MEPs have warned that the Union’s beekeepers face a bleak future

Date: 12/06/1997

unless further action is taken to protect them. Christian Democrat Astrid Lulling from Luxembourg said the Commission's current plans for the sector were inadequate. Calling for significant changes to Agriculture Commissioner Franz Fischler's latest proposals on the production and marketing of honey, Lulling warned that production was threatened by factors such as the rise in the average age of beekeepers and the spread of the fatal varroasis disease.