This page is a part of the corpus (Annexe 1) used to write Stéphane Foucart and neonicotinoids.
Here, I relate what the journalist said in his article "Un plan de soutien contre le déclin de l’apiculture". All quotes, originally in French, were translated by me.
Beekeeping declines: ""
To fight against, the Minister of Agriculture at the time, Stéphane Le Foll released an envelope of 40 million euros to professionalize the sector through training.
He also wants to create an "observatory of pesticide residues in the environment of bees (pollen, nectar, etc.)", an idea which displeases beekeepers:
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The author then evokes the 2-year moratorium decided by the European Commission after the opinion of EFSA (mentioned in the previous article) and reports that the UNAF has announced that it is not satisfied by the minister's program and that 'she wants "the total and definitive ban of these systemic phytosanitary products".