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The Senate passed the report by 23 votes in favour and 6 against. (Photo: Senado.cl)
Congress passes modifications of aquaculture law
CHILE
Friday, March 12, 2010, 00:40 (GMT + 9)
The House of Representatives has passed the Joint Commission’s proposal on
the bill that modifies the General Fisheries and Aquaculture Law (LGPA) by 51 votes in favour, 21 against and 3 abstentions.
The Senate also opined on the modifications carried out by the Commission, and passed the report by 23 votes in favour and 6 against.
As such, and after prolonged debates, the bill is now ready for enactment.
Prior to the passage, both legislative chambers diverged on several matters: mortgages, anti-union practices and grounds for lapsing.
The new bill establishes that, notwithstanding other legal businesses, mortgages can be constituted on the concession or aquaculture authorisation.
The Senate modified that regulation to stipulate that the mortgage will be extended on the rights of use and enjoyment that the concession grants, in addition to other relative matters.
The initiative contemplates an aquaculture concession term that will last 25 years, renewable for an equal period, unless 50 per cent of the environmental reports have been negative or grounds for lapsing are verified, Diario Financiero reports.
In addition, no person or company will be able to apply for aquaculture concessions that represent more than 20 per cent of the total concessionary surface area of a region.
The grounds for lapsing were also replaced, among other points.
This law bill, which will regulate Chilean aquaculture, is key for the bailout of the salmon farming industry, under siege by outbreaks of viral infectious salmon anaemia (ISA), first felt in 2007.
This disease caused losses in the millions of dollars and fuelled a sanitary and labour crisis in the national salmon farming industry.
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By Analia Murias
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