The General States of the seaside resorts of Sardinia were held at the Palacongressi of the Cagliari Fair, an opportunity to take stock of the future of the sector, almost a month after the sentence of the Council of State of 9 November, which ordered the extension of the current concessions up to a maximum of 31 December 2023 and therefore the call for tenders starting from 1 January 2024.

Organizers of the appointment Sib Confcommercio, Fiba and Federbalneari, with the participation of Assonautica.

At the end of the meeting, the proposal for a law was launched for the reorganization of state-owned concessions for tourist-recreational purposes, which is able to offer companies in the sector guarantees and certainties also for the future, with the request for an immediate convocation. of the Productive Activities Commission of the Regional Council.

"In Sardinia 95% of the activities on the state property are family-run, families that must be protected", explained Claudio Maurelli, president of Federbalneari Sardegna in his speech, "the concessions registered today on the island are 1200, whose average size is 600 square meters (more than 50% are concessions of 200 square meters, the remaining concessions vary between 500 and 2000 square meters) while only 2% is made up of appurtenant concessions. It is therefore evident the damage that the sentence of the Council of State has caused not only to the seaside tourism sector, but to the entire regional economy ".

The event also saw the participation in connection of Matteo Salvini and Giorgia Meloni, who supported the cause of the operators and strongly criticized the sentence.

"Surely the only thing that Italy cannot afford to do is sell off its beaches and its sea and the sacrifice of thousands of entrepreneurs: the sentence of the Council of State cries out for vengeance to the world and I am not resigned, I am not I adapt and I do not give up ", said the secretary of the League," also yesterday we thought about how to move and this morning I heard the undersecretary Centinaio and there is the possibility to intervene and we will go through all the possibilities legally pursued by 2023 and even before ".