
Article 1 
Part 2 of Annex E to Council Directive 92/65/EEC — Health certificate for trade in bees and bumble bees — is amended as follows:

((1)) in entry I.25 a check box is added with the following words: ‘Production (pollination)’;
((2)) in entry I.31 a column is added with words ‘Nature of commodity’ constituting its title and with the following selectable items appearing below the title, each in a separate row: ‘queens, packages of bees, nucleus colonies, colonies’;
((3)) in entry II.1 the following is inserted in point (b), after the word ‘absent’:
'or
(b) 

— it is situated at least 30 km distance from the limits of a protection zone of at least 20 km in radius around confirmed occurrence(s) of the small hive beetle, and
— it is situated outside of a zone restricted by protective measures established by the Union due to the occurrence of small hive beetle, and
— it is situated in an area where annual surveillance for the detection of small hive beetle by the competent authority is ongoing to provide a confidence level of at least 95 % of detecting small hive beetle if at least 2 % of the apiaries were infested, and
— it is inspected every month by the competent authority with negative results to provide a confidence level of at least 95 % of detecting small hive beetle if at least 2 % of the hives were infested, and
— where each cage or the whole consignment is covered by a fine mesh of maximum 2 mm pore size immediately after the visual examination for the health certification;
or
(b) the bumble bees come from an environmentally isolated structure recognised by and under the supervision of the competent authority, which is free of small hive beetle;
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Article 2 
This Decision is addressed to the Member States.
Done at Brussels, 20 November 2017.
For the Commission
Vytenis ANDRIUKAITIS
Member of the Commission