46 Amendments of Marc TARABELLA related to 2017/2115(INI)
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas the beekeeping sector is hugely significant (around EUR 14.2 annually), as 84 % of plant species and 76 % of food production are dependent on pollination by bees, which also helps maintain the ecological balance and biological diversity in Europe; recalling also the importance of pollination for food security in Europe and in the world;
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas on 26 February 2016 in Kuala-Lumpur a report was published by the experts of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) which sounded the alarm on the decline in pollinators, of which the European domestic honey bee (apis mellifera) is the most widespread pollinator in the world;
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas bees are key to the preservation of biodiversity;
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B b (new)
Recital B b (new)
Bc. whereas the scientific community has noted increases in bee mortality for the past fifteen years, with this phenomenon affecting – according to the IPBES – 37% of wild and domestic bees in Europe; their extinction is having a dramatic impact on the environment (biodiversity) and also on our domestic agricultural production: the demise of the bee would, according to the French National Institute for Agricultural Research, cost EUR 150 billion worldwide, or 10% of the market value of agricultural products intended for human consumption, which attests to the need to protect pollinating insects;
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas there is a need for beekeepers to operate in harmony with the services which they carry out and to do so responsibly and professionally and in conjunction and cooperation with farmers;
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas some invasive alien species such as Varroa destructor, the small hive beetle, the Asian hornet and American foulbrood are causing widespread destruction in the European bee population and causing serious harm to beekeepersthe decline in the European bee population, the adverse effects of which extend far beyond the beekeeping sector, is mainly due, according to the scientific community, to changes in land use, intensive farming practices and the large-scale use of pesticides, invasive species (e.g. Asian hornet and American foulbrood), the proliferation of parasites including the Varroa destructor, genetic problems, the degeneration of habitats and the disappearance of many species of flowering plant;
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)
Recital G a (new)
Ga. whereas bees, as pollinators, play an important role in our food and agriculture systems and are excellent indicators of the quality of our environment that should sensitise us to agricultural practices which are more natural-resource friendly and which draw directly on the concept of agro-ecology, combining good economic performance and environmental performance to produce more and better;
Amendment 73 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
I. whereas beekeepers, agricultural producers and environmentalists also expect there to be a clear scientific consensus on all substances and other factors which are a danger to bees’ health; but whereas researchers and EFSA have already identified the dangers posed to bees by some neonicotinoids whose use, after being suspended, might be definitively banned following their re- evaluation;
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I a (new)
Recital I a (new)
Ia. stressing that the many studies conducted on neonicotinoids have highlighted their adverse health and environmental impacts on pollinators, as well as their toxicity;
Amendment 91 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J
Recital J
Amendment 127 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital P
Recital P
P. whereas consumers are aware that no more than one third of the honey they use is produced in the EU; often think they are eating honey from the EU, whereas a proportion of that honey comes from third countries and is sometimes mixed with EU honey, while some of the imported honey is adulterated;
Amendment 133 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital Q
Recital Q
Q. whereas since 2001 the amount of honey in the world’s major honey- producing regions has stagnated or decreased as a result of the poor health of bees, whilst the amount of honey in China hasand disappearance of bees, whilst honey production in China is said to have increased by over 80 % (200 000 tonnes);
Amendment 184 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital AF a (new)
Recital AF a (new)
AFa. whereas only a complete cultivation ban on GMOs will protect all bees from GM pollen and protect European consumers from honey contaminated by GM pollen;
Amendment 201 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Understands that beekeeping makes a fundamental contribution to maintaining the ecological balance and biological diversity, so that the sector must be at the heart of the common agricultural policy and of an agricultural policy reoriented towards sustainable development enabling improved biodiversity, which is indispensable to bees’ survival and repopulation;
Amendment 211 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Considers investment in technical and scientific know-how essential in the beekeeping sector, which suffers badly, in spite of its potential, from a lack of specialists, information and knowledge; investment in research must be geared towards genetic and veterinary aspects (vaccines...), given beekeepers’ very inadequate knowledge of these areas.
Amendment 213 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Proposes a 47.8 Calls on each of the Member States, as set out in Article 55 of Regulation 1308 on the Single CMO, to develop a national programme for its beekeeping sector; proposes a 50% increase inover the 2004 EU budget for national beekeeping programmes – in line with the actualorder to maintain and increase in the bee population – as compared with the 2004 level, which translates as EUR 47 million annually;s and support the production and marketing of beekeeping products.
Amendment 219 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Recalls that, in addition to national beekeeping plans, the CAP currently has a vast array of tools which can be brought to bear in support of the beekeeping sector. These include, in particular, crop diversification measures, ecological focus areas (EFAs), organic farming measures and measures to support other forms of sustainable agriculture, agro-environmental and climatic measures, measures targeting disadvantaged regions, measures in the Natura 2000 and Habitats Directive, product quality measures and those concerned with the diversification of activities on farms, investment measures to restore ecosystems, forestry measures, installation measures, the European Innovation Partnership...
Amendment 221 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Considers that the collective management of ecological focus areas with their biodiversity might be extremely useful in terms of food for bees and of their habitat; this communal management may in fact contribute to the establishment of ecological corridors (land left fallow for flowers, tree plantations...) which, by ensuring the presence of bees, allows for increased yields of crops planted alongside the EFAs through improved pollination.
Amendment 235 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Commission to include a new direct ecosystemic support scheme for beekeepers based on colony numbers in its proposals for the common agricultural policy post-2020;
Amendment 238 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Considers it necessary to develop the potential of beekeeping by further professionalising the sector, in which the vast majority of participants are amateurs (less than 5% in Europe are specialists); considers that developing beekeeping in order to produce hive products and/or swarms for repopulation provides opportunities for jobs and income for farms looking to diversify or for young people aiming to set up as beekeepers, without the need for huge investments at the time of their establishment.
Amendment 242 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Sees a need for the European Union and the Member States to implement a large-scale strategy of bee repopulation in a coordinated fashion because of the threat of extinction.
Amendment 251 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Believes that beekeeping matters should be analysed horizontally, taking into consideration animal health, agricultural policy, pesticide authorisation policy and research.
Amendment 276 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Reaffirms its support for the pilot project launched by Parliament aimed at restructuring the beekeeping sector and at the breeding and selection programme for research into Varroa resistance, which should be implemented soon.
Amendment 282 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to encourage locally- developed practices aimed at preserving bees.
Amendment 288 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 3 a (new)
Subheading 3 a (new)
underlines that bee health is based on a substantial diversity of pollen and a wide variety of nourishment of the surroundings of bees; points out that monocultural farming does not provide this necessity and therefore stands for a loss of food habitats for bees;
Amendment 309 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls on the Commission to involve all relevant drug producers in research into bee drugs and to set up a common IT platform to share best solutions and drugs with interested parties, to improve the availability of veterinary products vital to beekeeping and to strengthen the role of veterinarians in managing bee health;
Amendment 311 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls on the Commission to involve all relevant drug producers in research into bee drugs and to set up a common IT platform to share best solutions and drugs with interested parties;boost research possibilities aimed at solving the problem of parasites and bee diseases and to supplement these with a common IT platform to share best practices and make people aware of the available solutions.
Amendment 325 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Calls on the Commission to put in place tools to bolster the fight against bee diseases, introduce monitoring of domestic bee mortality, identify and evaluate the risks linked to plant protection products, and avert the risks linked to the introduction of invasive species.
Amendment 331 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Calls on the Member States and the regions to use all means possible to protect all local and regional bee varietiesstrains of Apis mellifera bees present in Europe from the undesirable spread of naturalised or invasive alien varietspecies in the EU;
Amendment 333 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Appreciates the extraordinary genetic heritage and the diversity of bee populations, which render them able to adapt to the peculiarities of any ecosystem and to the local conditions of any region; emphasises the need to maintain this genetic heritage, whose diversity is important in the fight against invasive species and diseases and which will have a long-term impact on maintaining bee populations.
Amendment 338 #
13b. Recalls the right of the Member States to set up protected areas for each honey-producing strain of the Apis mellifera bee, which is present in Europe, in connection with the UN’s 1992 Convention on Biological Diversity.
Amendment 340 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Calls on the European Food Safety Authority to carry outpursue its toxicological research (laboratory analyses and field experiments), according to a clearly- determined schedule and together with the other EU agencies concerned, into all substances and other factors which endanger bee health; likely to endanger bee health and to recommend that they be banned if they are found to be toxic; calls at the same time for alternative products or methods to be found to replace these substances which pose a risk to bees.
Amendment 356 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Urges the Commission and Member States to prohibit the use of pesticides which are harmful for bees, as for instance neonicotinoids like imidacloprid, thiamethoxam and clothianidin;
Amendment 358 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Calls on the European Food Safety Authority to draw up an international inventory to evaluate the emerging health risks in beekeeping.
Amendment 359 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Calls on the Member States to impose a Europe-wide ban on all neonicotinoid pesticides, which are largely responsible for the decline in bee populations.
Amendment 366 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 b (new)
Paragraph 14 b (new)
Amendment 381 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 c (new)
Paragraph 14 c (new)
14c. Underlines that the best protection of bees is to preserve abiotic resources, in particular soil and waters;
Amendment 384 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 d (new)
Paragraph 14 d (new)
Amendment 387 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 e (new)
Paragraph 14 e (new)
14e. Urges to protect basic ecosystem services of pollination by relying on current scientific knowledge regarding the damage and susceptibility of honey bees as well as on the precautionary principle; urges that protective measures should be extended to wild pollinators, as these play a crucial role with regard to pollination services;
Amendment 393 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 f (new)
Paragraph 14 f (new)
14f. Urges the Commission to collect analyses on the threat for wild bees in the EU and to develop strategies in order to stop the decimation of wild bees;
Amendment 396 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Expects the Member States and the Commission to force honey-producers in non-EU countries who use dishonest methods and EU packagers and traders who wilfully mix adulterated, imported honey with high-quality European honey to comply with EU law, or to penalise them;
Amendment 404 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Calls on the Commission to develop an official data base of honeys to categorise their origin using a common method of analysis.
Amendment 405 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 b (new)
Paragraph 16 b (new)
16b. Urges the Commission to ensure greater harmonisation by introducing common and binding specifications for honey production so as to facilitate the detection of fraud and guarantee the traceability of honey for consumers.
Amendment 436 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
27. Asks that the ‘blend of EC and non- EC honeys’ descriptor on labels be replaced by an indication of exactly which country or countries the honeys used in the final products come from and that these be listed in the order which corresponds to the proportions usede proportion from each of those countries, as a percentage, in the final product;
Amendment 444 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28 a (new)
Paragraph 28 a (new)
28a. Requests that the Commission amend the Honey Directive 2001/110/EC by means of a directive on apiculture products that circumscribes all such products:honey, propolis, royal jelly, beeswax, pollen pellets, bee bread and bee venom;
Amendment 456 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 a (new)
Paragraph 30 a (new)
30a. Stresses that honey is one of the agricultural products that could be distributed as part of the 'School fruit' programme; stresses the importance of compulsory educational measures aimed at raising awareness among young people and introducing them to local products, while opening up the world of farming to children;