The establishment of origin of bumble bees
Article 69
Consignments of bumble bees shall only be permitted to enter the Union if the bumble bees of the consignment: (a) have been bred and kept in an environmentally isolated bumble bee production establishment which: (i) has facilities which ensure that the production of bumble bees is carried out inside of a flying insect-proof building; (ii) has facilities and equipment which ensure that the bumble bees are further isolated in separate epidemiological units and each colony in closed containers within the building throughout the whole production; (iii) the storage and handling of pollen within the facilities is isolated from the bumble bees throughout the whole production of bumble bees until it is fed to them; (iv) has standard operating procedures to prevent the entry of small hive beetle into the establishment and to regularly survey for the presence of small hive beetle within the establishment; (b) within the establishment referred to in point (a), the bumble bees must come from an epidemiological unit in which infestation with Aethina tumida (Small hive beetle) has not been detected.