Key Benefits:
Completion of approved parring areas for honeybees
In accordance with section 7, section 17, paragraph 1. Paragraph 20 (1) and 20. 2, in the Act of Biekeeping, cf. Law Order no. 759 of 29. June 2006, and according to the authorisation,
Objective and general provisions
§ 1. In order to ensure the possibility of conducting controlled parring of honeybees, the Plantedirectorate can approve a limited set of mating grounds on which a mating station can be established.
§ 2. In an approved parring area only honey bees shall be provided by the bees in the mating station, cf. however, section 3 (3). 2.
Paragraph 2. The fund of bee sting and feral honeybee families must be reported to the person responsible for the mating station.
§ 3. It is not permitted for anyone other than the person responsible for mating the station to lead the honeybees into the mating zone.
Paragraph 2. However, others may, irrespective of the provision in paragraph 1, 1, lead the mating families into the mating area of the agreement with the person responsible for the mating zone.
Application
§ 4. Application for approval of a parring area shall include the following :
1) the name and address of the person responsible for the mating station ;
2) a statement of experience of the applicant as bequekeeper
3) information on the location and identification of the mating area ;
4) information on the location of the mating station ;
5) the information on the breeding material being used and
6) information on apiaries in the parking area and the statement by the owners of those concerned as to whether they agree to use bees of the same derision as the bees in the mating station.
Paragraph 2. The Board of Directors may request additional information for the processing of the application.
Paragraph 3. The application for an extension of approval for a new five-year period shall be accompanied by a declaration from all apiaries in the area, cf. paragraph 1, no. 6 on whether or not they continue to agree to use bees of the same derision, as the bees at the mating station.
Approval of the application
§ 5. The Directorate-General may, as a mating area, approve smaller islands and other demarcated areas with sufficient isolated location.
Paragraph 2. It is a condition for approving the application that the person responsible for the mating station is registered as a groundkeeper, cf. the announcement of the fight against harmful organisms in honeybees and bred bumblebees and have experience as a queen farmer.
§ 6. The Directorate-General shall find the basis for the application for approval or the extension of the approval to be satisfactory, the directorate of the applicant shall carry out a hearing in the local press or in the other appropriate manner, addressed to : beekeepers and planteaters in the application area submitted.
§ 7. On the basis of the application and made comments, the Directorate-General for a final decision on the approval of a parring area and laying down the conditions for this shall take place.
Terms and Conditions
§ 8. The approval of a parring area shall be granted for five years at a time of the following conditions :
1) In the case of establishment, the responsible for the mating station shall provide a free supply of the same bloodline as the approved breeding material for the replacement of the bikers of the existing beekeepers in the mating zone. Assess the responsible for the mating station at a later time that it is appropriate to replace biqueens, such as the return of the biqueens, in the same number as in the initial replacement.
2) The person responsible for the mating station in operation shall, at the request of beekeepers in the mating area, provide fertilised use queens as a reasonable amount and for appropriate remuneration.
3) The responsible for the mating station must, on the basis of agreements with planteaters in the parking area, ensure there is a sufficient number of bifamilies to carry out the crop dusting of crops with planteavlers in the mating zone. For the rental of bee families for pollination, a reasonable remuneration may be required.
4) Replacing the person responsible for the mating station can only be done by prior approval of the Plant Directorate.
5) All the mating families of the mating station must be at least every 6. week in the period from 1. 1 May to 1. September appears by a cynical beekeeper of the harmful organisms malignant bionic (caused by the larder) Paenibacillus larvae ), stone spawn (caused by Aspergillus -mushrooms), the small stack of beetle ( Aethina tumida () and Tropilaelaps -Mimigo.
6) Ongoing work shall be carried out on an ongoing basis and annually before 1. In December, a report is submitted to the Directorate-General for the work of the previous season. The deposition must be drawn up on a schedule that is available at the Department of Plantedirectorate.
Withdrawal of approval
§ 9. The Board of Directors may withdraw approval of a parring area if one or more terms cf. Section 8 is not being observed.
Removal of bee sting and wild bee families
§ 10. The person responsible for the mating station is right and obligation to remove or destroy bee-keeping or wild honeybee families in the parking area, with the exception of cases where a beekeeper persecutes bee yards from their own farmhouse ; and houses these within 12 hours of the fact that they have settled.
Clause
§ 11. Complaguing the decisions of the Plant Agency, following this notice, may be submitted to the Minister for Food, Agriculture and Fisheries within 4 weeks of the date of receipt of the decision. The class shall be addressed to the Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries and shall be submitted to the Board of Directors.
Penalty and effective provisions
§ 12. The withdrawal of section 2 (2). 1 and 3 are punishable by fine.
§ 13. The announcement will enter into force on the 29th. April 2008. At the same time, notice of notice No 355 of 18. April 2007, approved parring areas for honeybees.
Stk.2. Approvals issued under notice no. 771 of 16. September 1992 on dry cleaning shall remain in force for the period in question. The extension of the approval shall then be subject to compliance with the terms of section 8 of this notice, and that the person responsible for the mating train is capable of groundwork.
