It should be noted that pursuant to and for the purposes of L. R. No. 17/98, coastal municipalities are required to ensure the bathing surveillance service, through the presence of lifeguards along the free beaches, falling within the territory of jurisdiction, deemed suitable for bathing. In compliance with the provisions issued annually by the Maritime Authorities in charge of the territory, moreover, in the free beaches of pertinence, the municipal administrations are obliged to signal the limit of safe waters where non-swimmers can bathe and the limit of the area reserved for bathing (300 meters from the shoreline or 100 meters from the sheer coastline) by means of the affixing of buoys/floating buoys, white in the first case and red in the second. Given the start of the bathing season, therefore, it would seem useful, in the context of mutual institutional relations, to recall that, in the case of impossibility of fulfilling these duties necessary for the safety of bathing, these coastal municipalities must nevertheless give notice to the public by affixing on the free beaches of relevance, appropriate vertical, clearly visible monitoring signs
(drawn up in several languages), equipped with explanatory pictograms and characterized by standard ISO 20712 symbology, according to the model referred to in the European project PERLA (cooperation for accessibility, enjoyment, and safety of the coastal strip), bearing the following indications:
ATTENTION – BATHING
ATTENTION – UNSAFE BEACHING FOR LACK OF APPROPRIATE SAFETY SERVICE UNSAFE BEACHING FOR UNSAFE WATER LIMIT (mt.1.00 depth) UNSIGNALED
ATTENTION – WATER LIMIT INTERDICTED TO NAVIGATION – UNSIGNALED” (meters 300 from the shoreline i.e. meters 100 from the coastline falling sheer to the sea)
Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport
Maritime District Office
Porticello – T.A.O. Section.