The EU RL for Bee Health held its 14^th annual workshop on 24^th October 2024 in Sophia Antipolis (France).

The participants had the pleasure to listen to two presentations of NRLs’ activities and the current honey bee health status in Belgium by Severine Matthijs (Head of the Belgium NRL) and in Slovakia by Miriam Kantikova (representative of the Slovakian NRL).

Franco Mutinelli, head of the Italian NRL, presented an overview of 10 years living with SHB Calabria region.  This year, a focus was done on bacteriology activities. The EU RL presented the results of an inter-laboratory proficiency test organised for the NRL network in 2023. Delphine Panziera, head of the Dutch NRL, showed the results of a national study on the prevalence of P. larvae in the Netherlands.

The EU RL also presented highlights of two scientific conferences on bee health held in 2024 (Apimondia in June and EurBee in September). The workshop ended by the presentation of the EU RL activities during the last period and the work perspectives.

We warmly thank all the speakers for their interesting presentations and all the contributors for the fruitful discussions.

Documents and presentations of the workshop can be found here for the NRL network.