Anen outlines the strategic lines of his activity for the coming months at the meeting of his Board of Directors attended by the new Director General of the Merchant Navy, Benito Núñez Quintanilla

The ANEN Board of Directors met yesterday in Madrid to address the actions that will mark the activities of the Association in the coming months, with the presence of the Director General of the Merchant Navy, who once again shows the support and importance that the DGMM attaches to our sector.

After discussing the last Nautical Congress, held in Palma on March 8 and 9, and making the forecasts for the seventh edition of the event, to be held in Palma one more year, the legislative projects under way, the processing and entry into force of which are a priority for the sector, were discussed:

- The future Royal Decree on the professional empowerment of certain nautical degrees and the reform of the regulation of water bikes.

- The draft Ministerial Order regulating the safety and pollution prevention equipment for recreational vessels and replacing the current Order Fom 1144 / 2003, which is already in the process of being held in public and for which ANEN has requested an effort to reach the greatest possible consensus in the sector that will involve a revision, modification and improvement of the text.

- The draft Royal Decree determining the safety conditions for professional and sports diving activities in Spanish sea waters.

The members of the ANEN Board of Directors transmitted to the new Director General of the Merchant Navy the urgency of speeding up these regulations. In another section, the institutional activity of the employer was addressed with the new officials of the competent government administrations. The Association is already planning a meeting agenda to present to them the economic impact figures of recreational nautical as well as the needs to support companies to grow as a sector and as an engine of other sectors of our economy. In parallel, ANEN is maintaining contacts with car sector employers, ANFAC, FACONAUTO and ANESDOR, in order to add synergies and jointly propose to the Administration measures to achieve taxation that will enable both sectors to gain competitiveness, productivity and employment.