{"id":11806,"date":"2023-01-16T13:45:08","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T13:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aac-europe.org\/?page_id=11806"},"modified":"2026-03-25T14:31:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T14:31:10","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/aac-europe.org\/en\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Advisory Councils are bodies of EU interest, created by the Common Fisheries Policy Regulation (EU) No 1380\/2013.<\/p>\r\n\r\n


As the\u00a0Aquaculture Advisory Council (AAC)<\/strong>, we provide advice to the\u00a0European Commission\u00a0and\u00a0Member States\u00a0on any new legislative, regulatory or legal measure at European or national level that affects aquaculture.<\/p>\r\n\r\n


Our Recommendations include the opinions of\u00a0stakeholders in EU aquaculture<\/strong>\u00a0represented with the following repartition:
60%<\/strong> – Sector organisations (Aquaculture producers, Feed, Veterinarians, Trade Unions\u2026)
40%<\/strong> – Other Interest Group (Environment, Consumers, Animal Welfare organisations \u2026)<\/p>\r\n\r\n


Our General Assembly and Executive Committee are guided by the advice generated by our\u00a0three working groups\u00a0on Finfish<\/span>, Shellfish<\/span> and Horizontal issues<\/span>.<\/p>\r\n

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Internal AAC Rules<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\r\n

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Statutes of the aquaculture advisory council<\/p>\r\n

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Rules of procedure of the aquaculture advisory council<\/p>\r\n

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Rules of reimbursement for travel and subsistence<\/p>\r\n

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All policies
of
the AAC<\/p>\r\n

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EU regulation regulating the functionning of the AAC<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\r\n

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EU Regulation on the Common Fisheries Policy (creating the AAC)<\/p>\r\n

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Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2015\/242 of 9 October 2014<\/p>\r\n

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Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022\/204 of 8 December 2021<\/p>\r\n

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Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2015\/242 of 9 October 2014<\/p>\r\n

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Others<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\r\n

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AAC 2025-2026 Strategic Plan<\/p>\r\n

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Aquaculture Advisory Council Leaflet<\/p>\r\n

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Results of the independent evaluation of the AAC (2023)<\/p>\r\n

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[vc_row equal_height=”yes”][vc_column width=”1\/2″ css=”.vc_custom_1678270747966{margin-top: 10px !important;margin-right: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Advisory Councils are bodies of EU interest, created by the Common Fisheries Policy Regulation (EU) No 1380\/2013. As the\u00a0Aquaculture Advisory Council (AAC), […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aac-europe.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11806"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aac-europe.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aac-europe.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aac-europe.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aac-europe.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11806"}],"version-history":[{"count":67,"href":"https:\/\/aac-europe.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15923,"href":"https:\/\/aac-europe.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11806\/revisions\/15923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aac-europe.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}