# Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/692 of 30 January 2020 supplementing Regulation (EU) 2016/429 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards rules for entry into the Union, and the movement and handling after entry of consignments of certain animals, germinal products and products of animal origin (Text with EEA relevance), Article 64: Dispatch to the Union of honeybees and bumble bees

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

Consignments of queen honeybees and bumble bees shall only be permitted to enter the Union if they comply with the following requirements:
(a) the packaging material and queen cages used to dispatch the honeybees and bumble bees into the Union must:
(i) be new;
(ii) not have been in contact with any bees and brood combs;
(iii) have been subject to all precautions to prevent their contamination with pathogens causing diseases of honeybees or bumble bees;
(b) the feedingstuff accompanying the honeybees and bumble bees must be free from pathogens causing their diseases;
(c) the packaging material and accompanying products must have undergone a visual examination prior to dispatch to the Union to ensure that they do not pose an animal health risk and do not contain:
(i) in the case of honeybees, Aethina tumida (Small hive beetle) and Tropilaelaps mite in any of their life stages;
(ii) in the case of bumble bees, Aethina tumida (Small hive beetle), in any of their life stages.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2020/692/article/64 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2020-692/article-64
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