This Regulation lays down measures intended to improve general conditions for the production and marketing of apiculture products. Each Member State must draw up a national apiculture programme for a three-year period, in close collaboration with the representative organizations and beekeeping cooperatives. The following measures may be included in the apiculture programme: (a) technical assistance to beekeepers and groupings of beekeepers; (b) control of varroasis; (c) rationalization of transhumance; (d) measures to support laboratories carrying out analyses of the physico-chemical properties of honey; (e) measures to support the restocking of hives in the European Community.
2004-04-26