The Electroal Assembly of the European Beekeeping Association (EBA), which is headquartered in Slovenia, was held today. By the day of the Assembly, 18 beekeeping organizations from 15 European countries had joined the EBA, with 234,461 beekeepers of the EBA.

Two candidates were proposed for EBA president, Dr. Plamen Ivanov from Bulgaria and Boštjan Noč from Slovenia. Boštjan Noč was elected with 100% of the votes of the delegates present.

The following were elected to the EBA Executive Board: Rodoljub Živadinović (Serbia), Jorge Spiteri (Malta), Stefan Spiegl (Germany) and Tetyana Vasilkivska (Ukraine).
Mende Trajkovski (North Macedonia), Ellmann Torsten (Germany) and Juozas Olekas (Lithuania) were elected to the EBA Supervisory Board, who will elect the president themselves.
Biljana Tomić (Serbia) was elected as the General Secretary of the EBA.

Boštjan Noč said after the election: “Thank you for the trust you showed me in the elections for the president of the EBA. If we want to go one step further for bees, beekeepers and consumers, active and unified action across Europe is absolutely necessary. I will perform my work at EBA with full responsibility, it will be based on connecting everyone who is engaged in beekeeping in the European area. I believe that with a wider team we will contribute to the preservation and development of beekeeping throughout Europe. I think it is most important that we immediately form a scientific (expert) committee for the area of quality and safety of bee products, which will have to include experts from different fields and different areas of Europe.We will start working immediately!”.