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Motion for a resolution
Recital A

A. whereas beekeeping as an economic and social activity plays a crucial role in the sustainable development of rural areas and the balance of natural ecosystems and may creates ‘green jobs’,

2011/08/31
Committee: AGRI

Maria do Céu PATRÃO NEVES

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas increased bee mortality has been reported in both the EU and other parts of the world; whereas science and veterinary practice cannot currently provide 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; whereas the limited number of medicines available to fight the Varroa destructor mite are in many cases no longer effective,

2011/08/31
Committee: AGRI

Maria do Céu PATRÃO NEVES

Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)

Da. whereas the health of individual bees and colonies is also affected by numerous lethal and sub-lethal factors such as beekeeping practices that use subspecies outside their natural environment and/or colonies, and harmful selection methods that reduce swarming ability and aggressivity and significantly increase the vulnerability of the species, which is at the same time faced with the presence of invasive species,

2011/08/31
Committee: AGRI

Maria do Céu PATRÃO NEVES

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 1 a (new)

Conservation of bee biodiversity 1. Urges the Commission, within the framework of Council Directive 92/43/EEC of 21 May 1992 (Habitats Directive) to define the conservation status of the species Apis mellifera and, where appropriate, to include it in the Annexes to the Directive; calls on the Commission, given the urgent need to conserve the species Apis mellifera and the various subspecies that occur in the European Union, to look into the possibility of creating a specific programme or regulation within the Life+ financial instrument that will make it possible to establish a pan-European project to restore wild populations of this species; 2. Urges the Commission, within the framework of Council Directive 92/65/EEC of 13 July 1992, to ban, at least temporarily, the import from third countries of live bees and species of the genus Bombus sp. in order to prevent the introduction of exotic diseases, particularly given that there is no shortage of genetic resources for apiculture in the European Union, bearing in mind the main subspecies from which the breeds and varieties currently used in apiculture originated;

2011/08/31
Committee: AGRI

Maria do Céu PATRÃO NEVES

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 5

Measures in connection with the conservation of biodiversity and the forthcoming reform of the Common Agricultural Policy

2011/08/31
Committee: AGRI

Maria do Céu PATRÃO NEVES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29 a (new)

29a. Urges the Commission, within the framework of the EU's new biodiversity strategy, to make financial resources available for apiculture as a priority and/or at a higher rate in all projects and actions submitted under the CAP dealing exclusively with subspecies and eco-types of Apis mellifera native to each region;

2011/08/31
Committee: AGRI

Activities of Maria do Céu PATRÃO NEVES related to 2011/2108(INI)

Plenary speeches (1)

Amendments (6)

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