Defra launches booklet to help companies dealing with marine licensing changes
The booklet - "Managing our marine resources - licensing under the Marine Bill" explains the changes that they are proposing to make to the marine licensing and enforcement systems through the Marine Bill and how these will work in practice.
These changes will:-
- provide a clear proportionate regulatory system to protect the marine environment and allow low risk activities to take place where appropriate;
- streamline the decision-making process, allowing more strategic and sustainable choices to be made about what we want in our seas;
- enable a more flexible and proportionate approach to be taken when dealing with licensing offences.
An electronic (pdf) version of the booklet is available on our website http://www.marinesoutheast.co.uk/docs/tech/ alternatively go to the Defra website http://www.defra.gov.uk/marine/index.htm
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