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By SeafoodSource staff
11 July, 2012 - Norway’s law limiting single ownership of fish-farming concessions to one-quarter of its total is in breach of European Economic Area (EEA) rules, the authority that monitors the cooperation of non-EU states with the EEA said on Wednesday.

Norway has not been able to prove that ownership ceilings are suitable or necessary, the EFTA Surveillance Authority (ESA) said on Wednesday.

Norwegian law bans purchases that would allow one owner to hold more than 25 percent of the country’s total number of salmon- and trout-farming concessions.

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