Syed Hussein Al -Qassab
It aims to control overfishing
The Shura Council will discuss during its session on Sunday, the report of the Public Utilities and Environment Committee regarding a draft law to amend Article 33 of Decree Law No. 20 of 2002 regarding the regulation of hunting, exploitation and protection of marine wealth prepared in light of the proposal of the law submitted by the House of Representatives.
The committee clarified that the draft law aims to tighten the penalties mentioned in Article 33 of Decree Law No. 20 of 2002 regarding the regulation of hunting, exploitation and protection of marine wealth, in the founding of what Paragraph (H) of Article 9 of the Constitution, which states that “the state takes the necessary measures To maintain the environment and preserve the innate life, “because the effectiveness of the criminal penalties contained in the law – the subject of amendment – may diminish Determine it to actions that constitute crimes that threaten the environment and innate life.
The draft law also aims to develop legislative texts in the laws in force and achieve integration between them, to keep pace with the developments and developments that occurred in society, and in the field of hunting and exploitation of marine wealth in particular. On that behavior on marine wealth, in light of the Kingdom’s endeavor to protect natural resources from the constitutional text In Article 11, “All natural resources and their resources belong to the state, are based on preserving them and their good investment, taking into account the requirements of the state’s security and its national economy.”
The committee emphasized that what the draft law has increased to the penalties is to activate the constitutional principle by preserving marine wealth and organizing its investment in a manner that does not lead to its destruction and destruction, on top of which is the fish wealth, which is one of the most important foundations of the national food security system.
She pointed out that the draft law will achieve deterrence with its general and private parts by increasing the penalties corresponding to the commission of criminal behaviors committed against the right of marine wealth, which is the desired goal of setting penalties commensurate with the behavior committed. The fish, the control of overfishing and the actions that cause the marine environment to be destroyed Coral reefs, in order to balance the marine ecosystem and enhance biological diversity.
The committee agreed on the principles and foundations on which the draft law and the lofty goals to be achieved, and ended with the approval of the draft law offered in agreement with the House of Representatives’ decision.
On the other hand, the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Agriculture expressed its agreement with the desired goals and goals of the draft law, noting the importance of the draft law stipulated in the intensification of the penalties that dealt with them, so that deterrence is achieved through it.
