The coalition agreement: The long road to more protection for bees

In the coalition agreement emphasize the CDU and the SPD, the protection of the bees. Because Without pollination there is no crop. The implementation causes problems.

By Birgit Schmeitzner, BR

at the beginning of their term, coined by Federal agriculture Minister Julia Klöckner the sentence: "bees are relevant to the system". The CDU-politician was as a Maxim, to take everything from the market, what a pity the animals. The free land ban of three Neonicotinoids last year, was a first step. The ban was imposed in the EU on the basis of the so-called bee guideline.

In the guideline of the European authority EFSA deals with the risk assessment of pesticides. This first step was followed by no further. Quite the contrary, Some EU countries have granted for the prohibited substances an emergency admission.

the member of The Bundestag Harald Ebner, the agricultural expert of the Greens, certainly in view that manufacturers and farmers have a legitimate economic interests. But it penetrates also to the fact that "it is not at the end of short-term economic interests win at the expense of sustainability". Ebner refers to the coming generations. For you need to preserve the functioning of Ecosystems. Enough strict authorisation procedure for pesticides.