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From: chip@ku.edu<BR>To: Ladadams@aol.com<BR>Sent: 4/29/2013 8:31:18 A.M.
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<DIV>Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 09:39:30 -0500<BR>To: <chip@ku.edu><BR>From:
Kim Flottum <Kim@BeeCulture.com><BR>Subject: CATCH THE BUZZ - EU Votes
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<DIV>CATCH THE BUZZ<BR></DIV>
<DIV>EU Votes To Ban Neonics, but Barely<BR></DIV>
<DIV>Alan Harman<BR></DIV>
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<DIV> A deeply divided European Union will go ahead with a ban on the use
of three neonicotinoid insecticides - clothianidin, imidacloprid and
thiametoxam - blamed by critics for the decline in honey bee number.<BR></DIV>
<DIV> The EU Commission will proceed with the suspension of their
use from next Dec, 1 after 15 EU countries supported the restriction, eight
voted against and 4 abstained.<BR></DIV>
<DIV> The halt will be for at least two years.<BR></DIV>
<DIV> "Although a majority of Member States now supports our
proposal, the necessary qualified majority was not reached," Health and
Consumer Commissioner Tonio Borg said in a statement. "The decision now lies
with the Commission. Since our proposal is based on a number of risks to bee
health identified by the European Food Safety Authority, the Commission will
go ahead with its text in the coming weeks.<BR></DIV>
<DIV> "I pledge to do my utmost to ensure that our bees, which are
so vital to our ecosystem and contribute over ¤22 billion (US$28.8 billion)
annually to European agriculture, are protected."<BR></DIV>
<DIV> The plan restricts the use of the three neonicotinoids
for seed treatment, soil application (granules) and foliar treatment on bee
attractive plants and flowering crops such as corn, oil seed rape and
sunflower.<BR></DIV>
<DIV> Any other authorized uses must be carried out by
professionals.<BR></DIV>
<DIV> Exceptions will be limited to treating bee-attractive crops
in greenhouses, in open-air fields only after flowering.<BR></DIV>
<DIV> An EU statement says that as soon as new information is available,
and at the latest within two years, the Commission will review the conditions
of approval of the three neonicotinoids to take into account relevant
scientific and technical developments.<BR></DIV>
<DIV> Experts representing the 27 EU countries had met March 15 as
the Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health and failed to reach
a qualified majority to on the proposal to ban the three
neonicotinoids.<BR></DIV>
<DIV> Then the vote was 13 for a ban, nine against with five
abstentions. The proposal was then referred to the appeal committee which also
failed to reach the required majority, allowing the Commission to step in and
impose the two-year ban.<BR></DIV>
<DIV> The decision is seen as a victory for campaigners concerned
about dramatic declines in bees, but a defeat for the chemical companies who
make the products and the UK government which said a ban will harm food
production.<BR></DIV>
<DIV> The UK's Soil Association Head of Policy Emma Hockridge
called the decision a victory not only for the bees and other pollinators, but
for independent science against the political, pro-pesticide position adopted
by UK Environment Secretary Owen Paterson and the pesticide
industry.<BR></DIV>
<DIV> "There is strong evidence that a ban on neonicotinoids would
work," Hockridge says. "In Italy, where the government has taken decisive
action and banned certain neonicotinoids pesticides, deaths of honey bees in
winter subsequently fell by more than 50% in three years."<BR></DIV>
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