Joint Order No.16-02/519 of the Ministry of Agriculture and No. 308 of the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade validating assessment criteria of risks in the sphere of private entrepreneurship related to protection, stock enhancement and management of fishery and other aquatic animals.

This Joint Order establishes assessment criteria of risks in the sphere of private entrepreneurship related to protection, stock enhancement and management of fishery and other aquatic animals. Risk assessment shall be considered the totality of quantitative and qualitative indices related to managers subject to inspection that enable to classify them by risk groups divided in various categories. The scope shall be to exercise state supervision over fishery managers (except for artisanal/sport fishing, experimental fisheries and aquaculture fisheries), zoological collecting and aquaculture management and classify them in accordance with risk groups. Risk criteria shall be classified as objective and subjective ones. Objective risk criteria shall be considered industrial fishery management, scientific research fisheries, aquaculture and zoological collecting. Subjective risks shall be considered various types of offences of the national legislation on fisheries.