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The People's Assembly continues to discuss the draft law establishing the Public Authority for Fish Resources and Aquatic Life

2021-02-14T17:04:17.509Z


Damascus-SANA The People's Assembly continued today in its eleventh session of the second regular session held under the chairmanship of Hammoud


Damascus-Sana

Today, the People's Assembly, in its eleventh session of the second regular session, held under the chairmanship of Hammouda Sabbagh, Speaker of the Assembly, continued the discussion of the draft law that includes the creation of the Public Authority for Fish Resources and Aquatic Life.

At the beginning of the session, the Speaker welcomed the Minister of Agriculture and Agrarian Reform, Eng. Muhammad Hassan Qatna, and the Minister of State for People's Assembly Affairs, Eng. Maloul Al-Hussein.

The members of the Council approved by majority the articles 36 to 52 of the aforementioned draft law, whereby, according to Article 36, the concerned authorities must complete the necessary infrastructure for fishing facilities, while fishing boats must be provided in accordance with Article 37 with the appropriate means to ensure that the catch reaches the market and is suitable for human consumption.

According to Article 38, it is prohibited to fish, land, possess, store, transport, or trade fish and other aquatic organisms without commercial volumes from public waters. According to Articles 39 and 40, fish and aquatic organisms may only be traded in markets that meet the technical health conditions, while administrative units in accordance with Article 41 establish Niche markets for selling and trading patterns and aquatic organisms.

Article 42 indicates the necessity of observing the approved standard specifications when importing fish, aquatic organisms and their products, in addition to other technical and health conditions to ensure the safety of the product. Projects that change the nature of the water media and riparian lands with public waters, according to Article 43, are subject to the conditions set by the concerned public authorities in what is prohibited in accordance with Article 44 Drain industrial, agricultural, health, petroleum, sewage and other wastes that are harmful to fish wealth into public waters.

According to Article 45, coastal marine reserves and wildlife reserves are established by a decision of the Minister of Agriculture, taking into account the principles of preserving biodiversity and the environment, while the authority, according to Article 46, encourages national investments and employs productive capacities in the exploitation of migratory stocks, especially those in pure economic waters.

According to Article 47, the Ministry of Agriculture seeks to achieve economic integration with neighboring countries to ensure the operation of the surplus fishing capacity to employ the expertise, available capital and the equipment available in the exploitation of shared living wealth in the exclusive regional and economic waters in accordance with Law No. 28 of 2003.

According to Article 48, Arab and foreign ships may be granted fishing rights in economic waters, while the administrative units and the General Directorate of Ports, in accordance with Article 50, must provide places to the Fisheries Authority and facilitate the operations of connecting them to water, electricity, telephone networks and other public facilities while the fishing operations are landed from fishing boats and vessels. In the presence of representatives of the authority according to Article 51.

Article 52 also indicates that the owners or managers of fish and aquatic stores must provide the necessary information about fish species, sizes and quantities to the representatives of the authority.

The parliament approved by majority to refer the nineteenth chapter on “penalties” in the draft law to the Constitutional and Legislative Affairs, Agriculture and Water Resources Committees, for further study and preparation of the necessary report on it.

To that, the Council also referred the two draft laws, including “Creating Microfinance Banks” and “Amending Some Articles of Law No. 11 of 2011 Concerning the Ownership of Real Estate by Non-Syrians in the Territories of the Syrian Arab Republic” to the Constitutional and Legislative Affairs Committee to discuss the permissibility of considering them constitutionally and preparing the necessary report.

The meeting rose to 12 noon tomorrow, Monday.

Source: sena

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