Inadmissibility of applications submitted by operators in the aquaculture sector who have committed or are held liable for environmental offences
Article 5
1. If a competent authority has determined in a decision that an operator has committed or is held liable for one of the offences set out in Article 3 and Article 4 of Directive 2008/99/EC ( 6 ) of the European Parliament and of the Council, applications for support from the EMFAF made by that operator pursuant to Article 27 of Regulation (EU) 2021/1139 shall be inadmissible pursuant to Annex III. 2. The starting date of the inadmissibility period shall be the date of the decision by a competent authority determining that an offence set out in Article 3 or Article 4 of Directive 2008/99/EC was committed. 3. For the purposes of triggering inadmissibility and calculating the duration of the inadmissibility period, only offences committed as from 1 January 2013 and for which a decision was adopted within the meaning of paragraph 1 shall be taken into account.