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Aquaculture legislation:
too much or not enough ?
GABRIEL POPESCU – NATIONAL AGENCY FOR FISHING AND
AQUACULTURE
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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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