Breakfast directive: The Beekeepers Federation thanks the Italian MEPs for voting on more transparent honey labels

«The historic position of the Federation of Italian Beekeepers (FAI), anticipating the obligation to indicate the geographical origin of honey and the percentages in the case of mixtures, is supported unanimously by the Agriculture Commission of the European Parliament. The choices expressed today on the "Breakfast Directive", which mainly concerns consumers but also us beekeepers, lead to greater transparency of labels and strengthen the action to combat honey fraud. On our part, we deserve to thank all the Italian MEPs who defended our beekeeping with their convinced vote." Thus the national president of the Beekeepers Federation, Raffaele Cirone, comments with satisfaction on the decisions taken today in Brussels. The package of legislative proposals, known as the "Breakfast Directive", in fact contains various hypotheses for modifying the Honey Directive 2001/110/EC: a provision that Italian beekeepers, together with a large part of their European colleagues, have always ...