EBA
EUROPEAN BEEKEEPING ASSOCIATION

Today is the first day of the visit of the EU Commissioner for Agriculture. He convinced me personally. At a joint meeting with agricultural organizations today, I highlighted: 1. Excellent cooperation between beekeepers and farmers, since 2011 in Slovenia without mass bee deaths – let’s transfer good practice to the EU and thus reduce bee […]

Apicultores de la Unio, Valencia, Spain confirmed that it is joining the European Beekeeping Association!  

Flemish Bee Institute confirmed that it is joining the European Beekeeping Association!  

Jessika Roswall, Commissioner for the Environment, Water Resilience and a Competitive Circular Economy, recorded a short video to mark World Bee Day THERE.     Did you know that over 80% of Europes wild plants and crops rely on pollinators like bees to bear fruits and seeds? Bees offer their services for free.Yet we take […]

During our visit to the European Parliament, we also met with the Greens MEPs, Mr Weitz and Mr Prebelič. Both are aware of the crucial importance of beekeeping for food security and nature conservation. They expressed their willingness to help establish contacts with the coordinators of the political groups responsible for the Committee on Agriculture […]

The linden tree is one of the symbols of Slovenia, in Slovenia beekeeping is a way of life and that is why on World Bee Day, which was declared by the UN on 20 December 2017 at the initiative of the Slovenian Beekeepers’ Association, we distributed a jar of linden honey to all EU members […]

Beekeeping Association of Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina confirmed that it is joining the European Beekeeping Association!      

  THE EIGHTH WORLD BEE DAY – UNFAIR COMPETITION FROM FAKE HONEY THREATENS BEEKEEPING AND, ABOVE ALL, MISLEADS CONSUMERS!   World Bee Day was declared by the United Nations in New York on December 20, 2017, following a 2014 initiative by the Slovenian Beekeepers’ Association and with great effort from the whole of Slovenia, receiving […]

Jessika Roswall, Commissioner for the Environment, Water Resilience and a Competitive Circular Economy, received the EBA leadership today via video conference. We presented the Commissioner with the importance of bees for the environment, especially that bees are an indispensable part of the environment, that they perform a pollination service, care for biodiversity and provide a […]

The European Commission convened the second meeting of the Honey Platform. EBA representatives, Prof. Dr. Andreas Thrasyvoulou and Dr. Urška Ratajc, attended the online meeting on 7 May 2025. The meeting focused on three main topics: (1) enzymatic activity in honey; (2) criteria for pollen content in honey; and (3) the establishment of efficient traceability […]