8 Amendments of Alfreds RUBIKS related to 2011/2108(INI)
Amendment 70 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Commission to promote the setting up of appropriate national surveillance systems and to develop harmonised standards at EU level to allow comparison; stresses the need for uniform identification and registration of bee hives, whose operation should be funded by means of support payments to beekeepers for bee colonies who have submitted a statistical overview of the number of bee colonies, quantitative and qualitative indicators and bees’ health;
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Welcomes the establishment of the EU reference laboratory for bee health, which should focus on activities not covered by existing expert networks or national laboratories, and should involve them, increasing the human resource capacity and funding of existing networks of experts and existing laboratories and synthesise the integrated knowledge stemming from their research;
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Stresses the need to support diagnostic laboratories and field tests at a national level and points out that overlaps in funding should be avoided and that beekeepers and their organisations should be involved in carrying out field tests;
Amendment 83 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Commission to set up a steering committee, together with representatives of organisations in the beekeeping sector, which will assist the Commission in establishing the annual work programme of the EU reference laboratory;
Amendment 93 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on the Commission actively to encourage a greater degree of information- sharing among Member States, laboratories and beekeepers on ecotoxicological studies and other factors affecting honeybee health so as to make possible informed, independent scientific scrutiny and create a single database;
Amendment 171 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Calls on the Member States to make it possible to acquire higher-education qualifications in plant protection knowledge for use in agriculture for all students pursuing specialisms in agriculture and science;
Amendment 200 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
Paragraph 29
29. Calls on the Commission to provide significantly more financial resources for the beekeeping sector, particularly measures to support beekeepers, and to encourage the development of joint projects, and on the Member States to provide technical assistance for the beekeeping sector; calls on the Commission to provide a safety net or a common insurance system for apiculture in order to mitigate the impact of crisis situations on beekeepers;
Amendment 210 #
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 encourage farmers to engage in agri-environmental measures in order to support ‘bee-friendly’ grasslands on field margins, and the planting of nectar-bearing trees in tree-felling areas after trees have been harvested and to employ special crop rotation and variation;