Honey: application of measures to improve the production and marketing

OBJECTIVE : to improve the conditions for the production and marketing of honey in the European Union. SUBSTANCE: the proposal for a Council Regulation was drawn up at the request of the Agriculture Council meeting of 4 October 1994 following an exchange of views on the Commission's communication entitled Discussion Paper on European Beekeeping. The purpose of the proposal is to improve the conditions for the production and marketing of honey in the European Union by means of national programmes including technical assistance measures, controlling varroasis and associated disease, the rationalization of transhumance and the analysis of honey by regional beekeeping laboratories. It also provides that Member States should carry out a study of the production and marketing structures in the beekeeping sector in their territory by 1 July 1997. �