Text tabled : A7-0359/2011

  Vasilica Viorica Dăncilă (S&D), in writing. – (RO) Given the lack of representative and comparable data at European level on bee colony losses, I believe that these losses need to be quantified and an appropriate monitoring system established which is common to all Member States. The European Commission and Member States must redouble their efforts to help the bees and beekeepers survive, as the health of bee colonies is affected by numerous lethal factors, and veterinary research and practice play a lesser role in the effective prevention or control of the diseases affecting them. Furthermore, I think that it is important to set up surveillance systems at national level and harmonised standards at European Union level for collecting data on bee health, so that informed and independent scientific scrutiny can be carried out. I also think that independent research needs to be conducted promptly into bee mortality.