The President of the Federation, Josep María Isern Sala, has stressed that the sea is a common good and that ports have guaranteed a tangible return to citizenship. "We must make clubs have a real social return to the population, and that return is sport. This is the most direct and effective way to transform an infrastructure into public service," he said.

The president of the Catalan Federation of Vela, Josep Maria Isern and Sala, has appeared before the Commission of Sports of the Parlament of Catalonia, with the participation of the deputy to the Committee of the Territory, to present the current situation of the sea sports and to defend a structural reform that will guarantee its future in the Catalan ports.

The session has demonstrated a broad consensus among political formations on the need to protect the federated sport on the coast and to strengthen the social role of ports. A high level of cooperation with the Generalitat de Catalunya has also been shown to advance the defence of sea sports. Catalonia, a country of sea and social return In its intervention, Isern recalled that Catalonia has 580 kilometres of coast and a consolidated structure of integrated sea sports more than 16 federations and tens of thousands of athletes. This 2025 alone, the Catalan Vela Federation has grouped 53,700 federations, generated more than 800 annual competitions and involved 582 professionals, as well as a strong educational and inclusive impact with school sailing, adapted and integration programs.

In tune with colleagues from other autonomous federations, case of federations of other communes, case of Galicia, Euski or Andalucía, the Catalan president was very clear that "It is not understood that you can play basketball without a pavilion or football without a field in conditions. Similarly, you cannot practice sailing or any sea sport without the appropriate facilities."

The parliamentary groups of the Parlament... have agreed on the need to move towards a regulatory framework that protects sea sport as a structural element of the Catalan coast. The appearance has demonstrated a cross-cutting will to ensure that ports remain open, accessible and at the service of all citizens. In this context, it has also been noted that ways are being explored to strengthen the institutional recognition of nautical clubs as strategic sports equipment in the country's sports planning.