Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 6 February 2018
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Aquaculture Licensing Process: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
3:30 pm
Dr. Cecil Beamish:
The birds and habitats directives are what they are. The obligations should be the same for all member states. It is the European Commission that decides on the enforcement actions and whether the way a particular member state is dealing with them is satisfactory. That is standard to any European law.