PP and Vox offer amplifying concession periods of the nautical clubs of the ports of the Balearics

The proposal of law modifies the Ports Law to equalize the maximum period to the national law and introduce social and sporting criteria in public contests.

PP Balears and the Vox Balears parliamentary group have registered today, July 31st, in the Parliament of the Balearic Islands an altogether Law Proposal, consented between both parties, to modify the Law of Ports of the Balearic Islands, with the objective of amplifying the periods of the administrative concessions until the maximum allowed by the national legislation, which give a major legal security and eases the necessary investments in modernization and sustainability. In addition, social and sporting criteria are added in value with the public contests.

The text also expects the simplification of diverse administrative processes –such as the small performances in portuary floor or the withdrawal of abandoned boats– and the adaptation of portuary uses of the statal normative. In addition, a modification of the 11/1998 Law is introduced, over the specific regime Autonomic Community taxes, to establish legal limitations to the canon revisions, favoring a more stable and foreseeable environment for the concessionaires.

The initiative draws from a proposal of the Balearic Nautical Clubs Association, which has carried out meetings with different political parties with representation in the Parliament in the last months. Both vocational training have collected this concern and has transferred the law field, with the aim to adapt the Balearic normative mark to the State’s law and to other autonomic communities that have already advanced in this line.

The nautical clubs of the Balearics –24 in total, with around 12.000 members and over 8.500 moorings– are non-profit entities that develop an intense social and sporting labor, with direct impact on the training of elite athletes, the international regattas organization and the encouragement of  values linked to sea and sustainability, and with deep social roots. The presented law proposal recognizes this contribution with measures that will allow them to keep investing and modernizing their facilities.

On the other hand, the reform does not forget the rest of the nautical field, including the private sporting marines, which will also benefit from concessional improvements when they carry out important investments in energetic efficiency, digitalization, productivity, sustainability or environmental protection. The proposal places the focus on recreational and sporting sailing, and on the strategic role that the nautical clubs and the sporting marines carry out in the economy, in terms of employment generation as well as in social, cultural and environmental activities promotion.

Altogether, this is a proposal decided to consolidate a competitive, modern and balanced portuary model, which combines economic rentability with social and environmental compromise.