Collection of information relating to the technologies and equipment used for apiary activities in temperate, cold and tropical climates, both for honey production and other additional products: wax, pollen, royal jelly, propolis, venom and brood-comb.

Experiments, then popularisation of these methods and tools through conferences, symposia and Internet

Exchanges with the six other standing commissions for a better understanding of the beekeeping world (biology, economy, pathologies, etc.) and a better choice of technical methods and equipment.

Consultations for the development of the bee-products within the framework of the norms with various organisations such as Codex alimentarius, WHO, FAO, FEEDEM, IHC, HIPA, European Union,...

Collaboration with new experimental fields:

• biological specifications

• bee products pharmaceutical specification (within the context of apitherapy)

• how to manage African bees

• pollination (in open fields and in greenhouses)

• honey harvest with melipones

• use of GPS and GIS

Collection of articles for the magazine Apiaca

Update of www.apimondia.org

Development of databases on:

• behaviour of bee colonies

• beehive material and apiary equipment

• transhumance equipment

• honey house equipment

• suppliers

standards definition

• beehives

• honey houses

checking of technological based activities

• uses of plastic

• uses of pheronomes

• techniques of honey adulteration

Participation

• in the EU Directives on "Honey"

• update of the "Codex Alimentarius"

• collaboration with IHC (International Honey Commission)

Keeping an interactive forum on the net to maintain prompt communication between scientists, experts and beekeepers.