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To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she has taken to urge the EU to permit the import of queen bees from Hawaii; and if she will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she has taken to urge the EU to permit the import of queen bees from Hawaii; and if she will make a statement.
Asked by
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton
(Conservative)
Answered by
Ben Bradshaw
(Labour)
Answering body
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Oral questions - Lead
Status
Answered
Tabled on
21 June 2004
For answer on
24 June 2004
Answered on
24 June 2004
Subjects
Disease control; EU external trade; Import controls; Imports; Beekeeping; USA; Bees
Date
24 June 2004
Reference
422 c1435; 180205
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House of Commons chamber
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House of Commons
1st supplementary on same.
1st supplementary on same.
Asked by
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton
(Conservative)
Answering body
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Oral questions - 1st Supplementary
Status
Answered
Answered on
24 June 2004
Subjects
Disease control; EU external trade; Import controls; Imports; Beekeeping; USA; Bees
Date
24 June 2004
Reference
422 c1435
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House of Commons chamber
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House of Commons
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make a statement on the grounds for the ban on the import of queen bees from Hawaii; what evaluation her Department has made of the (a) health, (b) disease and (c) animal welfare grounds for...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make a statement on the grounds for the ban on the import of queen bees from Hawaii; what evaluation her Department has made of the (a) health, (b) disease and (c) animal welfare grounds for...
Asked by
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton
(Conservative)
Answered by
Alun Michael
(Labour)
Answering body
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
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Written questions
Status
Answered
Tabled on
13 May 2004
For answer on
24 May 2004
Answered on
24 May 2004
Mr. Cameron: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (1) if she will make a statement on the grounds
for the ban on the import of queen bees from Hawaii; [174128]
(2) what evaluation her Department has made of the (a) health, (b) disease and (c) animal welfare grounds for
restricting the import of queen bees from (i) Hawaii and (ii) Australia; and if she will make a statement. [174129]
Alun Michael: New European Community legislation strengthening the animal health controls and certification requirements for the
importation of bees from third countries came into effect across the Community on 27 December 2003. Its aim, in particular,
is to protect the EU bee population from exotic pests and diseases.
The new import controls include the requirement that consignments of queen honey bees will only be allowed into the Community from
those third countries that have demonstrated the veterinary competence to certify bees for export, and provided that the notifiable
diseases of bees in the EU--American foul brood, the small hive beetle and tropilaelaps mite--are also confirmed as notifiable
throughout the exporting country. The specified third countries are listed in Part 1 to the Annex of Council Decision 79/542 and
include the USA and Australia.
To date, only Australia, New Zealand and Argentina have demonstrated to us that they are able to comply with the conditions provided
in the legislation, and imports of queens from these countries are permitted. However, in the case of Hawaii, while it is our
opinion that it does have a high bee health status, and, indeed, we have until recently permitted imports of queen bees from there,
it is nevertheless a territory of the USA. The EU legislation is clear in its intention, and it is our understanding that the three
notifiable diseases mentioned above are not yet notifiable throughout the USA as a whole. The Commission has stated that it is not
prepared to treat Hawaii as separate from the rest of the USA for this purpose. We are therefore not free to authorise the
importation of queens bees from Hawaii until the USA has demonstrated equivalence with the EU.
Subjects
Australia; Import controls; Imports; Beekeeping; USA
Date
24 May 2004
Reference
421 c1287-8W; 174128;174129
House
House of Commons