Note prepared by the EU RL for Bee Health (Laboratory of  Anses Sophia Antipolis)   Updated news (29th December 2015)   This article will no longer be updated. A new article on the surveillance of Aethina tumida in Italy in 2016 has been created here.   To see the details of the outbreaks observed in 2014 and the state of play of the situation early 2015, please click here.       

One proficiency-test will be organized by the EU RL in 2016. It will follow the proficiency test performed in 2015 and it will aim at evaluating the specificity of the real-time RT-PCR method for the detection and quantification of the chronic bee paralysis virus (CBPV) in bees. More information related to the time schedule will come soon.

Additional data editing were performed on the EPILOBEE data leading to new calculations. Thus, a revised version of the EPILOBEE 2012-2014 report with corrected figures was produced. You can check out this new document, available on the European Commission website (click here).

Note prepared by the EU RL for Bee Health (Laboratory of  Anses Sophia Antipolis)   Updated news (as of March 16 2015)   This article will no longer be updated. A new article on the surveillance of Aethina tumida in Italy in 2015 has been created here.