The Chamber of Deputies’ plenum on Wednesday adopted the draft aquaculture law, after this normative act was reexamined by Parliament, at the request of the Constitutional Court (CCR).
The purpose of the law is to ensure the competitiveness of the aquaculture activity, in the context of sustainable development and to contribute to the economic growth of rural areas, according to the initiators.
„This law regulates the legal framework regarding the activity of aquaculture and the marketing of products obtained from aquaculture, when these activities are carried out on the territory of Romania, including in the marine waters under the national jurisdiction of Romania, through: the organisation and administration of the aquaculture sector, the privatisation of companies regulated by the Companies Law No. 31/1990, republished, with fishing profit, of fishing facilities and the lands on which they are located, belonging to the state, the management of companies and the regime of concession or lease of lands in the public and private property of the state on which fishing facilities and the lands related to them are located, regardless of the owner, except for those located within the perimeter of the ‘Danube Delta’ Biosphere Reserve, the application of the legal regime of lands in the public and private domain of the state on which fishing facilities and the lands related to them are located,” the draft law stipulates.
According to it, the responsibility for defining and implementing aquaculture policy lies with the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, through the National Agency for Fisheries and Aquaculture (ANPA).
„The allocation/establishment of aquaculture areas, the identification of existing or potential sites and the functional structure of fisheries facilities must take into account the social, economic, environmental and governance objectives of sustainable development, regardless of the holder of the right to administer or use the water body, the land or the fisheries facility. The aquaculture area consists of a hydrological system suitable for aquaculture and which partially or entirely comprises a hydrographic basin from the sources to the confluence, a water body, a coastal area, on the shore or at sea, designated for the practice of aquaculture. The designation of marine aquaculture areas and in reservoirs is made at the proposal of the ANPA, by decision of the Government,” stipulates the normative act.
The legislative initiative was adopted, in the reexamined version, by the Senate, and the Chamber of Deputies is the decision-making body in this case. AGERPRES
