"Leads me to a couple of questions,
is the code legally binding?
who is regularly checking for varroa and what method do you find the easiest?"
It is when you're sprung breaking it, 220... and it will happen as today there
exists a polar shift in Australia into "dobber dialup"... not forgetting the
prolific use of GoPros.
I am young enough to remember the Great Banana Plant Purge for "bunchy top"
of the '60s, and more recently the papaya fruit fly control;
http://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2014-07-23/new-fruit-fly-advisory-committee-welcomed/5617116In a worst case you can expect anyone selling bee products anywhere to be
watched and investigated. Well, maybe not the worst... as in the bunchy top purge
there were officers driving the streets, and with a "Right to Enter" backed up to
your yard and removed every banana plant inclusive of stumps.
And all one could do was weep.
Cheers.
Bill