Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2023/110 of 12 January 2023 laying down emergency measures as regards confirmed cases of infestation with small hive beetle (Aethina tumida) in Italy and France and repealing Implementing Decision (EU) 2021/597 (notified under document C(2023) 194) (Only the French and Italian languages are authentic) (Text with EEA relevance)

Article 1

For the purposes of this Implementing Decision the following definitions shall apply:

‘beehive’ means a container used for keeping honeybees or bumble bees;
‘apiary’ means an establishment which keeps honeybees or bumble bees;
‘unprocessed apiculture by-products’ means honey, beeswax, royal jelly, propolis or pollen not intended for human consumption as defined in point 10 of Annex I to Commission Regulation (EU) No 142/2011⁽¹⁾ which have not undergone any processing procedure as referred to in Chapter II, Section 1, Table 2, row 10 of the fourth column of Annex XIV to that Regulation;
‘beekeeping equipment’ means used beehives, parts of beehives and utensils used in an apiary.

Article 2

1.

France and Italy shall ensure that the following emergency measures are implemented in the zones listed in the Annex:

a ban on the dispatch of the following commodities to other zones of the Union:
1. honeybees;
2. bumble bees;
3. unprocessed apiculture by-products;
4. beekeeping equipment;
5. apiculture products in honeycomb intended for human consumption;
the carrying out of surveillance in beehives and apiaries and epidemiological investigations, including:
1. the identification and tracing of movements of the commodities referred to in point (a) to and from apiaries and honey extraction establishments situated in an area of 20 km radius around the beehive(s) where an infestation with Aethina tumida (small hive beetle) has been confirmed;
2. the notification of the results of such surveillance and epidemiological investigations to the Commission.

2.

Based on the results of the surveillance and epidemiological investigations provided for in paragraph 1, point (b), France and Italy may implement additional appropriate emergency measures pursuant to Article 257 of Regulation (EU) 2016/429.

Article 3

This Decision shall apply until 31 December 2026.

Article 4

Implementing Decision (EU) 2021/597 is repealed.

Article 5

This Decision is addressed to the French Republic and the Italian Republic.