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FVE Bees Working Group

FVE Bees Working Group. 03 May 2012. 03 May 2012. Terms of Reference Outcomes> end of 2013 Estimated budget for FVE 2012: 3.000 Euro Estimated budget for FVE 2013: 5.000 Euro. FVE Bees WG. Information on health of the honey bee sector

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FVE Bees Working Group

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  1. FVE Bees Working Group 03 May 2012

  2. 03 May 2012

  3. Terms of Reference • Outcomes> end of 2013 • Estimated budget for FVE 2012: 3.000 Euro • Estimated budget for FVE 2013: 5.000 Euro

  4. FVE Bees WG • Information on health of the honey bee sector • Recommendations to the FVE Board on possible methods to involve the veterinary profession • Support the Board producing science-based input to National and EU decision makers • Provide guidelines on training of veterinarians

  5. 15 November 2011 European ParliamentResolution Health and the challenges of the beekeeping sector Calls on the Commission to promote setting up of appropriate national surveillance systems in close cooperation with beekeepers‘ associations…. » Support for training programmes for beekeepers on disease prevention and control,….to submit guidelines for the veterinarytreatment of hives

  6. Veterinarians in the honey bee heath sector • Veterinary practitioners > what’s role? • Veterinary act > what is it? • Veterinary medicinal products (MRLs - prescription – delivery- availability) > who has the responsibility? Honey bee health teaching in veterinary schools • Subjects & EU training • French diploma on “Beekeeping- Honey bee pathology”

  7. I - Honeybees are domesticanimals II- Vets are responsible for Veterinary Public Heath III - Vets holdscientificknowledge and expertise world widerecognized IV - Vets responsible for AH/AW/PH/Environment V - EFSA 2012 production of about 80% of the 264 crop species cultivated in the EU depends directly on insect pollinators, mostly bees Global annual monetary value of pollination = billions of $ “Veterinarians possess the cross-species expertise required to address some of the world’s most pressing problems from a comprehensive, comparative perspective”

  8. Practitioners Main concerns • Notifiable diseases are not reported • No real data are available on colony losses • Cooperation with Beekeepers sounds difficult • Vet involvement is weak

  9. Veterinary Act > FVE definition • Clinicalexamination • Diagnosis • ProperProphylaxy, Treatment & follow up Vets are in the position to set up, monitor follow up and provideadvices on good beekeeping practices and GHPs

  10. VMPs use - MRLs - Prescription - Availability - Delivery • Need betteraccess to VMPsagainst Varroa • Avoid and forbidABs and fungicides in the frame of beediseases • Prescrition must be a Vet’sprerogative • Beekeepers strongly lobby EU Decisionmakers

  11. Honey Bee Health & Education • Subjects & EU training • French diploma on Beekeeping- Honey bee pathology • Developing a “EU Syllabus”

  12. Italy SeminarioFormativo per Medici Veterinari a Verona Il CRA/University of Pisa > MSc in Honey Bee Studies and Honey Bee Diseases, also open to non-veterinarians. FNOVI Position Paper - FNOVI  Beekeeping Group (11 vets) > subject to be included in the curriculum • UK Nottingham > undergraduate curriculum • FR Undergraduate curriculum and post graduate training for vets”Honeybee pathology-Apiculture” 4 weeks course • Germany, Austria, Spain, Hungary ? OtherMSs?

  13. Action Points 3 briefing / position papers on Position of vets > why vets are needed? Rules - licences Medicines Availability > Use of miticide - AMs and AM Resistance Undergraduate and postgraduate training

  14. Any specific proposal?

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