COAG Satisfied with the recognition of the apiculture like key sector for the environmental conservation
15 November 2011
Between the requests requested by the PE to the Commission stand out the promotion of new technicians of integrated management of plaguicidas and the development of veterinary medicines for the current pathogenic agents that affect to the bees, especially against 'Varroa destroyer', the inclusion of the apiculture in the finance of the European veterinary politics and the control of the illnesses of exotic parasites of the pertinent bees of third countries.
Besides, the PE asks to the Commission and to the Council that keep and strengthen the supports to the apiculture in the new Agricultural Politics Common (PAC) further of 2013, by means of greater financial resources in the current National Programs Apícolas, helps in the diet of direct helps of the first pillar and in the measures agroambientales of rural development.
The mortandad and loss of colonies of precise bees a system of surveillance harmonised/harmonized to level of all the EU to know the scope of this grave problem and an independent investigation on the impact that at present have the toxic phytosanitary products on the bees. Has to take into account the specific needs of the sector apícola in the review of the veterinary politics European that will present the Commission in 2012 on animal health. Likewise, it is necessary to achieve a greater availability of effective veterinary medicines contras the illnesses of the bees, centring/centering the efforts in the fight and control of the varroasis, when being a parasite that has a big capacity to generate resistances.
For the manager of the sector apícola of