Balearic Nautical Clubs ask for legal changes to ensure their social and sporting work

The Balearic Nautical Clubs Association (ACNB) has asked the Parliament a modification of the Ports’s Law to include extensions in portuary concessions, with the aim of adding juridical stability and ensuring the continuity of their social and sporting work.

ACNB’S Assembly, which has been reunited at the Club Marítimo de Mahón, has pointed out that this petition answers an urgent need before the growing pressure on the portuary system and the lack of mechanisms of the current law, modified in 2014, has detailed the entity in a note.

ACNB’s president, Toni Estades, has affirmed that the “extensions are gathered in the statewide normative and the portuary laws of other coastal regions”, so its inclusion of the Balearic law would not mean an exception, but a type approval.

The association has carried out encounters with the main parliamentary groups and hopes finishing the contacts round soon to get the most possible consensus.

“We ask for equality with the rest of the country”, added the manager and juridical advisor of the entity, Rafael Palmer, who has pointed out that other communities are suggesting extensions up to 50 years for the concessions.

The Assembly has also asked the Balearic Portuary Authority (APB) to introduce clauses that encourage the sporting activity in the public contest’s contract specifications which affect nautical clubs, as well as following the compliance of acquired mechanisms.

The organization has reported the case of Club Náutico de Ibiza (CNI), whose substitute in the facilities has not fulfilled the regattas calendar to which it was compromised, with no consequences by APB’s behalf, that has extended the temporary authorization.

Estades has also referred to the uncertainty that affects historical entities such as Club de Vela Port d’Andratx or Real Club Náutico de Palma.

In this context, ACNB, which is formed by 24 entities, has supported APB’s president’s declarations, Javier Sanz, during the last Social Nautical Forum, in which he defended that nautical clubs can automatically access extensions in exchange for significant investments.

“I wish this was also the Government’s States’s Ports’s stand”, has said Estades.