BETA


2017/2115(INI) Prospects and challenges for the EU apiculture sector

Progress: Procedure completed

RoleCommitteeRapporteurShadows
Lead AGRI ERDŐS Norbert (icon: PPE PPE) NEKOV Momchil (icon: S&D S&D), NICHOLSON James (icon: ECR ECR), MÜLLER Ulrike (icon: ALDE ALDE), SCOTT CATO Molly (icon: Verts/ALE Verts/ALE), ZULLO Marco (icon: EFDD EFDD), LOISEAU Philippe (icon: ENF ENF)
Committee Opinion ENVI D'ORNANO Mireille (icon: ENF ENF)
Lead committee dossier:
Legal Basis:
RoP 54

Events

2018/07/23
   EC - Commission response to text adopted in plenary
Documents
2018/03/01
   EP - Results of vote in Parliament
2018/03/01
   EP - Decision by Parliament
Details

The European Parliament adopted by 560 votes to 27, with 28 abstentions, a resolution on the prospects and challenges for the EU apiculture sector.

Members stated that the beekeeping sector is vital for the EU and contributes significantly to society, both economically with around EUR 14.2 billion per year, and environmentally by maintaining the ecological balance and biological diversity, as 84 % of plant species and 76 % of food production in Europe are dependent on pollination by wild and domestic bees.

The Commission is urged to ensure the prominence of beekeeping in future agricultural policy proposals , in terms of support and simplification, research and innovation, and beekeeping education programmes.

EU support to beekeepers : Parliament called on the Commission and the Member States to provide support for the EU apiculture sector via strong policy tools and appropriate funding measures corresponding to the current bee stock. It proposed, therefore, a 50 % increase in the EU budget line earmarked for national beekeeping programmes.

Members called on the Commission to launch a study on the feasibility of a beekeeping risk management scheme as part of national beekeeping programmes, in order to deal with loss of production suffered by professional beekeepers. They suggested an allowance calculated in accordance with the average turnover of the businesses affected.

Research, training and education : Parliament called on the Commission to promote and boost European beekeeping research projects and suggested broadening and sharing beekeeping research topics and findings. It called for the setting- up of a common digital database , harmonised at EU level, for the exchange of information among beekeepers, researchers and all parties involved.

Members suggested that greater private and public investment in technical and scientific know-how is essential and should be incentivised, at national and EU level, in particular on genetic and veterinary aspects and the development of innovative bee health medicines. They also called on the Member States to ensure appropriate basic and vocational training programmes for beekeepers.

Bee health and environmental aspects : the resolution highlighted the need for the EU to take the necessary and immediate steps to implement a long-term and large-scale strategy for bee health and repopulation in order to preserve the declining wild bee stock in the EU.

The Commission is invited to:

provide the necessary incentives to encourage locally-developed practices, in order to preserve honey bee ecotypes and cultivation throughout the EU; draw up an inventory to evaluate the existing and emerging health risks at EU and international level, with the aim of establishing an action plan to combat bee mortality; progress in implementing the pilot projects on bees and other pollinators as indicators of environmental and habitat health; ensure that farm subsidies from the various CAP budget lines take account of bee-friendly practices; support EU-wide applied research through effective breeding programmes producing bee species resilient to invasive species and diseases; put in place measures to increase legal protection and financial support for local honey bee ecotypes and populations throughout the EU; involve all relevant drug producers in research into bee drugs, inter alia in order to combat Varroa destructor and set up a common IT platform in order to share best solutions and drugs with interested parties.

Chemicals harmful to bees : Parliament asked the Commission to suspend the authorisation of those pesticide active substances which endanger bee health on the basis of EFSA’s scientific findings based on field tests, until the publication of EFSA's final detailed impact assessment. Scientific research, according to a clearly defined schedule, on all substances likely to endanger the health of bees should be intensified.

Combating honey adulteration : Members insisted that full compliance of honey and other bee products with EU quality standards is guaranteed. Honey should always be identifiable along the food chain and classified according to its plant origin, whether it is a domestic or an imported product. The Commission shall develop effective laboratory testing procedures and stronger penalties shall be imposed on offenders.

Members called for the tightening-up of the traceability requirement for honey and called on the Commission amend the ‘Honey Directive’ ( 2001/110/EC ) with a view to provide clear definitions and setting out the main distinctive characteristics of all apiculture products.

Promoting bee products and therapeutic use of honey : while welcoming the ‘European Honey Breakfast initiative’, Parliament encouraged the Member States to inform children about honey .

Honey is one of the agricultural products that could be included in the ‘School fruit, vegetables and milk’ scheme. Members encouraged the Member States to boost the participation of local honey producers in the relevant school programmes. They also called on the Commission to put forward a proposal to increase annual EU support for these programmes by 50 %.

The Commission is called on to:

draw up a report on the amount of honey consumed and consumption patterns in all Member States, and also another report on the various therapeutic practices employing honey, pollen, royal jelly and bee venom in the EU; consider the voluntary introduction of the brand ‘ Honey from EU ’, designating honey originating 100 % and exclusively in the EU Member States; allocate a specific sum from the EU’s promotional budget for advertising EU honey products for consumption and medical purposes; ensure that honey and other bee products are considered as ‘ sensitive products ’ in ongoing or future negotiations for free trade agreements, since direct competition may expose the EU apiculture sector to excessive or unsustainable pressure.

Documents
2018/03/01
   EP - End of procedure in Parliament
2018/02/28
   EP - Debate in Parliament
2018/02/08
   EP - Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading
Documents
2018/02/08
   EP - Committee report tabled for plenary
Documents
2018/01/23
   EP - Vote in committee
2017/10/24
   EP - Committee opinion
Documents
2017/09/12
   EP - Amendments tabled in committee
Documents
2017/09/12
   EP - Amendments tabled in committee
Documents
2017/07/25
   EP - Committee draft report
Documents
2017/07/11
   EP - D'ORNANO Mireille (ENF) appointed as rapporteur in ENVI
2017/07/06
   EP - Committee referral announced in Parliament
2017/06/29
   EP - ERDŐS Norbert (PPE) appointed as rapporteur in AGRI

Documents

Activities

Votes

A8-0014/2018 - Norbert Erdős - Am 2 01/03/2018 12:33:12.000 #

2018/03/01 Outcome: -: 364, +: 216, 0: 33
DK SE SI EL AT LU BE FI IE CY LV MT EE HR IT NL BG CZ LT SK PT HU ES FR RO DE GB PL
Total
13
18
7
14
17
5
20
12
8
6
7
6
3
8
44
22
15
16
10
11
19
14
46
58
26
82
56
49
icon: GUE/NGL GUE/NGL
44

Denmark GUE/NGL

For (1)

1

Sweden GUE/NGL

For (1)

1

Finland GUE/NGL

For (1)

1

Ireland GUE/NGL

3

Cyprus GUE/NGL

2

Netherlands GUE/NGL

3

Czechia GUE/NGL

2

France GUE/NGL

1

United Kingdom GUE/NGL

1
icon: Verts/ALE Verts/ALE
44

Denmark Verts/ALE

For (1)

1

Sweden Verts/ALE

Abstain (1)

4

Slovenia Verts/ALE

For (1)

1

Austria Verts/ALE

2

Luxembourg Verts/ALE

For (1)

1

Belgium Verts/ALE

2

Finland Verts/ALE

For (1)

1

Latvia Verts/ALE

1

Croatia Verts/ALE

For (1)

1

Italy Verts/ALE

For (1)

1

Netherlands Verts/ALE

2

Lithuania Verts/ALE

For (1)

1

Hungary Verts/ALE

For (1)

1

Spain Verts/ALE

3

United Kingdom Verts/ALE

5
icon: EFDD EFDD
31

Sweden EFDD

2

Germany EFDD

Abstain (1)

1

Poland EFDD

1
icon: NI NI
12

Denmark NI

1

Hungary NI

1

France NI

2

Germany NI

For (1)

Against (1)

2

United Kingdom NI

Against (1)

1

Poland NI

2
icon: ENF ENF
25

Italy ENF

2

Netherlands ENF

3

United Kingdom ENF

Abstain (1)

1

Poland ENF

2
icon: ALDE ALDE
55

Sweden ALDE

Abstain (1)

2

Slovenia ALDE

For (1)

1

Austria ALDE

Against (1)

1

Finland ALDE

For (1)

3

Ireland ALDE

Abstain (1)

1

Latvia ALDE

1

Estonia ALDE

Against (1)

1

Croatia ALDE

For (1)

Against (1)

2

Portugal ALDE

1

Romania ALDE

For (1)

Against (1)

2

Germany ALDE

For (1)

3

United Kingdom ALDE

1
icon: ECR ECR
57

Finland ECR

Against (1)

2

Cyprus ECR

Against (1)

1

Latvia ECR

For (1)

1

Croatia ECR

Against (1)

1

Italy ECR

Against (1)

1

Netherlands ECR

Against (1)

1

Bulgaria ECR

Against (1)

2

Czechia ECR

2

Lithuania ECR

Against (1)

1

Slovakia ECR

Against (1)

2

Romania ECR

Against (1)

1

Germany ECR

For (1)

4
icon: S&D S&D
158

Greece S&D

3

Luxembourg S&D

Against (1)

1

Finland S&D

2

Cyprus S&D

For (1)

Against (1)

2

Latvia S&D

Against (1)

1

Malta S&D

Abstain (1)

3

Estonia S&D

Against (1)

1

Netherlands S&D

3

Czechia S&D

4

Lithuania S&D

2

Slovakia S&D

For (1)

3
4
icon: PPE PPE
186

Denmark PPE

For (1)

1

Luxembourg PPE

3

Belgium PPE

4

Finland PPE

3

Ireland PPE

Abstain (1)

4

Cyprus PPE

Against (1)

1

Estonia PPE

Against (1)

1

United Kingdom PPE

2

A8-0014/2018 - Norbert Erdős - Résolution 01/03/2018 12:33:26.000 #

2018/03/01 Outcome: +: 560, 0: 28, -: 27
DE FR ES IT PL RO BE PT AT EL GB BG CZ SE NL FI DK HU SK LT IE HR SI CY LV LU MT EE
Total
80
56
47
44
48
27
20
19
17
19
56
15
17
18
22
13
13
13
11
9
8
9
7
6
7
4
6
3
icon: PPE PPE
186

United Kingdom PPE

2

Denmark PPE

For (1)

1

Cyprus PPE

1

Luxembourg PPE

3

Malta PPE

Against (1)

3

Estonia PPE

For (1)

1
icon: S&D S&D
158

Czechia S&D

Against (1)

4

Netherlands S&D

3

Cyprus S&D

2

Latvia S&D

1

Luxembourg S&D

For (1)

1

Malta S&D

3

Estonia S&D

For (1)

1
icon: ALDE ALDE
55

Germany ALDE

3

Romania ALDE

2

Portugal ALDE

1

Austria ALDE

For (1)

1

United Kingdom ALDE

1

Sweden ALDE

2

Lithuania ALDE

2

Ireland ALDE

For (1)

1

Croatia ALDE

2

Slovenia ALDE

For (1)

1

Latvia ALDE

1

Estonia ALDE

For (1)

1
icon: GUE/NGL GUE/NGL
45

France GUE/NGL

1

United Kingdom GUE/NGL

1

Czechia GUE/NGL

2

Sweden GUE/NGL

For (1)

1

Netherlands GUE/NGL

3

Finland GUE/NGL

For (1)

1

Denmark GUE/NGL

For (1)

1

Ireland GUE/NGL

3

Cyprus GUE/NGL

2
icon: ECR ECR
57

Italy ECR

1

Romania ECR

For (1)

1

Greece ECR

For (1)

1

Bulgaria ECR

2

Czechia ECR

2

Netherlands ECR

For (1)

1
2

Slovakia ECR

2

Lithuania ECR

1

Croatia ECR

For (1)

1

Cyprus ECR

1

Latvia ECR

For (1)

1
icon: Verts/ALE Verts/ALE
42

Spain Verts/ALE

3

Italy Verts/ALE

For (1)

1

Belgium Verts/ALE

2

Austria Verts/ALE

2

United Kingdom Verts/ALE

5

Netherlands Verts/ALE

2

Finland Verts/ALE

For (1)

1

Denmark Verts/ALE

For (1)

1

Hungary Verts/ALE

For (1)

1

Lithuania Verts/ALE

For (1)

1

Croatia Verts/ALE

For (1)

1

Slovenia Verts/ALE

For (1)

1

Latvia Verts/ALE

1
icon: ENF ENF
25

Italy ENF

2

Poland ENF

2

Romania ENF

1

United Kingdom ENF

Against (1)

1

Netherlands ENF

3
icon: NI NI
14

Germany NI

2

France NI

2

Poland NI

Against (1)

2

United Kingdom NI

Abstain (1)

1

Denmark NI

1

Hungary NI

1
icon: EFDD EFDD
32

Germany EFDD

Abstain (1)

1

Poland EFDD

1

Sweden EFDD

2
AmendmentsDossier
597 2017/2115(INI)
2017/09/12 AGRI 486 amendments...
source: 610.538
2017/10/04 ENVI 111 amendments...
source: 612.040

History

(these mark the time of scraping, not the official date of the change)

docs/4
date
2018-02-08T00:00:00
docs
url: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/A-8-2018-0014_EN.html title: A8-0014/2018
type
Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading
body
EP
events/2/summary
  • The Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development adopted an own-initiative report by Norbert ERDŐS (EPP, HU) on the prospects and challenges for the EU apiculture sector.
  • The report stressed that honey bees, alongside wild bees and other pollinators, perform fundamental ecosystem and agriculture services by pollinating flowers, including crops, without which European agriculture would not exist.
  • The Commission is urged to ensure the prominence of beekeeping in future agricultural policy proposals , in terms of support and simplification, research and innovation, and beekeeping education programmes.
  • EU support to beekeepers : the report called on the Commission and the Member States to provide support for the EU apiculture sector via strong policy tools and appropriate funding measures corresponding to the current bee stock. It proposed, therefore, a 50 % increase in the EU budget line earmarked for national beekeeping programmes.
  • Members called on the Commission to launch a study on the feasibility of a beekeeping risk management scheme as part of national beekeeping programmes, in order to deal with loss of production suffered by professional beekeepers. They suggested an allowance calculated in accordance with the average turnover of the businesses affected.
  • Research, training and education : Members suggested broadening and sharing beekeeping research topics and findings. They called for the setting- up of a common digital database , harmonised at EU level, for the exchange of information among beekeepers, researchers and all parties involved.
  • The report called on the Commission to promote and boost European beekeeping research projects , while stressing the need to encourage private and public investment in technical and scientific know-how at national and EU level. It called on the Member States to ensure appropriate basic and vocational training programmes for beekeepers.
  • Bee health and environmental aspects : the report highlighted the need for the EU to take the necessary and immediate steps to implement a long-term and large-scale strategy for bee health and repopulation in order to preserve the declining wild bee stock in the EU.
  • The Commission is invited to:
  • provide the necessary incentives to encourage locally-developed practices, in order to preserve honey bee ecotypes and cultivation throughout the EU; draw up an inventory to evaluate the existing and emerging health risks at EU and international level, with the aim of establishing an action plan to combat bee mortality; progress in implementing the pilot projects on bees and other pollinators as indicators of environmental and habitat health; ensure that farm subsidies from the various CAP budget lines take account of bee-friendly practices; support EU-wide applied research through effective breeding programmes producing bee species resilient to invasive species and diseases; involve all relevant drug producers in research into bee drugs, inter alia in order to combat Varroa destructor and set up a common IT platform in order to share best solutions and drugs with interested parties.
  • Chemicals harmful to bees : the report asked the Commission to suspend the authorisation of those pesticide active substances which endanger bee health on the basis of EFSA’s scientific findings based on field tests, until the publication of EFSA's final detailed impact assessment. Scientific research, according to a clearly defined schedule, on all substances likely to endanger the health of bees should be intensified.
  • Combating honey adulteration : Members considered that honey should always be identifiable along the food supply chain and should be classifiable according to its plant origin, irrespective of whether it is a domestic or an imported product, except in cases of direct transactions between producer and consumer. They called for the tightening-up of the traceability requirement for honey and called on the Commission amend the ‘Honey Directive’ ( 2001/110/EC ) with a view to provide clear definitions and setting out the main distinctive characteristics of all apiculture products.
  • Promoting bee products and therapeutic use of honey : while welcoming the ‘European Honey Breakfast initiative’, the report encouraged the Member States to inform children about honey .
  • Honey is one of the agricultural products that could be included in the ‘School fruit, vegetables and milk’ scheme. Members encouraged the Member States to boost the participation of local honey producers in the relevant school programmes. They also called on the Commission to put forward a proposal to increase annual EU support for these programmes by 50 %.
  • The Commission is called on to:
  • draw up a report on the amount of honey consumed and consumption patterns in all Member States, and also another report on the various therapeutic practices employing honey, pollen, royal jelly and bee venom in the EU; consider the voluntary introduction of the brand ‘ Honey from EU ’, designating honey originating 100 % and exclusively in the EU Member States; allocate a specific sum from the EU’s promotional budget for advertising EU honey products for consumption and medical purposes; ensure that honey and other bee products are considered as ‘ sensitive products ’ in ongoing or future negotiations for free trade agreements, since direct competition may expose the EU apiculture sector to excessive or unsustainable pressure.
events/3/docs
  • url: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/CRE-8-2018-02-28-TOC_EN.html title: Debate in Parliament
committees/0/shadows/3
name
SENRA RODRÍGUEZ Maria Lidia
group
European United Left - Nordic Green Left
abbr
GUE/NGL
docs/0/docs/0/url
Old
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=COMPARL&mode=XML&language=EN&reference=PE607.976
New
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/AGRI-PR-607976_EN.html
docs/1/docs/0/url
Old
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=COMPARL&mode=XML&language=EN&reference=PE610.538
New
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/AGRI-AM-610538_EN.html
docs/2/docs/0/url
Old
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=COMPARL&mode=XML&language=EN&reference=PE610.608
New
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/AGRI-AM-610608_EN.html
docs/3/docs/0/url
Old
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=COMPARL&mode=XML&language=EN&reference=PE609.657&secondRef=02
New
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/ENVI-AD-609657_EN.html
events/0/type
Old
Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
New
Committee referral announced in Parliament
events/1/type
Old
Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
New
Vote in committee
events/2
date
2018-02-08T00:00:00
type
Committee report tabled for plenary
body
EP
docs
url: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/A-8-2018-0014_EN.html title: A8-0014/2018
summary
events/2
date
2018-02-08T00:00:00
type
Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading
body
EP
docs
url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/A-8-2018-0014_EN.html title: A8-0014/2018
summary
events/3/docs
  • url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?secondRef=TOC&language=EN&reference=20180228&type=CRE title: Debate in Parliament
events/5
date
2018-03-01T00:00:00
type
Decision by Parliament
body
EP
docs
url: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/TA-8-2018-0057_EN.html title: T8-0057/2018
summary
events/5
date
2018-03-01T00:00:00
type
Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
body
EP
docs
url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/TA-8-2018-0057_EN.html title: T8-0057/2018
summary
procedure/Modified legal basis
Rules of Procedure EP 159
procedure/Other legal basis
Rules of Procedure EP 159
docs/4/body
EC
events/2/docs/0/url
Old
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=REPORT&mode=XML&reference=A8-2018-0014&language=EN
New
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/A-8-2018-0014_EN.html
events/5/docs/0/url
Old
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=TA&language=EN&reference=P8-TA-2018-0057
New
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/TA-8-2018-0057_EN.html
committees/0
type
Responsible Committee
body
EP
associated
False
committee_full
Agriculture and Rural Development
committee
AGRI
rapporteur
name: ERDŐS Norbert date: 2017-06-29T00:00:00 group: European People's Party (Christian Democrats) abbr: PPE
shadows
committees/0
type
Responsible Committee
body
EP
associated
False
committee_full
Agriculture and Rural Development
committee
AGRI
date
2017-06-29T00:00:00
rapporteur
name: ERDŐS Norbert group: European People's Party (Christian Democrats) abbr: PPE
shadows
committees/1
type
Committee Opinion
body
EP
associated
False
committee_full
Environment, Public Health and Food Safety
committee
ENVI
rapporteur
name: D'ORNANO Mireille date: 2017-07-11T00:00:00 group: Europe of Nations and Freedom abbr: ENF
committees/1
type
Committee Opinion
body
EP
associated
False
committee_full
Environment, Public Health and Food Safety
committee
ENVI
date
2017-07-11T00:00:00
rapporteur
name: D'ORNANO Mireille group: Europe of Nations and Freedom abbr: ENF
activities
  • date: 2017-07-06T00:00:00 body: EP type: Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading committees: body: EP shadows: group: S&D name: NEKOV Momchil group: ECR name: NICHOLSON James group: ALDE name: MÜLLER Ulrike group: GUE/NGL name: SENRA RODRÍGUEZ Maria Lidia group: Verts/ALE name: SCOTT CATO Molly group: EFD name: ZULLO Marco group: ENF name: LOISEAU Philippe responsible: True committee: AGRI date: 2017-06-29T00:00:00 committee_full: Agriculture and Rural Development rapporteur: group: EPP name: ERDŐS Norbert body: EP responsible: False committee: ENVI date: 2017-07-11T00:00:00 committee_full: Environment, Public Health and Food Safety rapporteur: group: ENF name: D'ORNANO Mireille
  • date: 2018-01-23T00:00:00 body: EP type: Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading committees: body: EP shadows: group: S&D name: NEKOV Momchil group: ECR name: NICHOLSON James group: ALDE name: MÜLLER Ulrike group: GUE/NGL name: SENRA RODRÍGUEZ Maria Lidia group: Verts/ALE name: SCOTT CATO Molly group: EFD name: ZULLO Marco group: ENF name: LOISEAU Philippe responsible: True committee: AGRI date: 2017-06-29T00:00:00 committee_full: Agriculture and Rural Development rapporteur: group: EPP name: ERDŐS Norbert body: EP responsible: False committee: ENVI date: 2017-07-11T00:00:00 committee_full: Environment, Public Health and Food Safety rapporteur: group: ENF name: D'ORNANO Mireille
  • date: 2018-02-08T00:00:00 docs: url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=REPORT&mode=XML&reference=A8-2018-0014&language=EN type: Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading title: A8-0014/2018 body: EP type: Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading
  • date: 2018-02-28T00:00:00 docs: url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?secondRef=TOC&language=EN&reference=20180228&type=CRE type: Debate in Parliament title: Debate in Parliament body: EP type: Debate in Parliament
  • date: 2018-03-01T00:00:00 docs: url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/popups/sda.do?id=30674&l=en type: Results of vote in Parliament title: Results of vote in Parliament url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=TA&language=EN&reference=P8-TA-2018-0057 type: Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading title: T8-0057/2018 body: EP type: Results of vote in Parliament
commission
  • body: EC dg: Agriculture and Rural Development commissioner: HOGAN Phil
committees/0
type
Responsible Committee
body
EP
associated
False
committee_full
Agriculture and Rural Development
committee
AGRI
date
2017-06-29T00:00:00
rapporteur
name: ERDŐS Norbert group: European People's Party (Christian Democrats) abbr: PPE
shadows
committees/0
body
EP
shadows
responsible
True
committee
AGRI
date
2017-06-29T00:00:00
committee_full
Agriculture and Rural Development
rapporteur
group: EPP name: ERDŐS Norbert
committees/1
type
Committee Opinion
body
EP
associated
False
committee_full
Environment, Public Health and Food Safety
committee
ENVI
date
2017-07-11T00:00:00
rapporteur
name: D'ORNANO Mireille group: Europe of Nations and Freedom abbr: ENF
committees/1
body
EP
responsible
False
committee
ENVI
date
2017-07-11T00:00:00
committee_full
Environment, Public Health and Food Safety
rapporteur
group: ENF name: D'ORNANO Mireille
docs
  • date: 2017-07-25T00:00:00 docs: url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=COMPARL&mode=XML&language=EN&reference=PE607.976 title: PE607.976 type: Committee draft report body: EP
  • date: 2017-09-12T00:00:00 docs: url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=COMPARL&mode=XML&language=EN&reference=PE610.538 title: PE610.538 type: Amendments tabled in committee body: EP
  • date: 2017-09-12T00:00:00 docs: url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=COMPARL&mode=XML&language=EN&reference=PE610.608 title: PE610.608 type: Amendments tabled in committee body: EP
  • date: 2017-10-24T00:00:00 docs: url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=COMPARL&mode=XML&language=EN&reference=PE609.657&secondRef=02 title: PE609.657 committee: ENVI type: Committee opinion body: EP
  • date: 2018-07-23T00:00:00 docs: url: /oeil/spdoc.do?i=30674&j=0&l=en title: SP(2018)292 type: Commission response to text adopted in plenary
events
  • date: 2017-07-06T00:00:00 type: Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading body: EP
  • date: 2018-01-23T00:00:00 type: Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading body: EP
  • date: 2018-02-08T00:00:00 type: Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading body: EP docs: url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=REPORT&mode=XML&reference=A8-2018-0014&language=EN title: A8-0014/2018 summary: The Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development adopted an own-initiative report by Norbert ERDŐS (EPP, HU) on the prospects and challenges for the EU apiculture sector. The report stressed that honey bees, alongside wild bees and other pollinators, perform fundamental ecosystem and agriculture services by pollinating flowers, including crops, without which European agriculture would not exist. The Commission is urged to ensure the prominence of beekeeping in future agricultural policy proposals , in terms of support and simplification, research and innovation, and beekeeping education programmes. EU support to beekeepers : the report called on the Commission and the Member States to provide support for the EU apiculture sector via strong policy tools and appropriate funding measures corresponding to the current bee stock. It proposed, therefore, a 50 % increase in the EU budget line earmarked for national beekeeping programmes. Members called on the Commission to launch a study on the feasibility of a beekeeping risk management scheme as part of national beekeeping programmes, in order to deal with loss of production suffered by professional beekeepers. They suggested an allowance calculated in accordance with the average turnover of the businesses affected. Research, training and education : Members suggested broadening and sharing beekeeping research topics and findings. They called for the setting- up of a common digital database , harmonised at EU level, for the exchange of information among beekeepers, researchers and all parties involved. The report called on the Commission to promote and boost European beekeeping research projects , while stressing the need to encourage private and public investment in technical and scientific know-how at national and EU level. It called on the Member States to ensure appropriate basic and vocational training programmes for beekeepers. Bee health and environmental aspects : the report highlighted the need for the EU to take the necessary and immediate steps to implement a long-term and large-scale strategy for bee health and repopulation in order to preserve the declining wild bee stock in the EU. The Commission is invited to: provide the necessary incentives to encourage locally-developed practices, in order to preserve honey bee ecotypes and cultivation throughout the EU; draw up an inventory to evaluate the existing and emerging health risks at EU and international level, with the aim of establishing an action plan to combat bee mortality; progress in implementing the pilot projects on bees and other pollinators as indicators of environmental and habitat health; ensure that farm subsidies from the various CAP budget lines take account of bee-friendly practices; support EU-wide applied research through effective breeding programmes producing bee species resilient to invasive species and diseases; involve all relevant drug producers in research into bee drugs, inter alia in order to combat Varroa destructor and set up a common IT platform in order to share best solutions and drugs with interested parties. Chemicals harmful to bees : the report asked the Commission to suspend the authorisation of those pesticide active substances which endanger bee health on the basis of EFSA’s scientific findings based on field tests, until the publication of EFSA's final detailed impact assessment. Scientific research, according to a clearly defined schedule, on all substances likely to endanger the health of bees should be intensified. Combating honey adulteration : Members considered that honey should always be identifiable along the food supply chain and should be classifiable according to its plant origin, irrespective of whether it is a domestic or an imported product, except in cases of direct transactions between producer and consumer. They called for the tightening-up of the traceability requirement for honey and called on the Commission amend the ‘Honey Directive’ ( 2001/110/EC ) with a view to provide clear definitions and setting out the main distinctive characteristics of all apiculture products. Promoting bee products and therapeutic use of honey : while welcoming the ‘European Honey Breakfast initiative’, the report encouraged the Member States to inform children about honey . Honey is one of the agricultural products that could be included in the ‘School fruit, vegetables and milk’ scheme. Members encouraged the Member States to boost the participation of local honey producers in the relevant school programmes. They also called on the Commission to put forward a proposal to increase annual EU support for these programmes by 50 %. The Commission is called on to: draw up a report on the amount of honey consumed and consumption patterns in all Member States, and also another report on the various therapeutic practices employing honey, pollen, royal jelly and bee venom in the EU; consider the voluntary introduction of the brand ‘ Honey from EU ’, designating honey originating 100 % and exclusively in the EU Member States; allocate a specific sum from the EU’s promotional budget for advertising EU honey products for consumption and medical purposes; ensure that honey and other bee products are considered as ‘ sensitive products ’ in ongoing or future negotiations for free trade agreements, since direct competition may expose the EU apiculture sector to excessive or unsustainable pressure.
  • date: 2018-02-28T00:00:00 type: Debate in Parliament body: EP docs: url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?secondRef=TOC&language=EN&reference=20180228&type=CRE title: Debate in Parliament
  • date: 2018-03-01T00:00:00 type: Results of vote in Parliament body: EP docs: url: https://oeil.secure.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/popups/sda.do?id=30674&l=en title: Results of vote in Parliament
  • date: 2018-03-01T00:00:00 type: Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading body: EP docs: url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=TA&language=EN&reference=P8-TA-2018-0057 title: T8-0057/2018 summary: The European Parliament adopted by 560 votes to 27, with 28 abstentions, a resolution on the prospects and challenges for the EU apiculture sector. Members stated that the beekeeping sector is vital for the EU and contributes significantly to society, both economically with around EUR 14.2 billion per year, and environmentally by maintaining the ecological balance and biological diversity, as 84 % of plant species and 76 % of food production in Europe are dependent on pollination by wild and domestic bees. The Commission is urged to ensure the prominence of beekeeping in future agricultural policy proposals , in terms of support and simplification, research and innovation, and beekeeping education programmes. EU support to beekeepers : Parliament called on the Commission and the Member States to provide support for the EU apiculture sector via strong policy tools and appropriate funding measures corresponding to the current bee stock. It proposed, therefore, a 50 % increase in the EU budget line earmarked for national beekeeping programmes. Members called on the Commission to launch a study on the feasibility of a beekeeping risk management scheme as part of national beekeeping programmes, in order to deal with loss of production suffered by professional beekeepers. They suggested an allowance calculated in accordance with the average turnover of the businesses affected. Research, training and education : Parliament called on the Commission to promote and boost European beekeeping research projects and suggested broadening and sharing beekeeping research topics and findings. It called for the setting- up of a common digital database , harmonised at EU level, for the exchange of information among beekeepers, researchers and all parties involved. Members suggested that greater private and public investment in technical and scientific know-how is essential and should be incentivised, at national and EU level, in particular on genetic and veterinary aspects and the development of innovative bee health medicines. They also called on the Member States to ensure appropriate basic and vocational training programmes for beekeepers. Bee health and environmental aspects : the resolution highlighted the need for the EU to take the necessary and immediate steps to implement a long-term and large-scale strategy for bee health and repopulation in order to preserve the declining wild bee stock in the EU. The Commission is invited to: provide the necessary incentives to encourage locally-developed practices, in order to preserve honey bee ecotypes and cultivation throughout the EU; draw up an inventory to evaluate the existing and emerging health risks at EU and international level, with the aim of establishing an action plan to combat bee mortality; progress in implementing the pilot projects on bees and other pollinators as indicators of environmental and habitat health; ensure that farm subsidies from the various CAP budget lines take account of bee-friendly practices; support EU-wide applied research through effective breeding programmes producing bee species resilient to invasive species and diseases; put in place measures to increase legal protection and financial support for local honey bee ecotypes and populations throughout the EU; involve all relevant drug producers in research into bee drugs, inter alia in order to combat Varroa destructor and set up a common IT platform in order to share best solutions and drugs with interested parties. Chemicals harmful to bees : Parliament asked the Commission to suspend the authorisation of those pesticide active substances which endanger bee health on the basis of EFSA’s scientific findings based on field tests, until the publication of EFSA's final detailed impact assessment. Scientific research, according to a clearly defined schedule, on all substances likely to endanger the health of bees should be intensified. Combating honey adulteration : Members insisted that full compliance of honey and other bee products with EU quality standards is guaranteed. Honey should always be identifiable along the food chain and classified according to its plant origin, whether it is a domestic or an imported product. The Commission shall develop effective laboratory testing procedures and stronger penalties shall be imposed on offenders. Members called for the tightening-up of the traceability requirement for honey and called on the Commission amend the ‘Honey Directive’ ( 2001/110/EC ) with a view to provide clear definitions and setting out the main distinctive characteristics of all apiculture products. Promoting bee products and therapeutic use of honey : while welcoming the ‘European Honey Breakfast initiative’, Parliament encouraged the Member States to inform children about honey . Honey is one of the agricultural products that could be included in the ‘School fruit, vegetables and milk’ scheme. Members encouraged the Member States to boost the participation of local honey producers in the relevant school programmes. They also called on the Commission to put forward a proposal to increase annual EU support for these programmes by 50 %. The Commission is called on to: draw up a report on the amount of honey consumed and consumption patterns in all Member States, and also another report on the various therapeutic practices employing honey, pollen, royal jelly and bee venom in the EU; consider the voluntary introduction of the brand ‘ Honey from EU ’, designating honey originating 100 % and exclusively in the EU Member States; allocate a specific sum from the EU’s promotional budget for advertising EU honey products for consumption and medical purposes; ensure that honey and other bee products are considered as ‘ sensitive products ’ in ongoing or future negotiations for free trade agreements, since direct competition may expose the EU apiculture sector to excessive or unsustainable pressure.
  • date: 2018-03-01T00:00:00 type: End of procedure in Parliament body: EP
links
other
  • body: EC dg: url: http://ec.europa.eu/info/departments/agriculture-and-rural-development_en title: Agriculture and Rural Development commissioner: HOGAN Phil
procedure/Modified legal basis
Old
Rules of Procedure EP 150
New
Rules of Procedure EP 159
procedure/dossier_of_the_committee
Old
AGRI/8/10350
New
  • AGRI/8/10350
procedure/legal_basis/0
Rules of Procedure EP 54
procedure/legal_basis/0
Rules of Procedure EP 52
procedure/subject
Old
  • 3.10.04 Livestock farming
New
3.10.04
Livestock farming
activities/1/committees
  • body: EP shadows: group: S&D name: NEKOV Momchil group: ECR name: NICHOLSON James group: ALDE name: MÜLLER Ulrike group: GUE/NGL name: SENRA RODRÍGUEZ Maria Lidia group: Verts/ALE name: SCOTT CATO Molly group: EFD name: ZULLO Marco group: ENF name: LOISEAU Philippe responsible: True committee: AGRI date: 2017-06-29T00:00:00 committee_full: Agriculture and Rural Development rapporteur: group: EPP name: ERDŐS Norbert
  • body: EP responsible: False committee: ENVI date: 2017-07-11T00:00:00 committee_full: Environment, Public Health and Food Safety rapporteur: group: ENF name: D'ORNANO Mireille
activities/1/date
Old
2017-12-12T00:00:00
New
2018-01-23T00:00:00
activities/1/type
Old
Vote in plenary scheduled
New
Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
activities/2
date
2018-02-08T00:00:00
docs
url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=REPORT&mode=XML&reference=A8-2018-0014&language=EN type: Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading title: A8-0014/2018
body
EP
type
Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading
activities/3/date
Old
2017-12-11T00:00:00
New
2018-02-28T00:00:00
activities/3/docs
  • url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?secondRef=TOC&language=EN&reference=20180228&type=CRE type: Debate in Parliament title: Debate in Parliament
activities/3/type
Old
Debate in plenary scheduled
New
Debate in Parliament
activities/4
date
2018-03-01T00:00:00
docs
body
EP
type
Results of vote in Parliament
procedure/Modified legal basis
Rules of Procedure EP 150
procedure/legal_basis/0
Old
Rules of Procedure of the European Parliament EP 052
New
Rules of Procedure EP 52
procedure/stage_reached
Old
Awaiting committee decision
New
Procedure completed
activities/1/type
Old
Indicative plenary sitting date, 1st reading/single reading
New
Debate in plenary scheduled
activities/2
date
2017-12-12T00:00:00
body
EP
type
Vote in plenary scheduled
activities/1
date
2017-12-11T00:00:00
body
EP
type
Indicative plenary sitting date, 1st reading/single reading
other/0
body
EC
dg
commissioner
HOGAN Phil
activities/0/committees/1/date
2017-07-11T00:00:00
activities/0/committees/1/rapporteur
  • group: ENF name: D'ORNANO Mireille
committees/1/date
2017-07-11T00:00:00
committees/1/rapporteur
  • group: ENF name: D'ORNANO Mireille
activities/0/committees/0/shadows/4
group
Verts/ALE
name
SCOTT CATO Molly
activities/0/committees/0/shadows/6
group
ENF
name
LOISEAU Philippe
committees/0/shadows/4
group
Verts/ALE
name
SCOTT CATO Molly
committees/0/shadows/6
group
ENF
name
LOISEAU Philippe
activities
  • date: 2017-07-06T00:00:00 body: EP type: Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading committees: body: EP shadows: group: S&D name: NEKOV Momchil group: ECR name: NICHOLSON James group: ALDE name: MÜLLER Ulrike group: GUE/NGL name: SENRA RODRÍGUEZ Maria Lidia group: EFD name: ZULLO Marco responsible: True committee: AGRI date: 2017-06-29T00:00:00 committee_full: Agriculture and Rural Development rapporteur: group: EPP name: ERDŐS Norbert body: EP responsible: False committee_full: Environment, Public Health and Food Safety committee: ENVI
committees
  • body: EP shadows: group: S&D name: NEKOV Momchil group: ECR name: NICHOLSON James group: ALDE name: MÜLLER Ulrike group: GUE/NGL name: SENRA RODRÍGUEZ Maria Lidia group: EFD name: ZULLO Marco responsible: True committee: AGRI date: 2017-06-29T00:00:00 committee_full: Agriculture and Rural Development rapporteur: group: EPP name: ERDŐS Norbert
  • body: EP responsible: False committee_full: Environment, Public Health and Food Safety committee: ENVI
links
other
    procedure
    dossier_of_the_committee
    AGRI/8/10350
    reference
    2017/2115(INI)
    title
    Prospects and challenges for the EU apiculture sector
    legal_basis
    Rules of Procedure of the European Parliament EP 052
    stage_reached
    Awaiting committee decision
    subtype
    Initiative
    type
    INI - Own-initiative procedure
    subject
    3.10.04 Livestock farming