> The European colleagues were generous to allow sharing with us all
> published and unpublished data.  Canada will pay for getting these
> data based on the number of hives in the same way that any European
> country paid for sharing the costs of registration.

> There are regulations administered by the Pest Management Regulatory
> Agency (PMRA), we have to follow these regulations to get the proper
> registration of OA in Canada. Based on work from Quebec colleagues,
> the PMRA accepted the advice of Provincial Apiculturists and the CHC
> to allow the data from Europe and the limited data from Canada (Nasr
> 2001& 2002; Skinner 2002 & 2003; Giovenazzo (Quebec) 2003) in support
> of an application to register the OA in Canada...

Thanks, Medhat, for giving us the facts on this.

Wouldn't it be wonderful if the US beekeepers got on side with us on this
and worked to get approval at the same time we are going through the
process?  The cost might be spread out even more beekeepers, and, in the
end, we would all be playing with the same deck of cards.

C'mon US people.  Write and phone your associations and representaives and
let's all work together on this.

allen
http://www.honeybeeworld.com/diary/

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