Lorenzo Sanna, CEO of Monti & Barabino, was elected as the new president of ANPAN, the National Association of Naval Superintendents and Contractors, and succeeds Vittorio Parmigiani, of Marine Consultant and Services, who remained in office for over four years. He decided it the private assembly of the association, which met this afternoon in private form at the Grand Hotel dei Castelli in Sestri Levante, in the province of Genoa.

During the morning the public assembly was held, opened by the report of Parmigiani himself, during the which the association has asked European, national and local to guide the maritime sector with common sense and pragmatism, avoiding a flood of rules that do nothing but weigh down the sector and undermine its competitiveness. "The international context - said Parmigiani - is already quite challenging for a business like ours, which is played on a global chessboard. In this context, it really makes no sense to go to build a castle of rules, regulations, snares and snares that engulf the entire system. I am referring, for example, to a regime such as ETS (the EU Emissions Trading System) which from 2024 is also applied to the maritime sector, ed.), which jeopardizes the stability of Italian shipping, but also, and coming to a theme that we feel even more "ours", to the High Seas Protocol". Parmigiani's reference is VAT tax compliance under which supplies to ships sailing on the high seas are not taxable for VAT purposes. "We are talking about a unique European level, which carries a truly unsustainable and therefore leads to a loss of competitiveness for our companies. Our request is practical and oriented to common sense, or return to the "old" paper declaration of the master or owner, at least for as regards the ships that for convenience I define "international". We ask politics for a revision that brings the procedure back to a simple, proportionate and consistent with what happens in other European countries".

Speaking of the New Customs Code of the European Union, with the on Regulation (EU) 2026/2018 published in the Official Journal On 19 September, Parmigiani noted that, at the moment, there are no elements of great concern for naval contractors compared to the past. "As always, however, - he specified - There is an exception, which in this case is represented by Annex B drawn up by DG TAXUD, or rather by a possible revision of it. These are the "instructions" that directly involve our sector, the discipline application for ship chandlering. Today three codes are legitimate aggregates for export and re-export declarations, but As this annex is a guidance document, it must be expressly confirmed and incorporated into the new regulatory framework. To this we ask DG TAXUD to confirm and maintain in force Annex B and the use of these aggregated codes, because The alternative is that an analytical statement is requested which would lead to serious problems especially for supplies last minute. Such a stiffening - underlined the president outgoing ANPAN - would risk imposing on companies a significant administrative burden, in particular in the last-minute supplies, without this being matched by a benefit proportionate operation".

In his report, Parmigiani also touched on the issue of imposed in Genoa, which defined a "deed of that risks slowing down the growth of the sector", of regulatory simplification ("Well - he commented - the latest developments, we do not stop this work undertaken also by the CIPOM") and the waits in the terminals, "which - reported - are often excessively prolonged, leading to an increase in of costs and time for our companies".