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"In my opinion, it is essential to seek a solution to excessive bee mortality at European level. The problem is the lack of reliable and comparable data on the number of hives, beekeepers and colony losses in the EU. There is a great need to apply an effective harmonised surveillance system to estimate the extent of bee mortalities, and to develop more accurate knowledge on the extent and the causes of colony losses and other bee health problems. I welcome the Commission’s pilot surveillance programme on bee health and, in accordance with the Council’s conclusions, I invite the Commission to make the outcome available to all interested parties, while emphasising that further efforts are needed to create an appropriate surveillance system in the EU. The Commission should also support the establishment of a European network of reference apiaries to monitor bee health in relation to environmental conditions and beekeeping/agricultural practices. I also welcome the establishment of the EU Reference Laboratory. The reference laboratory should complement the activities of existing expert networks or national laboratories. I would also like to stress the need to support diagnostic laboratories and field tests at national level. Further to this, the Commission should provide financing for laboratories dealing with quality and safety analyses of apicultural products, and ensure the sharing of this information at European level."@en1
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