Local authorities: They will be able to manage coastal areas and recreational nautical facilities.
The government will allow municipalities to make the management of coastal areas and recreational nautical facilities, said, Figueira da Foz, Minister of the Sea.
“If municipalities want to manage the facilities [nautical recreation], They will be able to do it”, said the Minister of the Sea, Ana Paula Vitorino, stressing that the Government has also proposed to the authorities that the management of riparian areas to be transferred to its sphere.
For the Minister of the Sea, it is essential that there is no “Unilateral decisions by the Government, but in partnership with the Municipal Councils”, claiming that the protection is “transferred or shared” with local authorities riverine.
A 26 October, Ana Paula Vitorino announced its intention to grant concessions to the private sector marinas, and it has already received “several expressions of interest” by authorities who want “be themselves manage the recreational nautical facilities”.
The minister said “or generalized model” for the privatization of marinas will undergo “launching concessions for the management or, possibly, to make investment in marinas or other water facilities”.
The private the concession period may be different in each marina, perspetivando that same period is less than ten years and less than 20 year old.
The concession period is also linked to the need for investment that each marina needs, setting the same “due to the need of amortization of investments”, clarified.
The Sea minister was speaking to journalists on the sidelines of the formal session of the celebrations of 50 years of the inauguration of the jetties of the port of Figueira da Foz, which took place yesterday afternoon.
