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"I should like to use the vote on Mr Lannoye’s report as an opportunity to remind the House of the catastrophic situation currently facing European beekeepers.
On 13 December 2001 the European Parliament voted in favour of its resolution on the Commission report on improving the production and marketing of honey. That resolution contains a real cry for help regarding the deplorable situation of beekeepers and their hives. This appeal by the European Parliament was heard by the Council, in particular at the Agriculture Council on 18 February 2002.
Unfortunately, our resolution did not receive a similar welcome from the Commission, which has still not reacted. Yet the situation continues to worsen.
Last week, therefore, I decided to send a written question to the Commission, condemning this lack of action. In Western France, because of fungicides sprayed on fields of wheat, more than four thousand hives have been affected and 70% of honey production has already been lost. The end result will be that if the Commission continues to fail to act, bees will be extinct in a few years’ time.
Mr Lannoye’s report on plant protection products also touches on this problem. In its opinion to the Committee on the Environment, the Committee on Agriculture has submitted two amendments."@en1
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