Overview of the working plan for APIMONDIA for the period 2004 and 2005

Overview of the working plan for APIMONDIA for the period 2004 and 2005

LJUBLJANA - SLOVENIA

25 - 29 August 2003

In order to fulfil the obligations of APIMONDIA to its members and to the whole apicultural community the secretary general is requested in accordance with the budget to employ staff at our office in Rome to make sure we meet our obligations.

The communications between APIMONDIA and the members and the whole apicultural world must be improved and increased.

The APIMONDIA website www.apimondia.org will be updated with new information and the digital version of APIACTA will be available on the website.

APIMONDIA will work closely together with the Irish Congress Organising Committee to prepare the 39th APIMONDIA congress in Ireland 2005.

APIMONDIA will prepare specialists symposia and seminars, more have been announced.

APIMONDIA will take actions to increase the contacts and the recognition by international organisations.

APIMONDIA will organise an internal workshop to discuss future plans, ideas, goals and strategies for new development in the organisation.

APIMONDIA will request governments and research institutions to pay special attention to the protection and maintenance of indigenous bee races, and to undertake research in order to reduce the risk of disappearance of important genetic material and hence maintain the bee's natural resistance to diseases and its ability to adapt to local climatic conditions.

APIMONDIA recommends against the introduction of species or races of bees to areas where they are not already present, without expert consideration of the consequences. Expert consideration should involve consultation with the APIMONDIA Executive Council.

APIMONDIA will, in collaboration with the ICPR, continue to monitor the possible impact on bees and beekeeping from the further development and commercial use of Genetically Modified Crops. We will pay attention to the use of the foraging behaviour of honeybees for other purposes than pollination purposes.

APIMONDIA will compile and distribute information concerning the, until now underestimated, importance of honeydew as a natural resource for honey production.

APIMONDIA will work on the compiling of information concerning the importance of bees as pollinators of the natural flora. Attention will be given to the conservation of such natural resources for bees that are kept by beekeepers.

APIMONDIA will pay attention to the pollination of crops in the tropics. The consequences for traditional beekeeping and the pollination of plants of the spread of the Varroa mite in Africa will be given special consideration.

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