Legislation measures

Apply penalties to the companies producing gear and other items used in the aquaculture sector that do not put in place prevention measures.

Regulations Regulations

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Relevant type of aquaculture:

Fish Shellfish Seaweed

Relevant sea basin:

Baltic

Relevant stage:

Prevention and reduction

Related Barriers:

  • The externalities of litter in the environment are not internalised into the costs of single use plastic items used in aquaculture facilities. This is one of the reasons why there is limited economic incentive to develop or choose items with a better environmental footprint.

  • Top-down (legal) approaches are absent to forbid easy to lose single-use plastic items.

  • Companies outside the EU are not included into those approaches which lreduces competetiveness of EU companies

Related Good Practice:

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