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Farming ministers reaffirm need for a new approach to protecting honey bees Today agriculture ministers agreed on the need to set a specific goal to protect honey bees from pesticides. Member states considered guidance provided by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), outlining a new approach to assessing the impact of pesticides on honey bee populations. Specifically, the European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, Stella Kyriakides, invited ministers to consider an approach that would set the maximum reduction in colony size at 10% across the whole of the EU. Ministers agreed on the need to increase the EU’s ambitions in terms of honey bee protection while also ensuring that the measures were feasible for member states to implement. On the whole they supported the proposed approach, with some member states calling for the maximum size to be set lower than 10%. Many also stressed the importance of taking the

Stella kyriakidesAgriculture organizationEuropean commissionEuropean food safety authorityEuropean commissionerFood safetyPortuguese ministerGuidance documentTerrestrial ecotoxicologyஐரோப்பிய தரகுஐரோப்பிய உணவு பாதுகாப்பு அதிகாரம்ஐரோப்பிய ஆணையர்உணவு பாதுகாப்புபோர்சுகீஸ் அமைச்சர்வழிகாட்டல் ஆவணம்