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Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/688 of 17 December 2019 supplementing Regulation (EU) 2016/429 of the European Parliament and of the Council, as regards animal health requirements for movements within the Union of terrestrial animals and hatching eggs (Text with EEA relevance)
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By way of derogation from Article 48(b)(ii), operators may move queen honeybees where those animals fulfil the requirements of Article 48(a), (b)(i) and (iii) and the following requirements:
in the apiary of origin infestation with Aethina tumida (Small hive beetle) has not been reported and that apiary is situated at a distance of at least 30 km from the limits of a protection zone of at least 20 km in radius established by the competent authority around a confirmed occurence of infestation with Aethina tumida (Small hive beetle);
the apiary of origin is not located in a zone restricted by protective measures established by the Union due to the confirmed occurence of infestation with Aethina tumida (Small hive beetle);
the apiary of origin is situated in an area where annual surveillance for the detection of infestation with Aethina tumida (Small hive beetle) by the competent authority is ongoing to provide a confidence level of at least 95 % of detecting infestation with Aethina tumida (Small hive beetle) if at least 2 % of the apiaries were infested;
the apiary of origin is inspected every month during the production season by the competent authority with negative results to provide a confidence level of at least 95 % of detecting infestation with Aethina tumida (Small hive beetle) if at least 2 % of the hives were infested;
they are caged individually with a maximum of 20 accompanying attendants.
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