conservation of fish stocks

Aid in the livestock sector targets support for the maintenance and improvement of the genetic quality of EU livestock.

experience has shown that these aids should be maintained only where they really contribute to the maintenance and improvement of the genetic quality of livestock; aids aimed at covering part of the cost of keeping individual male breeding animals cannot be considered as meeting this objective, as they only relieve farmers of costs they should normally bear in their activity.

the Community guidelines for State aid in the agriculture sector 2000–2006 have established rules governing the granting of aids in the livestock sector; the purpose of these aids was to support the maintenance and improvement of the genetic quality of Community livestock.

48. Reaffirms that the Commission considers honeybees to be a domesticated species, and therefore a livestock sector, which facilitates better health, welfare and protection measures and makes for better information on conserving wild pollinators; calls, therefore, for a bee health protection strategy to be established and for the beekeeping sector to be incorporated into agricultural legislation and veterinary legislation taking account of its specific character, particularly with regard to compensation for beekeepers' losses in their bee population;