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Apimedica and Apiquality International Forum 2008
Rome, Italy 9-12 June 2008
1st Announcement
Symposium on General Management and Best Beekeeping Practice
"Beekeeping Simple and Clear"
Bucharest - Romania
September 11-14, 2008
The XXXXth Apimondia Congress
Melbourne, Australia
9 – 14 September, 2007
www.apimondia2007.com
Traditional Holiday of Ukrainian Beekeepers
Savior of the Honey Feast Day
Visit to Kiev, August 17-19, 2007
1st Balkan Countries Beekeeping
Congress and Exhibition
29 March – 1 April 2007, Istanbul, Turkey
“Balkan Beekeeping Honeymoon”
Minutes of APIMONDIA Executive Council meeting
Bucharest, Romania,
12th-14th May 2006
APISLAVIA
www.apislavia.org
Balkan Federation of Beekeeping Associations
www.apibalcanica.org
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Prof. Harnaj - President of Apimondia Federation
Prof. Harnaj managed not only to diversify the activities of Apimondia (beekeeping demonstrative centers in Italy, Brazil and the United States, training courses for University post graduates, three to four symposia a year) but also to turn it into a world wide organization with vice-presidents from the United States and USSR. China was also very active at that time. Those were turbulent times with two conflicting economic and political systems, with the Iron Curtain that was a real obstacle. In spite of all problems, Apimondia under Harnaj developed into a real universal organization. The present structure of Apimondia - the Apimondia Statute, its bodies: Executive Council, Standing Commissions and Working Groups - was gradually created by Prof. Harnaj, vigorously supported by Secretary General Sivestro Cannamela. In their paper of 1997 called “History of Apimondia”, Sivestro Cannamela (Italy) and Jean Nivaille (Belgium), under the chapter “A dynamic President and his goals”, referring to Prof. Harnaj pointed out the following: “The presidency of Prof. Harnaj was a volcanic one, his personality being extremely present, and his activity oriented towards a clear and ambitious goal, that of making Apimondia a powerful, multipurpose nucleus, ramified on the world level and, with this aim in view, identifying support to the Federation. In fact his management and leadership were very clear and efficient.” In 1985 Prof. Harnaj was followed by Mr. Raymond Borneck as President of Apimondia.
IITEA - Search of Identity
After December 1989, when the dictatorship in Romania was overthrown, and after a few years of drawbacks due to the accommodation to the new free market system, the main focus of IITEA management was on abrogating the Decree 54/1984. That was achieved in 1997 when the Romanian Beekeeping Law was passed by the Romanian Parliament.
In the period of 1990 - 1995 IITEA had again some difficult times mainly because of the country’s transition to the free market economy but also because of the lack of management orientation. The material resources accumulated in late 80s were drastically diminished, the debts to the state (taxes) increased, the printing production had to face a weak market and an increasingly competitive environment.
In the early 1990, Cristian Constantinescu resigned from his position of IITEA director. He was replaced by biologist Mihaela Serban, Chairman of the Meliferous Flora and Pollination Standing Commission of Apimondia. Mihaela focused more on scientific beekeeping issues and managed to get quite good results in increasing contacts with beekeeping researchers. One great achievement was the international beekeeping training course organized by IITEA together with the Black Sea University in 1993. She also devoted much of her time to help Chief Editor Erika with Apiacta.
In the summer of 1994 Mihaela Serban retired and was followed by Mr. Paltin Nottara. Involved in too many other businesses, Nottara did not pay much attention to IITEA issues. However, he tried to restore the production activity of the printing shop, made small scale investments like the telephone exchange equipment. He also started renting some spare room to the extent of a better distribution of printing activities and storage. Paltin’s wife set up also an editorial and printing company and soon a conflict of interests came up between Nottara’s position as director of IITEA and his wife’s company Ediprint. Most of the IITEA staff was dismissed and re-employed by Ediprint and the IITEA printing shop started to get printing orders through Ediprint.
In the summer of 1995, during his leave in Rome, Cristian Constantinescu was requested by Silvestro Cannamela to rejoin the IITEA Managing Committee. Secretary General Riccardo Jannoni was also present at that meeting and approved the move. Later on that year (December 18, 1995) President Borneck re-appointed Cristian Constantinescu in the position of IITEA director.
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