>This has raised quite a lot of interest also here in Finland as many 
packages were imported last summer and queens are imported every year 
from Italy.

Same in the UK.  Many of us have campaigned for years to stop imports and now, at last, people are beginning to listen.  Delegates the at the BBKA Annual Delegate Meeting passed a proposition from West Sussex asking for a ban on imports, so now it seems that BBKA will no longer be able to sit on the fence (or perhaps some of them are impaled on it!).

Best wishes

Peter 
52°14'44.44"N, 1°50'35"W

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