14 Amendments of Britta REIMERS related to 2011/2108(INI)
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas ina decreased bee mortality in the number of bee colonies has been reported in both the EU and other parts of the world; whereas science and veterinary practice cannot currently provides little in the way of effective prevention or disease control against certain pests and diseases owing to insufficient research and development of new bee-health medicines in the past decades, which is the result of the limited size of the market and the consequent low interest of big pharmaceutical companies,
Amendment 26 #
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 themwhich may be 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 pesticides, 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 50 #
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 environmental factors on bee colony immune systems, defining sustainable agricultural practices and increasing non-chemical alternativesthe use of alternative forms of plant protection, 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 neededmake the allocation of funding contingent on compliance with efficiency criteria;
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Stresses the need to ensure adequate training for veterinarians, as well as regular opportunities for veterinary consultation for beekeeperthe possibility for beekeepers to consult veterinarians and the involvement of apiculture specialists in national veterinary authorities;
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 136 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Calls on the Member States to transpose and fully implement, as soon as possible, Directive 2009/128/EC on the sustainable use of pesticidelant protection products and, in particular, to promote low-pesticidelant-protection-product-input pest management and integrated pest management; in addition, calls for measures to promote training and further training in the bee-friendly use of plant protection products;
Amendment 143 #
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 pesticidelant protection products; 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 thelant protection products whose active substances in pesticides have a proven adverse effect on bee and colony health; application methods such as seed coating should also be considered;
Amendment 153 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
Amendment 162 #
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 controlbeekeepers to be informed in advance of applications of plant protection products, especially aerial chemical mosquito controls; calls, further, for beekeepers to be required to notify farmers if they set up hives in the vicinity of fields;
Amendment 168 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
Amendment 175 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. With special regard to the 2009 EFSA project entitled ‘Bee mortality and Bee Surveillance in Europe’, calls on the Commission to conduct objective research on the possible negative effeimpacts of GMO crops and monocultures on honeybee health;
Amendment 190 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
27. Calls on the Commission to harmonise rules on labelling with the provisions of the Regulation on Agricultural Quality Schemes and to introduce obligatory labelling with the country of origin for imported and EU-produced apicultural products or, in the case of mixtures of products with different origins, obligatory labelling with every country of origin;
Amendment 215 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31
Paragraph 31
Amendment 218 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32
Paragraph 32
32. Calls on all stakeholders in the beekeeping sector to take advantage of the opportunities offered by the current common agricultural policy and the upcoming reform thereof, which favourtake proper account of producer organisations throughout the agricultural sector;