The Italian tourist port has no rules specifically dedicated to the specific issues, nor has it ever been dealt with in the national legal system. This is a of the main issues that emerged during the States-General of the Italian Tourist Ports organized by ASSONAT in collaboration with Assonautica Italiana which took place today in Rome at the Sala Longhi of Unioncamere. The event, aimed at deepen the process of defining a strategic plan of the Italian Tourist Port 2025-2027 launched in 2023 with The goal of completing it by the end of this year has been programmed to give voice and recognisability to a sector strategic for the Italian economy.

"The system of Italian marinas - said the President of Assonat-Confcommercio, Luciano Serra, in his intervention - needs to gather around a a plan that charts the direction to compete in national markets and and thus respond to the many challenges that are now engaged, starting from the new frontiers of the networking, the energy and digital transition, and the tax system. Essential prerequisite, mentioned for the first time in Italy right in the Sea Plan - Serra pointed out - it is the need to give the right emphasis to specificity of the tourist port as an economic sector capable of support the economic, social, cultural and tourism development of the our country and to attract important national and International. Fragmentation and lack of organicity legislative interventions that have taken place over time and, Above all, the failure to take into account the strategic importance of the of the structures dedicated to pleasure boating, now make A unitary and specific regulatory intervention is indispensable'.

It has been pointed out, in fact, that to date there is a lack of a Specific legislation of reference for the port not even contained in the recent Italian Tourism Code, pleasure boating issued by Legislative Decree No 171/2005 nor Law 84/94 which does not contain any provisions referring to specifically to marinas, the latter being a rule addressed to commercial ports. In addition, there is a lack of a notion of what a port is (with the implications of the legal and practical aspects arising from it). Marinas - it's has been observed - have never been treated as a whole. in the Italian legal system and, with particular reference to the port of tourism, tourism, regional is confronted with the subject matter of ports attributed to the to the concurrent legislative power between the State and the Regions, which has contributed in no small way to making the regulatory framework extremely fragmentary.

During the meeting, the need for of a reform of the tourist port that responds to the the evolution that the sector has experienced from the 60s to today and that accompanies companies towards a redevelopment of the structures and in the inevitable energy and digital transition.