LAW OF TURKMENISTAN

of August 18, 2015 No. 266-V

About beekeeping

This Law regulates the legal basis of activities for cultivation, content of honey bees, to their use for pollination of agricultural entomophillous plants, to product receipt of beekeeping, and also protection of honey bees.

Chapter I. General provisions

Article 1. The basic concepts used in this law

In this Law the following basic concepts are used:

1) beekeeping – industry of agricultural industry which is engaged in cultivation of honey bees for receipt of honey, beeswax and other products of beekeeping, and also for pollination of crops for the purpose of increase in their productivity;

2) the beekeeper – the legal entity or physical person which is going in for beekeeping;

3) bee family – the community of honey bees consisting of the working bees, drones and queen bee living in beehive or nest;

4) beehive – the artificial dwelling of bees made by the person;

5) apiary – certain place where beehives with bee families, an also necessary property for occupation beekeeping are placed;

6) stationary apiary – the apiary placed on the permanent place within year;

7) nomadic apiary – the apiary placed with sources of honey harvest or arrays of agricultural entomophillous plants;

8) bee swarm – the new bee family created in the main bee family and which independently took off from it in case of natural swarming;

9) queen bee – female-proizvoditelnitsa of honey bees;

10) beekeeping products – the products made by honey bees (honey, wax and others), and also honey bees;

11) foundation – sheets from wax after special processing for detuning of bee sot;

12) breed of honey bees – the group of bee families created under the influence of natural selection in certain climatic conditions and having complex of the signs which are steadily transferred from generation to generation;

13) population of honey bees – the set of bee families within breed of honey bees created in certain territory and having general gene pool;

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