European Commission, MEMO, Brussels, 7 April 2014:
1. What has the European Commission done for better bee health?
The Commission contributes to bee health on many areas:
On the veterinary side,
the Commission: created an EU Reference Laboratory for bee health in
2011; co-financed voluntary surveillance studies to estimate the extent
of bee mortalities since 2012; trained hundreds of national veterinary
officials in bee health under the Better Training for Safer Food
initiative since 2010, and ran research
projects to deal with honeybee health.