The year 2025 has just begun after a year full of steps forward for the Italian yachting world. We are talking about the nautical license, the updating of the necessary equipment and the simplified title for 2nd class officers to, in a nutshell, be able to skipper in good standing. There are still, however, many unresolved issues, but they deserve attention because they affect everyone.
The telematics counter of the yachtsman
The establishment of the central telematics system for recreational boating with its various branches (Atcn, Ucon, Sted) has made an epoch-making leap in the management of nautical paperwork and made life easier for the boater. After some initial difficulties due to the migration of paper data to digital archives and some operational bottlenecks, delays in paperwork management currently seem to have reduced. But if boating bureaucracy has emerged from the stone age, we are far from having landed in the digital world. One only has to look across borders and look at nations like Spain, France, Belgium or Britain to see the gap that separates us from them. In these countries, e-government services, public portals and applications in a mobile key now allow the yachtsman to carry out most of the paperwork (registration, cancellation, property transfers, duplicate navigation license, name change, personal data modification, etc.) independently from the web or via app. Without intermediaries, counters, queues, certificates to be brought or filled in, postal deposits to be shown, certificates to be produced, substitutes for certifications or “Dci” to be requested at great expense from third-party entities. In some countries these acts are free and documents issued digitally in real time. The suffocating bureaucracy that hangs over every boating practice continues to be one of the main causes preventing boating from really spreading. Proposal: The digital transition of public administration is one of the pillars of the Italian “Pnrr” to which 25 percent of the allocated funds are allocated. It is necessary that recreational boating also benefits from it with the creation of a specific portal that allows the yachtsman to carry out the main administrative practices independently, linked to an app that duplicates its functions.
One (very good) example is the one launched a few months ago by the Ministry of Enterprise and Made in Italy (formerly the Ministry of Communications) that allows people to apply for the issuance of the “Rtf license” (the Limited Radiotelephone Operator’s Certificate), or the Radio Operating License directly online.
Themes in upcoming episodes:
- Telematics register
- Marinas and berths
- Marine reserves
- Foreign flag: Italian or foreign?
- Boating license: it’s a fee alarm
- Boating license on app
- European boating license
- Regions: resource for boating
- Vessels abroad
- First Aid Kit
- Social boating
- Boating promotion
- Controls at sea
- Life rafts
