Association of German Tree Nurseries

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The Federation of German Tree Nurseries (BdB) eV is the professional association and interest group for tree nurseries in Germany, based in Berlin. As a representative of the approximately 1,000 affiliated companies, the BdB has the task of strengthening the tree nursery industry internally and externally, making it competitive and keeping it competitive. The BdB is divided into 16 regional associations, in which for the most part small and medium-sized companies are organized.

Interests and goals

The BdB advocates green cities and landscapes. In addition to public parks, this also includes private gardens. In addition, greater state investments in the “urban green” area are among the interests of the federal government. The association calls for an investment program that stipulates a quota of five percent of the construction cost for living greenery for all new building projects, especially in cities. This also includes the creation of an infrastructure for care by specialists from the BsB. The area of ​​"tree research" in the operations of the association is supported in order to identify site-appropriate trees and shrubs and use them for natural air improvement. The association is also committed to the preservation and protection of the avenue trees and calls for a national strategy for green urban development that brings together all government, scientific and professional experts.

The BdB supports the authorities in their measures to prevent new pests such as the Asian longhorn beetle or the Caribbean fungus Xylella fastidiosa from spreading in Germany. It sets standards for consistent quality and a defined shape for nursery trees. These quality regulations are described in the "Quality regulations for tree nursery plants" set of rules of the Research Society for Landscape Development Landscaping (FLL), which is part of DIN . In addition to these quality regulations, the BdB is the author of further qualitative standards. The "certified brand tree nurseries" represented by the association are all certified according to the standard of the common agricultural policy of the EU. Together with the Bundessortenamt , the BdB traditionally operates the so-called “German tree inspection” and the “ General German rose novelty test ”. The local woody plants required by the federal legislature for use in the wild are checked and certified by the certification association of local woodland plants with external auditors.

education

The BdB promotes the training occupation of the tree nursery gardener. He implements this with his advertising campaign “Future Green”. The companies affiliated to the association are supported in their training advertising. This includes that the association encourages its members to hold open days for schoolchildren.

organization

The bodies of the BdB, the members' committee , the Bureau and the Main Committee .

The general assembly consists of member representatives from the regional associations. It decides on all matters (e.g. election of the members of the Presidium, resolutions on amendments to the statutes), insofar as they are not expressly assigned to the other organs of the BdB by the statutes.

The BdB is headed by a six-member presidium and consists of the president, vice-president and treasurer . Together they form the board of the association.

The main committee consists of the executive committee and the chairmen of the 16 regional associations as well as the branch associations. It decides on operational issues of importance and can advise the Presidium.

More than 30 voluntary committees discuss and work on current issues within the association at federal level. They advise the Presidium on all questions that arise from the areas of work assigned to them. The working bodies of the BdB are divided into the areas of economic policy, production and marketing and each deal with a clearly defined sub-area of ​​production and trade in woody plants.

The activities carried out by the voluntary office are supported at the federal level by the BdB general manager and six full-time employees in the BdB federal office in Berlin . In addition, there is the Bund deutscher Baumschulen Service Gesellschaft mbH (BSG). The work of the association is done by volunteer entrepreneurs in the tree nursery industry.

The network of the tree nursery industry also includes further activities in other institutions. The association is involved in the “The Green City” foundation, of which it is one of the founders. In 2015, with the help of the brochure “Trees in the City”, numerous municipalities were informed about the growth conditions and the effects of trees in urban areas. As a co-partner of the German Federal Garden Show Society (DBG), the BdB opened the 2015 Federal Garden Show .

The Bund deutscher Baumschulen is a member of the European Nursery Stock Association (ENA) and has been an official lobby association at the European Parliament since 2014. In 2015, ENA was involved in the tree nursery industry in the EU Plant Protection Directive, the new regulations on invasive species and the rules for international plant traffic.

The BdB includes the service company Bund deutscher Baumschulen Service Gesellschaft mbH (BSG) , which was founded in 1996 with the aim of promoting the tree nursery industry. The main business of the BSG is the maintenance and sale of an article stock with over 300,000 wood and perennial articles. In addition, the nationwide inspection of native trees is organized, a quality assurance system that meets the requirements of the Federal Nature Conservation Act (Section 40, Paragraph 4). In addition, the BSG handles the quality tests of the General German Rose Novelty Test (ADR) and the certified brand tree nurseries.

numbers

  • Tree nurseries: 1,800 (2013) = 25.4% of all horticultural businesses
  • Total workforce: 11,400 (2013)
  • Apprentices : 828 (2013)
  • Cultivated areas: 23,900 ha (2013) = 9.2% of the horticultural areas
  • Production value / sales revenue (estimated for 2014): 829 million euros (2014) = 16.2% of horticultural revenues

Source: Earnings situation in horticulture and viticulture 2015 with data from the 2013/14 financial year, BMEL (using information from the Federal Statistical Office )

literature

  • Chronicle of the German tree nursery industry 1907–2007, tree nursery history of the last century , BdB-Verlag

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Press release for a so-called Green Paper ( Memento from July 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Demands for the creation of an infrastructure ( Memento of November 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Position related to the avenues ( Memento from July 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Demands for a national strategy ( Memento of November 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Results of a woodland inspection
  6. ↑ Internet page about the general German rose novelty test