The Italian government has launched a National Sea Plan, approved last July by the Interministerial Committee for Sea Policies, which is valid for three years. The Plan includes maritime spatial plans, which - specifies the Sea Plan - "find their legal basis in the EU Directive no. 89 of 23 July 2014, which was later transposed into our Legal system with Legislative Decree no. 201 of 17 October 2016' and 'have The main purpose is to 'promote the sustainable growth of maritime economies, development sustainable use of marine areas and the sustainable use of resources ensuring the protection of the marine and coastal environment through the application of the ecosystem approach, taking into account the land-sea interactions and enhanced cooperation cross-border law, in accordance with the relevant provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS)'".

A transposition of the Community directive into legal law which, however, has not been carried out correctly in the opinion of the European Commission, which announced Italy's referral to the Court of Justice of the EU for the failure to draw up and communicate its management plans maritime space. Recalling that the Directive required the Coastal Member States to draw up spatial management plans no later than 31 March 2021 and to notify the Commission and the other Member States concerned within three months Since their publication, the European Commission has explained that Italy, however, has not yet elaborated or submitted the Commission its maritime spatial plans, and whereas, therefore, following the submission of a letter of incorporation in late payment in December 2021 and a reasoned opinion in April 2023, It was decided to refer him to the Court of Justice.