Article 2U.K.
Regulation (EC) No 917/2004 is amended as follows:
Article 1 is replaced by the following:
“Article 1
The national programmes referred to in Article 105 of Council Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007(1) (hereinafter referred to as ‘the apiculture programmes’) shall:
describe the situation in the sector making it possible to update regularly the structural data in the study referred to in Article 107 of Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007, covering in particular the following:
total number of beekeepers;
number of professional beekeepers with more than 150 hives each;
total number of hives;
honey production;
list of aims of the programme;
give a detailed description of the measures involved, with estimated costs and financing plan broken down by year at national and regional level, according to the following headings:
technical assistance to beekeepers;
control of varroasis;
rationalisation of transhumance;
analyses of honey;
restocking of hives;
applied research programmes;
refer to the applicable laws, regulations and administrative provisions;
list the representative organisations and bee-keeping cooperatives that collaborated with the competent authority of the Member State in drawing up the apiculture programmes;
set up the monitoring and assessment arrangements of the apiculture programmes.”
In Article 6, the third paragraph is replaced by the following:
“By 15 December each year, Member States shall notify the Commission of a summary of the implementation of expenditure broken down according to the headings referred to in Article 1(b).”
The following Article 6a is inserted:
“Article 6a
The notifications referred to in this Regulation shall be made in accordance with Commission Regulation (EC) No 792/2009(2).”