AGENDA EU BEEWEEK 2018
Tuesday 26 June
Scientific symposium – session I & II (10:00-17:30) – Interpretation EN-FR
Wednesday 27 June
Workshop 1 (10:00-12:30): Beekeepers and Farmers, Experience sharing and best practices for Bees in the agricultural sector – Interpretation EN-FR-Croatian
Workshop 2 (15:00-17:00): Young Beekeepers & Young Farmers, new generations for new cooperation – Interpretation EN-FR
Discovery Night (17:30)
Thursday 28 June
High-level Conference (9:00-16:45) – Interpretation EN-FR-DE-ES-IT-RO-HR
Tuesday 26 June
Scientific Symposium
Session I
09:30-12:00
Room PHS 4B001
European Parliament, Brussels
Interpretation EN-FR
SESSION I – Replicable best practices and tools for farmers to protect bees
Chaired by Dr Bach Kim Nguyen, University of Liège, Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, BeeOdiversity.
10:00-10:30 – Opening
Welcome remarks by Michel Dantin, Member of the European Parliament, President of the EU BeeWeek
Opening address by Mairead McGuinness, Vice-President of the European Parliament
10:30-10:45 – Challenges of the Agricultural sector
Farmers’ concern towards bees, practical and scientific challenges (tbd)
10:45-11:10 – Evaluating the impact of plant protection products on bees
Julie Fourrier, Technical and Scientific Institute for Apiculture and Pollination (Itsap – France) – The homing flight ring test: method for the assessment of sublethal doses of plant protection products on the honey bee in field conditions
Questions and answers
11:10-11:50 – Methodologies for sustainable farming: scientific approach
Prof. Eric Haubruge, 1st Vice-Rector, University of Liège
Alain Peteers, Secretary of the European Association for Agro-ecology – The integration of agro-ecology in the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)
Questions and answers
11:50-12:30 – Replicable best practices – Practical cases
Philippe Lecompte, Vice President of Symbiose – Symbiose: Cooperation between beekeepers and farmers in the Marne (France)
Frédéric Gond, Farmer and representatives from the FDSEA Loiret (France) – Agrapi: Monitoring of bees
Questions and answers
12:30-12:50 – Agricultural Awards for the protection of bees
Robert de Graeff, Senior Policy Advisor European Landowners’ Organization (ELO), Presentation of the Award, past winners, outcomes and outlook
Cathy Blervacq, Global Lead Centre of Excellence Sustainability Sibelco, Winner of the 2017 ELO Bee Award
12:50-13:00 – Conclusion of session I
Scientific Symposium
Session II
14:00-17:30
Room PHS 6B001
European Parliament, Brussels
Interpretation EN-FR
SESSION II – Chaired by EFSA
Chaired by Tobin Robinson, Head of Unit, Scientific Committee and Emerging Risks, European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)
14:00-14:10 – Welcome to participants and outline of agenda – few words on creation of EU Bee Partnership
Tobin Robinson, Head of Unit, Scientific Committee and Emerging Risks, EFSA
14:10-14:30 – Outline of the Terms of Reference of the EU Bee Partnership – vision, objectives, aspirations, deliverables, and success factors
Simon More, Chair of the Panel on Animal Health and Welfare, EFSA
14:30-14:45 – Beekeepers view of benefits of collecting and sharing data on bee health in EU
Noa Simon Delso, BeeLife, European Beekeeping Coordination
14:45-15:00 – Perspective on how the Partnership can guide industry on data to assist risk assessors and strengthen stewardship
Anne Alix, European Crop Protection Association (ECPA)
15:00-15:30 – Q&A session
**** Coffee break (30min) ****
16:00-16:15 – ApisRAM, Designing a new honey bee model for risk assessment
Chris Topping, Aarhus University, Denmark
16:15-16:30 – PoshBee: evidence, tools, practice, and policy for European bees
Marie-Pierre Chauzat, EU Reference Laboratory for Bee Health/ANSES
16:30-16:45 – EU Pollinators Initiative
Vujadin Kovacevic, DG ENV Unit D.2, European Commission
16:45-17:15 – Q&A session
17:15-17:30 – Summary of session II
Tobin Robinson, Scientific Committee and Emerging Risks, Head of Unit, EFSA
Wednesday 27 June
Workshop 1
10:00-12:30
Room ASP 3G2
European Parliament, Brussels
Interpretation EN-FR-Croatian
WORKSHOP 1 – BEEKEEPERS AND FARMERS, EXPERIENCE SHARING AND BEST PRACTICES FOR BEES IN THE AGRICULTURAL SECTOR
10:00-10:10 – Introduction by MEP Marijana Petir
Chaired by Michael Hambly, Vice-Chair of Working Party on Oilseeds, Copa-Cogeca
10:10-10:35 – New techniques to limit the risks of plant protection products in crops
Eeva-Liisa Korpela, Research Coordinator/PR Officer (Finland) – The use of bees as a precision organism to spread a biological fungicide on certain berry and fruit blossom to combat fungal disease in them
Questions and answers
10:35-11:25 – Agronomic management to help protect bees in agricultural areas
Cédric Brice, Policy officer Agronomy – Practical case in organic farming for the production of Alfalfa/Lucerne, promotion of grass strips to foster biodiversity
Hubert Compère, Farmer from l’Aisne (France) – New agronomic balance in large scale field & monitoring of bio-indicators
Questions and answers
11:25-12:20 – New techniques and medicinal products to help beekeepers facing bee health problems
Michael Rubinigg, Scientific Officer, Biene Österreich, Austrian Beekeeping Federation (Austria) – Crowd-sourced data collection platforms on parasite and diseases for beekeepers
Dr Klaus Hellmann, Federation of Veterinarians of Europe (FEV) – Veterinary medical products for bees, regulation and comparative analysis between Member States
Questions and answers
12:20-12:30 – Conclusion
Workshop 2
15:00-17:00
Room ASP 5G1
European Parliament, Brussels
Interpretation EN-FR
WORKSHOP 2 – YOUNG BEEKEEPERS AND YOUNG FARMERS, NEW GENERATIONS FOR NEW COOPERATION
15:00-16:50 – Best practices and innovative actions
Format: this workshop will aim to trigger debates and interactions between all speakers and the participants. First, all speakers will introduce themselves and their organisation briefly. Then, a discussion will be organised by the Chair of the Workshop addressing questions (see below) each by each. Speakers as well as participants will be able to take the floor when they ask it to raise questions and/or comment on the issue. All contributions should be short and straight to the point in order to allow for a constructive debates.
Panellists:
- European Young farmers association (CEJA) – Realities and practical issues of young farmers
- Justine Henion, Young beekeeper – Realities and practical issues of young beekeepers
- Patrick Pagès, formateur à la MFR de Mazille, Rural Vocational Training Centers (Réseau des Maisons rurales et familiales – France) – Education and vocational training to beekeeping activities for young people (tbc)
Questions:
- What issues are currently faced by Young Farmers in developing more bee-friendly farming practices on the field?
- How to support the installation of Young Beekeepers?
- What best practices can be outlined?
- What recommendations to address these issues and build new forms of cooperation?
- What EU policy for the future?
- In particular, what proposals for the CAP 2021-2027?
16:40-16:50 Address by Mayread McGuiness MEP
16:50-17:00 – Debriefing from the Chair and proposal of recommendations
Discovery Night
17:30-21:00
Brasserie
European Parliament, Brussels
Welcoming words and speakers
Welcoming words by Frédérique Ries MEP
Iris Rombus, Artist – Presentation of a book bringing together pieces of art on honey bee
Gilles Ratia, Former President of Apimondia, Director of Apiservices – Bees, honey and the world
Marijana Petir MEP
Discovery Night – Cocktail
Testing of multiple products from the hives & others: honey, honey sweets, honey beers, cocktails, cheese, bread… and more surprises!
Thursday 28 June
BEEWEEK 2018 – HIGH-LEVEL CONFERENCE
09:00-16:15
Room JAN 2Q2
European Parliament, Brussels
Interpretation EN-FR-ES-IT-RO-DE-HR
09:00-10:00 – OPENING SESSION
Welcome remarks by Michel Dantin MEP
Keynote speech by Mariya Gabriel, EU Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society
Keynote video message from Phil Hogan, EU Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development
Opening address by Eric Masset, Chair of the Working Party on Dried Fodder, Copa-Cogeca
10:00-10:30 – RESTITUTION
EFSA – Presentation by EFSA on the state of play of the EU Bee Partnership
Dr Bach Kim Nguyen, University of Liège, BeeOdiversity – Summary of the scientific symposium and the recommendations from the workshops of the BeeWeek 2018
10:30-12:00 – PANEL 1: European strategy for bees – What EU policy for bees and pollination?
Chaired by Michel Dantin MEP
Jens Schaps, Director for Common Market Organisations for agricultural products, DG AGRI, European Commission – What actions for the beekeeping sector in the future CAP 2021-2027
Stefan Leiner, Head of Unit for the Biodiversity, DG Environment, European Commission – What to expect from the EU Pollinators Initiative
DG SANCO, European Commission – Bee health and access to medicines for bees
Luc Bas, Director of IUCN European Union representative Office, International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
Norbert Erdös, Member of European Parliament – Presentation of the INI report of the European Parliament on the perspective and challenges in the apiculture sector
Questions and answers
**** Lunch break (1h30) – provided by the EU Beeweek ****
13:30-15:00 – PANEL 2: Honey production, mobilising all stakeholders from the fields to the spoon
Chaired by Mairead McGuiness MEP
Nataša Lilek, Slovenian Beekeepers Association – Honey consumption and promotion schemes
Alain Maquet, Joint Research Center, European Commission – Consumers’ trends of honey consumption and Honey adulteration
Victorio Manuel Collado Alcalá, Cooperativas Agro-alimentarias (Spain) – Origin labelling and apiculture national programme, case study: Spain
Flora Schmitlin, Mondelez, Lu Harmony Charter – Mobilisation of the food industry to support bees and good quality honey production
Amélie Mandel, Bees Biodiversity Network – The tool box for farmers to help protect bees
Questions and answers
15:00-16:30 – PANEL 3: New technologies, digitalisation and big data to help protect Bees
Chaired by MEP (tbd)
European Space Agency, (tbd)
Dr Bach Kim Nguyen, University of Liège, BeeOdiversity – Start-up BeeOmonitoring
Jospeh Cazier, Ph.D, Director of the Center for Analytics Research and Education, Appalachian State University, Chief Analytics Officer – HiveTracks
Questions and answers
16:30-16:45 – CLOSING SESSION
Concluding remarks of the High-level Conference and the EU BeeWeek 2018 by Michel Dantin MEP
