I'm a newly qualified Basic Beemaster - and to my dismay I read in the latest BeeCraft magazine about a new qualification created by Lantra Awards that is "... the UK's very first regulated beekeeping qualification."

Now I'm really confused. Initially my confusion was to understand the differences between the Scottish and BBKA routes to becoming a Beemaster (I now understand them to be of equal value) - but where does this new qualification fit in; do we need it; and aren't the Scottish and BBKA qualifications 'regulated'?

Kitta