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Comité national de la conchyliculture

CNC

1° La représentation et la promotion des intérêts généraux de ces activités ; 2° La participation à l'organisation d'une gestion équilibrée des ressources ainsi qu'à la protection, la conservation et la gestion des milieux et écosystèmes contribuant au bon état des ressources conchylicoles ; 3° L'association à la mise en œuvre de mesures d'ordre et de précaution destinées à harmoniser les intérêts de ces secteurs ; 4° La participation à l'amélioration des conditions de production et, d'une manière générale, la réalisation d'actions économiques et sociales en faveur des membres des professions concernées ; 5° La faculté de réaliser des travaux d'intérêt collectif ; 6° La participation à la défense de la qualité des eaux conchylicoles. Le comité national est en outre chargé : 1° De promouvoir les produits issus de la conchyliculture 2° D'améliorer la connaissance du secteur conchylicole et de favoriser l'adaptation quantitative et qualitative de l'offre à (...)

Lobbying Activity

Meeting with Gilles Pennelle (Member of the European Parliament)

25 Feb 2025 · Discussion autour des enjeux de la filière conchylicole

Meeting with Stéphanie Yon-Courtin (Member of the European Parliament)

22 Oct 2024 · Conchyliculture et aquaculture

Meeting with Gilles Pennelle (Member of the European Parliament)

22 Oct 2024 · Discussion autour des enjeux de la filière conchylicole

Meeting with Eric Sargiacomo (Member of the European Parliament)

24 Jul 2024 · Conchyliculture

Meeting with Isabelle Le Callennec (Member of the European Parliament)

24 Jul 2024 · Aquaculture

Meeting with Caroline Roose (Member of the European Parliament)

1 Mar 2024 · Enjeux pour la conchyliculture en France

Meeting with Stéphanie Yon-Courtin (Member of the European Parliament)

29 Feb 2024 · Salon de l'agriculture

Response to Guidance to facilitate the designation of renewables acceleration areas

23 Feb 2024

The French Shellfish Farming Committee would like to draw your attention to key elements to make sure that the acceleration of renewable energy, in particular of offshore windpower, also contributes to the EUs aquaculture development ambitions and to nature protection and restoration. The cultivation of bivalve molluscs, shellfish farming, is of great importance in the EU as it contributes to more than 50% of its aquaculture annual production. Shellfish farming has important social significance in terms of employment, close to 41 000 jobs across the EU, generating wealth at the local level with a 1.17 billion euros of annual turnover in the EU. The French shellfish farming sector is the largest in Europe with an annual production value of 660 million euros. Shellfish farming in Europe is a traditional extensive aquaculture practice that is part of the EU coastal regions identity. With the Farm to Fork Strategy, Europe aims for a significant increase of organic aquaculture. The EUs 2021-2030 Strategic guidelines for a more sustainable and competitive aquaculture call for the promotion of organic aquaculture and encourage the diversification of aquaculture production towards low trophic species such as shellfish and algae. And according to the Science Advice for Policy by European Academies report Food from the Ocean, developing mariculture of marine herbivores such as bivalves will help closing the EUs seafood gap in a sustainable way. Shellfish farming therefore plays a key role in the EUs sustainable food production. Despite these ambitions and more than two decades of aquaculture policy, the EUs aquaculture production is still stagnating as recently recalled in the European Court of Auditors special report 25/2023, and it remains largely dependent on seafood products imports. Better access to the maritime space is a prerequisite to increasing shellfish and potentially algae production, especially for organic production as is the case for offshore wind development. We see the rapid development of offshore renewable energy, which is expected to double by 2030, as an opportunity. Offshore renewable energy development is compatible with increasing shellfish (and developing algae) production in the Europe. But this of course requires that any future construction plans of offshore windfarms integrate, from the start, co-location and multi-use options allowing aquaculture activities, with adequate dialogue and cooperation fora to fully mobilise existing skills and knowledge. Shellfish farming would help restore and compensate for the environmental footprint of windfarms thanks to the shellfish ecosystem services (water filtration, nitrogen sink, carbon absorption, etc.) while providing more healthy seafood, sustainably produced in the EU. We therefore ask the European Commission to: Make sure that the guidance on renewable acceleration areas provides clarity on the articulation with protected areas that must be defined according to the environmental legislation including protected areas for economically significant aquatic species under the Water Framework Directive, and with maritime spatial planning requirements; Ensure that the guidance encourages the identification of areas suitable for both the acceleration of renewables and co-uses at sea, such as energy (storage) with low (and multi)-trophic aquaculture; Help Member States seize the opportunity of offshore RAA designation to launch or accelerate the designation of areas suitable for aquaculture, as foreseen by the EU Aquaculture Strategic Guidelines 2021-2030.
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Meeting with Milan Brglez (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur)

18 Dec 2023 · Water legislation

Meeting with François-Xavier Bellamy (Member of the European Parliament)

9 Nov 2023 · Conchyliculture

Meeting with Caroline Roose (Member of the European Parliament)

25 Oct 2023 · Conchyliculture

Meeting with Nora Mebarek (Member of the European Parliament)

11 Oct 2023 · Conchyliculture

Meeting with Catherine Chabaud (Member of the European Parliament)

11 Oct 2023 · Sujets PECH liés à la conchyliculture

Meeting with Pierre Karleskind (Member of the European Parliament, Committee chair)

14 Nov 2022 · Aquaculture

Meeting with Pierre Karleskind (Member of the European Parliament, Committee chair)

21 Sept 2022 · Aquaculture