Article 1U.K.

Part 2 of Annex E to Council Directive 92/65/EEC — Health certificate for trade in bees and bumble bees — is amended as follows:

(1)

in entry I.25 a check box is added with the following words: ‘Production (pollination)’;

(2)

in entry I.31 a column is added with words ‘Nature of commodity’ constituting its title and with the following selectable items appearing below the title, each in a separate row: ‘queens, packages of bees, nucleus colonies, colonies’;

(3)

in entry II.1 the following is inserted in point (b), after the word ‘absent’:

‘or

(b)the consignment consists only of cages of queen bees each containing one single queen with a maximum of 20 accompanying attendants and comes from an area of at least 100 km radius which is not the subject of any restrictions associated with the suspicion or confirmed occurrence of the Tropilaelaps mite (Tropilaelaps spp.) and from an establishment that fulfils all the following requirements:

  • it is situated at least 30 km distance from the limits of a protection zone of at least 20 km in radius around confirmed occurrence(s) of the small hive beetle, and

  • it is situated outside of a zone restricted by protective measures established by the Union due to the occurrence of small hive beetle, and

  • it is situated in an area where annual surveillance for the detection of small hive beetle by the competent authority is ongoing to provide a confidence level of at least 95 % of detecting small hive beetle if at least 2 % of the apiaries were infested, and

  • it is inspected every month by the competent authority with negative results to provide a confidence level of at least 95 % of detecting small hive beetle if at least 2 % of the hives were infested, and

  • where each cage or the whole consignment is covered by a fine mesh of maximum 2 mm pore size immediately after the visual examination for the health certification;

or

(b)the bumble bees come from an environmentally isolated structure recognised by and under the supervision of the competent authority, which is free of small hive beetle;’.