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Consultation - Organic bee keeping review

The New Zealand Food Safety Authority invited submissions from all interested parties on a proposal to amend the organic production rules for bee keeping and bee products exported to the European Community.

Closing date

This consultation closed on 28 July 2008.

Consultation documents

• Review of NZFSA technical rules for organic production bee keeping and bee products [Word 77 KB]
• Cover letter

Outcome

NZFSA considered the submissions and drafted revised technical rules for supplementary feeding when the survival of hives is endangered due to bad weather or other exceptional circumstances.

The revised rules include:

• a wider range of supplementary organic feed
• provisions for supplementary feeding for organic queen bee production.

NZFSA notified the amendments to the European Commission. The Commission has confirmed the amendments as equivalent to the European requirements.

The amended supplementary feed provisions are in sections 7.5.2 and 7.5.3 of the technical rules.

NZFSA standard OP3, Appendix 2: NZFSA technical rules for organic production [PDF 265 KB]