aquaculture legislation: too much or not...

Aquaculture legislation:

too much or not enough ?

GABRIEL POPESCU – NATIONAL AGENCY FOR FISHING AND

AQUACULTURE

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4th International Carp Conference, Zagreb, September 21st – 22nd , 2017

What is aquaculture?

Aquaculture - refers to the breeding, rearing, and harvesting of

plants and animals in all types of water environments including

ponds, rivers, lakes, and the ocean.

Types of production unit: in ponds, tanks, pools, dam lakes, reservoirs, cages or raceways or any other installation

Types of activities based on aquaculture:

stock restoration or "enhancement"

production of ornamental fish

growing plant species used in a range of food, pharmaceutical, nutritional and biotechnology products.

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Legislation involved in aquaculture

business

Land

Water

Veterinarian

Environment

Aquaculture

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Authorisation process

Step 5 Aquaculture

Step 4 Environment

Step 3 Veterinarian

Step 2 Water

Step 1 Land

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Step 1 - Land user rights

Ownership

Private

Public

State owned

Lease on 25 -49 years

Local community owned

Lease on 10 – 25 years

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Step 2 – Water rights and approvals

Contracting a volume of

water yearly

Obtaining water

management

authorisation

Obtaining Safe

Managament

authorisation of the dams

(for pools)

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Step 3 – Veterinarian registration

The registration is quite

simple to obtain if you

only deliver fresh or live

fish to the market.

Authorisation is only

needed for processed fish

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Step 4 - Environment

Inside a protected

area

Outside a pretected

area

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More steps on 4 - Environment

Inside a protected area

Study on the environmental

impact of the activity (for

intensive);

Data on the capacities, farmed

species, pollution sources etc;

Geographic coordinates;

Protected species and numbers

Custodian approval

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More steps on 5 - Environment

Outside a protected area

Data on the capacities, farmed species,

pollution sources etc;

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Step 5- Aquaculture

the farm data sheet;

a document proving a legal property /ownership/ right or right

of use

the farm setup and the location map;

the ID of the owner/user;

a copy of the articles of association for the company;

tax registration document;

environmental authorisation;

water management authorisation and/or aquaculture

notification

sanitary-veterinary registration;

up-to-date certificate from the National Registry of Commerce

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Licencing situation in Romania

No The progress of administrative

procedures

Existed in 2013 Estimated in

2017

Estimated in 2020

1 Number of new licenses 518 50 60

2 Success rate of license requests 70% 90% 100%

3 Number of license request in progress 0 0 0

4 Licensing time average

(month)

4 1 1

5 Number of public authorities involved

in licensing procedure

4 1 1

6 Average costs for obtaining new

license (EUR)

75 75 75

7 License validity Without limit Without limit Without limit

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Authorisation process timing

Step 5 Aquaculture – 30 days

Step 4 Environment – 90 days to 1 year

Step 3 Veterinarian – 30 days

Step 2 Water – 60 days to 1 year

Step 1 Land – 90 days to many years

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Authorisation process costs

Step 5 Aquaculture – 75 EUR

Step 4 Environment – 250 EUR to 1000 EUR

Step 3 Veterinarian – 100 EUR

Step 2 Water – 350 EUR to 3500 EUR

Step 1 Land – less than 100 EUR

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Authorisation validity

Step 5 Aquaculture – unlimited

Step 4 Environment – 5 years

Step 3 Veterinarian – unlimited

Step 2 Water – 2 to 10 years

Step 1 Land – up to 49 years

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Main issues during authorisation process

Same papers given to State institutions;

Authorisation is telling what the Law sais;

No unitary practices in the same

institution;

Too many regulators for aquaculture;

Authorisation validity sets the farmer’s in

a perpetual authorisation process;

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Conclusions

More intense dialogue between the European Commission, National Regulators and the stakeholders on cutting the red-tape;

More support to pond based aquaculture as a model of sustainable integrative practice;

Stop the unfair competition among farmers inside and outside NATURA 2000

Promote pond based, multi-trophic aquaculture as a good practice example for ecosystem services;

Use an integrative authorisation for aquaculture containg all the requirements in terms of land, water, veterinary, environmental named Aquaculture Licence;

Advisory Council for Aquaculture should have a consistent pond based farmers participation.

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Do we need an European Aquaculture Act? 18


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