EU Pollinators Initiative
June 2018
Adoption
COM(2018) 395
May 2021
Review
COM(2021) 261
January 2023
Revision
COM(2023) 35
Inter-institutional feedback
Comprehensive stakeholder consultation
Proposal for a Nature Restoration Law
© Hugues Mouret (Arthropologia)
New action framework
42 actions across 3 pillars:
I.
Knowledge: monitoring, Key Pollinator Areas
II. Threats: agriculture, pesticides, conservation
plans, “Buzz Lines”
III. Mobilisation and strategic planning: citizens
& businesses; national strategies, regional and
local plans
Monitoring-relevant actions
Action 1: monitoring and indicators
Finalise and deploy EUPoMS (2026)
Action 3: capacity raising
Experts (taxonomists), tools (species identification, data
infrastructure)
Actions 10 and 11: mobilisation of actors
Citizen science, stakeholder collaboration
EU funding: CAP, Cohesion p., LIFE, Horizon Europe
NRL indicators
Grassland butterfly index Article 9(2)(a)
Pollinator indicator(s)
Article 8
eBMS & EUPoMS
Complementarity
Granularity
Timeframe
Update on EUPoMS development
STING II project: methodological development
incl. data infrastructure; STING III in preparation
SPRING project: testing & piloting in all 27 MS,
expert training, tools
TETTRIs: expert training
European Red List of Insect Taxonomists
Orbit and Taxofly: identification tools
EUBP Working Group on Pollinators
Thank you!
#EUPollinators
Small, precious and in need of protection!
EU Pollinator Information Hive
