EFSA report on risks of spread of small hive beetle

[prakel]

However, and I aint going into this hair splitting but from the wording you quote its not clear if this renders such a shipment 'illegal' or 'not legal'. Apparently they are very different things.

That's quite possibly the case and it's not something I'd want to get involved in discussing either.

If unreported imports are as common as repeatedly stated on here then there's plainly no urgency for a clamp down, compare this to a post by SDM a few weeks ago where he told us of a local bee inspector, giving a talk at their local club, clearly stating that they were being instructed to "come down hard" on people continuing to use unlicenced oxalic mixtures.

[prakel]

As always, some interesting points raised by Calluna4u.

With regard to final consignment being +/- the expected (stated) number, do you think that the people that you've heard of who fail to report their imports would look differently at the paperwork if there was facility to make the pre-arrival declaration but then to have an 'ammendments' window of a couple of days to clear up any discrepencies. Probably too simple a solution where government paperwork is concerned, of course.