{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2013-225/introduction",
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  "legislation": "eudn/2013/225",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Decision of 17 May 2013 amending Implementing Decision 2012/362/EU concerning a financial contribution by the Union to certain Member States to support voluntary surveillance studies on honeybee colony losses, as regards extending the deadline for those Member States’ programmes on those studies (notified under document C(2013) 2785) (Only the Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Slovak, Spanish and Swedish texts are authentic) (2013/225/EU)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2013-225",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Commission Implementing Decision\nof 17 May 2013\namending Implementing Decision 2012/362/EU concerning a financial contribution by the Union to certain Member States to support voluntary surveillance studies on honeybee colony losses, as regards extending the deadline for those Member States’ programmes on those studies\n(notified under document C(2013) 2785)\n(Only the Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Slovak, Spanish and Swedish texts are authentic)\n(2013/225/EU)\nTHE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,\nHaving regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,\nHaving regard to Council Decision 2009/470/EC of 25 May 2009 on expenditure in the veterinary field, and in particular Article 23 thereof,\nWhereas:\n(1)\nCommission Implementing Decision 2012/362/EU, provides for Union financial assistance to be granted to Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Estonia, Greece, Spain, France, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Finland, Sweden and the United Kingdom for their surveillance study programmes on honeybee colony losses for the period from 1 April 2012 to 30 June 2013.\n(2)\nThe Guidelines for a pilot surveillance project on honeybee colony losses of the European Union Reference Laboratory for honeybee health provides guidance to Member States on their surveillance study programmes on honeybee colony losses. It provides that three controls be carried out in selected apiaries and that the last control be carried out during the honey production season in order to objectively estimate the number of lost or weakened colonies. The period should be selected by the Member State depending on its specific climatic characteristics.\n(3)\nCertain Member States have requested that the period of the surveillance study programmes on honeybee colony losses, provided for in Implementing Decision 2012/362/EU, be extended after 30 June 2013, as taking account of the geographical location of those Member States and seasonal conditions, it could be impossible to complete their programmes before that date.\n(4)\nIn order to make it possible for all Member States taking part in the surveillance study programmes on honeybee colony losses to conclude the third round of visits in summer, it is necessary to amend the end date provided for in Implementing Decision 2012/362/EU from 30 June 2013 to 30 September 2013.\n(5)\nImplementing Decision 2012/362/EU should therefore be amended accordingly.\n(6)\nThe measures provided for in this Decision are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health,\nHAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ L 155, 18.6.2009, p. 30."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "OJ L 176, 6.7.2012, p. 65."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "http://ec.europa.eu/food/animal/liveanimals/bees/docs/annex_i_pilot_project_en.pdf"
    }
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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