Secretary of State for Sport, José Ramón Lete, along with representatives of the nautical clubs.

The president of the High Council of Sports, José Ramón Lete, recognized the work of the nautical in his meeting with CEACNA. Both sides committed themselves to advancing the 2020 Plan to support basic sport. The club patron also had a fruitful meeting with the general director of the Merchant Navy.

"We consider strategic sports nautical activity as it transcends the field of sport to other productive sectors such as tourism." The president of the High Council of Sports (CSD), José Ramón Lete Lasa, made these statements on Wednesday, January 11, during a meeting with the president of the Spanish Confederation of Nautical Clubs Associations (CEACNA), José Jaubert, and other members of this employer, who were "very grateful and satisfied" for the recognition of the highest organ of national sport to the work of the nautical and marine groups.

The meeting, also attended by the Director General for Sport of the CSD, Jaime González Castaño, served to design the plans for collaboration between this public body and CEACNA, one of the main objectives of which is to ensure that clubs retain their administrative concessions, both in State ports under the Ministry of Development and in the autonomous ones under the control of regional governments.

José Ramón Lete showed his willingness to mediate with other State institutions in defence of the nautical clubs, which he considered as "the basis for the development of the nautical sport in Spain." The CSD does not escape that the candle is the discipline that has brought the most medals to Spanish sport throughout history and that these achievements would not have been possible in the absence of the clubs.

The clubs, for their part, committed themselves to working together in the development of the CSD 2020 Plan, which provides tax incentives of up to 90% for companies supporting basic sport activities. This cooperation could be achieved in the near future with the presentation of a joint project of the nautical clubs integrated in CEACNA, which represents 180 non-profit sports entities, which employs 2,400 employees and consists of more than 200,000 partners and users.

However, the clubs stressed the need to create a legal framework that would encourage greater involvement of private initiative in the sponsorship of sports, whether nautical or otherwise. In this regard, Jaubert recalled that CEACNA "has for years been demanding a law of sports patronage."

Lete accepted Jaubert's offer to be present at the III National Nautical Clubs Symposium organized by CEACNA, which will take place in Alicante from 5 to 6 October this year.

Prior to this meeting, the delegation of CEACNA was received by the general director of the Merchant Marina, Rafael Rodríguez Valero, who stressed his idea, presented at the II Symposium of Nautical Clubs in 2015, to enhance an exclusive department for recreational nautical. The meeting was also attended by a representative of the National Association of Nautical Enterprises (ANEN) and addressed specific issues such as the problems of fondation in places such as Tenca, the flag of boats, the qualifications of club sailors, as well as the future of sports nautical education and the regulation of sailing schools.

CEACNA has proposed in 2017 to become part of the board of directors of the main nautical sports federations of Spain, to participate in the collective labour, tourism and sectoral bargaining tables, and to make its symposium the most important in the sector.