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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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Legal Battles
The abrogation of Decree 54/1984 did not quite solve all problems. Though IITEA benefits of the former Decree 370/1970, the term “economic annex” does not fit into the legal persona category allowed to operate in Romania. Therefore, IITEA has been registered as a foreign representation with no right to hold property on real estate and to develop production activities. Consequently, it is urgently necessary to register IITEA in a legal framework provided by the Romanian law and which is not different from what other European nations have. Discussions were held within the Managing Committee meetings, Dr. Schieferstein received the task of considering the situation and IITEA asked a few specialized legal organizations to search and provide assessment and solutions to the existing situation. All papers were translated into German and English languages, sent to Asger Jorgensen, President of Apimondia, Dr. Schieferstein and Apimondia Rome. In a private discussion in Durban (November 2001) with Cristian Constantinescu and Marta Giogia, Dr. Schieferstein agreed that the most acceptable solution would be to transform IITEA into an NGO - Foundation. Later on, upon receipt of all papers in English, President Asger Jorgensen also approved on making the necessary steps related to the new status of Foundation.
For the time being, believe it or not, IITEA is again on “illegal” ground having no right to operate as a lucrative company. Now that we draw the attention of Romanian authorities to the present status of IITEA we have to speed up the process of getting IITEA into one of the legal frameworks provided by the law. We at IITEA are in full process of getting it done through the Court. The steps we are taking are closely coordinated by our lawyer Mr. Galis of “Puiu House.” The final product will be a Foundation, founded by Apimondia, member of Apimondia (not an “economic annex” which is interpreted as representation/branch/affiliate) and run by Apimondia. In other words this means that the present IITEA Rules will become the Status of the new Apimondia Foundation, with a few necessary changes.
IITEA Activities
Since its being established, the Institute achieved the following:
- took an active part in organizing and preparing the APIMONDIA international Congresses and symposia;
- granted technical assistance to the beekeeping organizations, mainly in the developing countries;
- organized international beekeeping exhibitions;
- organized apicultural tourism;
- put out promotional works and materials on beekeeping;
- organized international post-graduate lectures;
- organized, co-ordinated, intermediated, or carried out economic operations and activities aimed at developing and increasing the profitableness of beekeeping;
- acted as an agent in commercial transactions among the member states of APIMONDIA;
- co-operated with FAO, for publishing "Agrindex" and "Agrovoc";
- co-operated with ECOSOC, OMS, UNESCO in its position of member of the International Federation of Beekeeping Associations, which enjoys an advisory status with the UN;
- the APIMONDIA Publishing House edited specialized works, such as the proceedings of each International Beekeeping Congress (starting with the 20th Congress, held in Bucharest), as well as the proceedings of all international symposia organized under the aegis of APIMONDIA. These, as well as a whole series of "technical recommendations", which referred to a lot of practical matters of beekeeping, were published in the five official languages of the Federation. The Publishing House printed several other specialized works by renowned scientists, such as Prof. Dr. Ruttner ('Instrumental Insemination of Queen Bees', 'Queen Beesc Rearing'), G.C. Ricciardelli d'Albore ('Mellisopalinology'), R.F.A. Moritz ('Instrumental Insemination'), A.S. Nuzhdin ('Bases of Beekeeping'), Prof. Dr. G.A. Avetisiyan ('Beekeeping'), M. Gonnet and G. Vache ('Taste of Honey'), Eva Crane ('Honey'), J. Louveaux ('Bees and Beekeeping').
Also were published books of general interest, such as M. Maeterlinck ('Life of Bees'), 'Propolis', 'Apitherapy Today', 'Honey and Other Natural Products' (by Dr. D.C. Jarvis), 'Honey Cook Book', 'Colouring Books for Children' etc. Together with IBRA, there were published the vols. V, VI, VII, and VIII of the cDictionary of Beekeeping Terms'. By request, the Institute also published works in other fields of activity.
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