With the marine sector, which brings more than 1 billion euros per year, the ballets are leading in the register of recreational boats in Spain, but it also occupies high grades in the national statistics of the accident.
Emergency coordination center of sea salvation in Palma Ended 2024 with 421 salvation Recreational boats, separated to 305, recorded in 2023.
Overflow and illegal rental cause anxiety for the sea sector on the islands, which carefully monitors New rules are processed by the central government and the Balearian government with conflicting approaches. The Government of Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez will allow private individuals who own the boat on legally to lease it for up to three months a year. At the same time, he will exempt them from the obligation to alloy in order to wash to bats in recreational motor boats up to 5 meters long with a maximum capacity of 15 hp. and sailing boats up to 6 meters long. The regional government fears that these changes will lead to a sharp increase in the number of accidents on the Balearian coast, a figure that has been growing steadily in recent years.
Thanks to its new rules, the regional government directly prohibits this type of lease, but the central government issued a warning: “It invades the authority of the state and violates the principle of equality, preventing activities that are legal in the rest of the national territory.”
Tony Merkant, General Director for Marine Transport for the Regional Government, warns that if the head of Sanchez, you decide to take the Balearcas to the Constitutional Court regarding this decision, the regional government will withstand the abolition of public berth from individuals who rent their boats. ‘They COL lose their rights to mooring in favor 7000 people in the waiting list for mooring For their own non-profit use, ”he says.
The number of emergency situations in the sea in the balusters Grew by 81% last yearAnd most 743 marine operations coordinated by the marine rescue center in Palma were associated with recreational boats. A saddler of incidents associated with recreational boats increased by 11% compared to 2023. The Ministry of Transport and Sustainable Mobility through the Director of the Trade Military Fleet is responsible for increasing the safety of navigation in Spain.
At the last National Congress of Marine, held in February last year, the director of marine salvation, Jose Luis Garcia Lena, announces the launch of a new national plan for special services for saving human life in the sea and the fight against pollution of the marine environment. This plan has a budget of 162.7 million euros and includes, among other things, the creation of a new coordination center in Palma.