- Agri-Food
Fisheries Sector Legal Update - the Marine Products Proper Distribution Act
In the field of fisheries, it is commonly understood that （i） illegal catches adversely affect the sustainable utilization of fishery resources and put pressure on fishery operators, necessitating measures to prevent the distribution of illegally caught fish, including their exportation, and to ensure proper domestic distribution, and that （ii） international cooperation is necessary for the elimination of Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated （“IUU”） fishery operations, especially with concern to highly vulnerable species. Accordingly, Japan must take measures to prevent the inflow of IUU catches from within its waters and abroad. Against this background, the Act on Ensuring the Proper Domestic Distribution and Importation of Specified Aquatic Animals and Plants, etc., （hereinafter referred to as…To read the article, please see the PDF file
- It is also available in PDF.
-
Agri Food Newsletter
Download PDF [324 KB]
Authors
Related Knowledge
-
-
Agricultural Management Legal Seminar
Hokkaido
External Seminars
-
-
Jumpei Nagaoka delivers presentation on deforestation regulation
Online, Brussels
External Seminars
-
-
Latest Legislation Series: Learning from Cabinet Legislation Bureau Documents "New Freelancer Protection Act (Law Concerning Appropriation of Transactions with Specified Consigned Business Operators)"
Online
External Seminars
-
-
WTO Fisheries Subsidies Agreement: One Step Closer
Competition Law / International Trade
-
-
Guidelines for the Protection of Prime Fisheries Stocks in the Fisheries Sector
Books
-
-
Guidelines for the Protection of Trade Secrets in the Aquaculture Industry
Books
Yasunari Sugiyama is a partner in the firm's Asset Finance Group and Agri-Food Practice Group. In the finance area, his major and unique areas include financing of movables (lease, installment purchase and secured loan), supports for overseas expansion by financial institutions, acquisition finance and domestic and cross-border real estate transactions. In particular, he has extensive experience in proposing and implementing business plans and schemes available for each target jurisdiction taking into consideration the specific civil and commercial laws and financial regulations regarding the movables and real estates in Asian, European and North and South American countries and their entity-based and geographical applicability and coverage in terms of the overseas expansion of Japanese financial institutions. Further, in the agri-food area, he aims to provide legal services for the purposes of the introduction of smart agriculture, business expansion and diversification of financing sources, development and scaling of new business such as solar-sharing and onland aquaculture business, in each case while organizing the various laws and regulations applicable to each process of value chains of the agricultural, forestry and fishery business.