# Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1212/2012 of 17 December 2012 amending Regulations (EC) No 2535/2001, (EC) No 917/2004, (EC) No 382/2008, (EC) No 748/2008, (EC) No 810/2008 and (EC) No 610/2009 as regards the notification obligations within the common organisation of agricultural markets, Article 2

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

Regulation (EC) No 917/2004 is amended as follows:
(1) Article 1 is replaced by the following:
“Article 1 The national programmes referred to in Article 105 of Council Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 (hereinafter referred to as ‘the apiculture programmes’) shall:
(a) describe the situation in the sector making it possible to update regularly the structural data in the study referred to in Article 107 of Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007, covering in particular the following:
(i) total number of beekeepers;
(ii) number of professional beekeepers with more than 150 hives each;
(iii) total number of hives;
(iv) honey production;
(v) list of aims of the programme;
(b) give a detailed description of the measures involved, with estimated costs and financing plan broken down by year at national and regional level, according to the following headings:
(i) technical assistance to beekeepers;
(ii) control of varroasis;
(iii) rationalisation of transhumance;
(iv) analyses of honey;
(v) restocking of hives;
(vi) applied research programmes;
(c) refer to the applicable laws, regulations and administrative provisions;
(d) list the representative organisations and bee-keeping cooperatives that collaborated with the competent authority of the Member State in drawing up the apiculture programmes;
(e) set up the monitoring and assessment arrangements of the apiculture programmes.”
(2) In Article 6, the third paragraph is replaced by the following:
“By 15 December each year, Member States shall notify the Commission of a summary of the implementation of expenditure broken down according to the headings referred to in Article 1(b).”
(3) The following Article 6a is inserted:
“Article 6a The notifications referred to in this Regulation shall be made in accordance with Commission Regulation (EC) No 792/2009.”

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2012/1212/article/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2012-1212/article-2
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