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Stowarzyszenie Producentów Ryb Łososiowatych/Polish Trout Breeders Association

SPRŁ/PTBA

Celem SPRŁ jest: 1. zrzeszanie producentów ryb łososiowatych oraz innych perspektywicznych rynkowo gatunków ryb i organizmów wodnych, a także innych podmiotów, których działalność obejmuje wspieranie rozwoju akwakultury, w tym zwłaszcza pracodawców branżowych, 2. reprezentacja interesów branży przed organami władzy państwowej i samorządowej w zakresie istotnych dla niej spraw, 3. wypracowywanie oraz wdrażanie systemów standaryzacyjnych w zakresie produkcji ryb łososiowatych oraz innych perspektywicznych rynkowo gatunków ryb i organizmów wodnych, umożliwiających certyfikację oraz audyt producentów spełniających wymagania takich systemów, 4. opracowywanie, popularyzacja i wdrażanie wśród członków stowarzyszenia, rozwiązań mających wpływ na stabilizację dochodów m.in. poprzez poprawę warunków sprzedaży i podnoszenie wartości dodanej produktów akwakultury, 5. prognozowanie produkcji członków Stowarzyszenia, a także zbieranie danych statystycznych dotyczących produkcji i sprzeda (...)

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Response to EU rules on industrial emissions - revision

20 Apr 2020

PTBA Contribution The Polish Trout Breeders Association (PTBA) fully supports the objectives and means of the European Green Deal. Specifically by taking on and fostering the new growth strategies built in both the Farm to Fork Strategy and the Circular Economy Action Plan that aim to transform the EU into a fair and prosperous society, with a modern, resource-efficient and competitive economy where there are no net emissions of greenhouse gases in 2050 and where economic growth is decoupled from resource use. As the united voice of the fish farming industry in Poland, the PTBA wishes to highlight that aquaculture is currently exhaustively regulated and monitored by European Union, national and regional regulations, amongst others from an environmental perspective already covering the great majority of the aspects of the Industrial emissions directive (IED). Being the aim of the European Green Deal to achieve its objectives in the most effective and least burdensome way, the PTBA thinks that it is not appropriate to include aquaculture into the scope of the Industrial emissions Directive. Aquaculture is not an industrial activity causing significant pollution, and the monitoring and control of effluents and impact from aquaculture on the environment are already taken care of by the existing regulations and directives. The current aquaculture legal framework takes already care of these issues through obligations within the scope of the Water Framework Directive (2000/60/EC), the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (2008/56/EC), the Habitats Directive (92/43/EEC), the Birds Directive (2009/147/EC) and the Environmental Impact Assessment Directive (85/337/EEC), followed by supplementary national and regional rules. The IED is based on several pillars, in particular on an integrated approach, the use of best available techniques (BAT), flexibility, inspections and public participation (https://ec.europa.eu/environment/industry/stationary/ied/legislation.htm). The development of additional BAT for aquaculture at EU-level is strongly advised against due to the great diversity of aquaculture (different species, different water use, different techniques, etc.) and completely different potential environment footprint impacts in the different water bodies. Furthermore, BAT and Codes of conduct are already part of aquaculture regulations in most countries. If aquaculture is included in the revised IED scope its governance will become more complicated with additional unnecessary burdens which is in itself a contradiction to the EU current strategy. Regardless of the adoption by the European Commission of successive Strategies for the Sustainable Development of European aquaculture, reality is that aquaculture in the European Union continues to be in stagnation since the turn of the century, in strong contrast with sustained growth of aquaculture production at global level (FAO State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture http://www.fao.org/fishery/sofia/en). The main reason for this is the extremely complicated legal framework in which it must develop. The European Commission has recommended to “reduce the administrative burden on aquaculture”, and “to simplify administrative procedures and reduce licensing time for aquaculture farms” (https://www.europarl.europa.eu/factsheets/en/sheet/120/european-aquaculture). The PTBA strongly recommends that the revised Industrial emissions Directive does not plays against this objective.
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