New streamlining of recruitment procedures and start of the revision of the regulations for on-board health services. These are some of the mini reforms for the maritime sector contained in the simplifications decree law approved yesterday by the Chamber of Deputies.
The text includes, among other things, the amendment of Article 328 and the repeal of Article 329 of the Navigation Code, through which the simplified recruitment procedures in Italy introduced during the pandemic period have effectively been made structural. The text also delegates to a Presidential Decree (DPR) of the Ministry of Health the task of reorganizing the regulations for the health service on board merchant ships.
The Fondo Nazionale Marittimi expresses satisfaction with the approval of the decree law. “We worked alongside the shipowners’ associations to promote proposals and amendments, especially thanks to the constant sensitivity of Hon. Maria Grazia Frijia but also of many other majority and opposition parliamentarians, as well as the administration’s willingness to finally begin accompanying this process of modernizing the Italian flag,” declared the president Angelo D’Amato.
“The activation of the National Digital Registry of Seafarers (Anagrafe Nazionale Digitale della Gente di Mare) is also taking shape, which also includes the digitalization of the seafarers’ Navigation Booklet: a long-awaited step forward, fundamental in the path of technological innovation for the maritime world,” confirms the Procurator of the Fondo Nazionale Marittimi, Alessandro Ferrari, who underlines how the Fund started a dialogue with the General Directorate of the MIT led by Patrizia Scarchilli in April, building a project together with Assarmatori and Confitarma, presented to the MIT in the month of July.
“The acceleration to realize this project,” continues Ferrari, “is mainly thanks to the President of the Chamber of Deputies’ Transport Commission, Hon. Deidda, who understood and accepted the request for modernization, also shared during the Conference on maritime work held in Procida, on the initiative of Fabio Pagano (President of the Maritime Work Committee) at the end of June: Hon. Deidda effectively activated the collaboration between the MIT and the Department for Digital Transformation. This initiative truly represents a turning point to simplify, digitalize and make the maritime sector more efficient, and the Fondo Nazionale Marittimi confirms its availability to be the operational arm of the MIT.”
Yesterday, during the Interministerial Committee for the Digital Transition chaired by the Undersecretary of State to the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, Sen. Alessio Butti, the Undersecretary of State Tullio Ferrante highlighted how the unique AnGeMar platform, interoperable and accessible via digital identity, will allow for the simplified management of data relating to professional qualifications, embarkations, certifications, and careers of maritime personnel, and the dematerialization of the navigation booklet, also in a digital IT-Wallet version, reducing paper obligations and guaranteeing the immediate availability of professional information, in line with the Pnrr objectives.
Assiterminal will discuss these new developments and the importance of training as a tool to increasingly attract young people to maritime professions next December 3rd, from 11 am to 3 pm, during the event organized by the Fondo Nazionale Marittimi in Rome, with the participation of the main ITS and Training Centers. The event can be followed at the link and at 2 pm an institutional round table will take place.
