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Licensing and consents
4 October 2006
Main Issues
- Legislation has developed on an ad hoc and piecemeal basis. The plethora of regulations has inevitably resulted in omissions and overlaps in the marine legislative framework.
- This has led to a complex system to contend with; wasting time and money on unexpected constraints to proposals and generating conflicts between industries.
- The sectoral approach taken has prevented any long term planning or management of activities.
- An integrated, streamlined consents system to which all sectors must be party inc. Oil and Gas.
- Sustainable Development should be at the heart of an integrated licensing regime aligned to ecosystem-based management in the marine environment.
- A simplified sectoral regime that is not integrated would perpetuate the problems of a piecemeal approach that does not balance all stakeholders needs, and would instead promote competition between sectors in an unsustainable, unfair and uncoordinated way.
- Whatever body managed a new integrated licensing regime, would need to be removed from government departments, to enable a truly transparent, fair and balanced consenting process.
Cymraeg
What else is WWF Cymru asking for? Click on the the links below to find out more -
Managing Marine Fisheries
Marine Spatial Planning
Better management of our wildlife
A new management body?
Marine lobbying in Westminster
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What else is WWF Cymru asking for? Click on the the links below to find out more -
Managing Marine Fisheries
Marine Spatial Planning
Better management of our wildlife
A new management body?