beekeeping practices and the presence of invasive species weaken colonies’ immune systems and favour opportunistic pathologies,
Amendment 32 #
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, and whereas numerous environmental factors have become handicaps,
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas, because active substances and medicines are not metabolised by bees and may end up in honey, because European producers rely on cleand consumers deman,d 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 systemthey encounter phenomena of resistance to veterinary products, minimal use of veterinary products is advocated,
Amendment 53 #
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 beekeeping and farming practices and environmental factors on bee colony immune systems, defining sustainable agricultural practices and increasing non-chemical athe search for effective methods of detecting adulternativeson of honey, 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 99 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Stresses the need to supporttep up training programmes for beekeepers and farmers on disease prevention, treatment and control, botanical knowledge and the impact of pesticidfarming practices, with the purpose of encouraging the acquisition of qualifications; considers it necessary to develop the expertise of farmers and agricultural technicians in the field of techniques which make it possible to combine agriculture and biodiversity, thus promoting the health of the bee population;
Amendment 130 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Invites the Commission to improve risk assessment methodology for pesticides, which should focus on both the individual insect and the entire colony, and to ensure free access to all the ecotoxicologicaladministrative documents and studies included in the authorisation dossiers;
Amendment 142 #
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 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;for risk assessments to systematically take account of tests under real conditions, with harmonised protocols; considers that application methods such as seed coating should also be considered;
Amendment 164 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Calls, in a spirit of dialogue between beekeepers and agricultural stakeholders, 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; insecticidal treatment operations and the possibility of obtaining information about the position of hives when these operations are performed (monitoring of transhumance, GPS position-finding);
Amendment 182 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Calls for the establishment of No Action Levels (NALs) or Reference Points for Action (RPAs) on antibioa provisional quantification limit of 15 ppb to be set for veterinary products authorised in the European Union for all laboratories in the EU in view of the existing analysis methods and practices in honeythe various Member States;
Amendment 208 #
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; recommends encourageing farmers to engage in agri-environmental measures in order to support ‘bee-friendly’ grasslands on field margins, mploy special crop rotation and variation and to take agri-environmental measures in order, by means of better management of both farmland and non- agricultural land, to employ special crop rotation and variatipromote close, available forage for bees, appropriate to their diet, according to the seasons;
Amendment 214 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 a (new)
Paragraph 30 a (new)
30a. Recalls that measures to promote biodiversity are also vital in the non-farm sector; notes that green spaces along roads, verges of railway lines, forest cuttings for energy transmission networks and public and private gardens cover substantial areas where rational management methods can considerably increase pollen and nectar resources for bees and pollinating insects; considers that this development should be pursued in the context of harmonious land management which in particular maintains road safety;