Cap de Llebeig

• 30 Dec 2025RulesOngoingApplies to Spain

  Real Decreto 1188/2025, de 26 de diciembre, por el que se modifican determinadas normas en materia de Marina Mercante

  BOE (Spanish Official State Gazette) · in Spanish

  Royal Decree 1188/2025, published on 30 December 2025 and in force from 31 December 2025, requires a one-to-one instructor ratio for introductory dives. It keeps the ban on decompression stops in recreational diving, with an exception for emergencies of up to 10 minutes in total; Canary Islands dive schools and their federation have criticised the ratio.

  Also reported by La Voz de Lanzarote

• 21 Aug 2026ConservationApplies to Spain

  Spain proposes 23 new marine protected areas in the Canary Islands and Mediterranean

  Mongabay

  In July 2026 Spain's Ministry for the Ecological Transition proposed 23 new marine protected areas, 21 Natura 2000 sites and 2 seabird areas, mostly in Canary Islands waters plus four Mediterranean sites off Valencia, Almeria, Granada and Mallorca. Public consultation ran until 15 September 2026; if adopted after European Commission approval, protected Spanish marine waters would rise from 22.5 to 24.53 percent.

• 30 Dec 2023ConservationApplies to Spain

  Spain Designates Seven New Marine Protected Areas

  Oceana Europe

  In December 2023 the Spanish government designated seven new marine protected areas across three marine regions, to be added to the EU Natura 2000 network. Oceana said this lifts the protected share of Spain's marine area from 12 to 21 percent, and that it would keep campaigning against destructive fishing inside the new areas.

Summaries are ours, written from the linked reports.