Bil, thank you for sending that export of the European standard for organic beekeeping certification.  One request for clarification:
 
Section 4.2(b) sets an unambiguous 3 km radius in which essentially all nectar and pollen sources are from organically produced crops and/or spontaneous vegetation.
 
Section 4.2(c) however requires that the apiary be distant "from any non-agricultural production sources possibly leading to contamination" but does not say how far away is enough.  (Listed examples include: urban centres, motorways, industrial areas, waste dumps, waste incinerators, etc)  Is there any guidance available defining how far is enough for the non-agricultural sources?  For example, have the regulators required you to be 3 km from a motorway?  Or is 300 m enough?
 
I suspect that using these standards it would be impossible to find a qualifying site anywhere in the US (and nearly impossible in most of Europe) and would like to create a map to test that hypothesis.  Don't see how to do that with the ambiguity in 4.2(c), though.

Mike Rossander
www.rossander.org/infosec


      

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