27 Amendments of Michael GAHLER related to 2011/0391(COD)
Amendment 55 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 13
Recital 13
Amendment 59 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 14
Recital 14
(14) The flight plans and the slots should be better matched to better exploit airport capacity and improve flight punctuality. The flight plans can be rejected in a "no slot" situation.
Amendment 79 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 24
Recital 24
(24) To allow air carriers to adapt to imperative situations of urgency, such as a marked decline in traffic or an economic crisis that severely affects the activity of air carriers, affecting a larger part of the scheduling period, the Commission should be allowed to adopt urgent measures to ensure the consistency of measures to be taken at coordinated airports. These measures will allow air carriers to retain priority for thein allocation ofng the same series for the following scheduling period even if the 850% rate has not been met.
Amendment 81 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 25
Recital 25
Amendment 117 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 5
Article 3 – paragraph 5
Amendment 120 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 7
Article 3 – paragraph 7
Amendment 121 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 7 – subparagraph 1
Article 3 – paragraph 7 – subparagraph 1
Amendment 122 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 7 – subparagraph 2
Article 3 – paragraph 7 – subparagraph 2
Amendment 129 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
At a coordinated or schedules facilitated airport, the Member State responsible shall ensure the determination of the coordination parameters twice yearly, while taking account of all relevant technical, operational , performance and environmental constraints as well as any changes thereto. These constraints shall be notified to the Commission. The Commission, if necessary with the aid of the network manager, shall examine the constraints and deliver recommendations which the Member State must take into account before determining the coordination parameters.
Amendment 157 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Air carriers operating or intending to operate at a schedules facilitated or coordinated airport belonging to the network shall submit to the schedules facilitator or coordinator all relevant information requested by them. If this information changes, the air carriers shall inform the schedules facilitator and the coordinator as soon as possible. All relevant information shall be provided in the format and within the time-limit specified by the schedules facilitator or coordinator. In particular, an air carrier shall inform the coordinator, at the time of the request for allocation, whether it would benefit from the status of new entrant, in accordance with Article 2(2), in respect of requested slots.
Amendment 160 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 a (new)
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 a (new)
The format and scope of the information referred to in this article is determined in an agreed worldwide industry standard. The information provided shall be used for the purpose of this Regulation only.
Amendment 161 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
For all other airports with no particular designation status, the air carriers operating or intending to operate from that airport, the managing body of the airport , the groundhandling service providers and the air navigation service providers the managing body of the airport shall provide, when requested by a coordinator, any information in their possession about the planned services of air carriers.
Amendment 167 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
At a coordinated airport, the Member State responsible shall ensure that a coordination committee is set up. The same coordination committee may be designated for more than one airport. Membership of this committee shall be open at least to the air carriers using the airport(s) in question regularly and their representative organisations, the managing body of the airport concerned, the relevant air traffic control authorities, the representatives of general aviation using the airport regularly , the network manager, the performance review body and the national supervisory authority of the Member State concerned.
Amendment 170 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2 – point a – point iv
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2 – point a – point iv
(iv) local guidelines related to the supervision of the use of slots allocated or the determination of capacity as provided for in Article 9(8);
Amendment 172 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2 – point b
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2 – point b
Amendment 177 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 2
Article 8 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 2
Amendment 196 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 8
Article 9 – paragraph 8
8. The coordinator shall also take into account additional guidelines established by the air transport industry Union -wide or world-wide as well as local guidelines proposed by the coordination committee and approved by the Member State or any other competent body responsible for the airport in question, provided that such guidelines do not affect the independent status of the coordinator, comply with Union law, aim at improving the efficient use of airport capacity and have been notified in advance to and pre-approved by the Commission . The local guidelines may only concern the monitoring of the use of slots allocated or the amendment of the definition of a series of slots to reduce its length below 10 slots for the winter scheduling period or below 15 slots for the summer scheduling period, but under no circumstances below 5 slots. The reduction of the length of the series of slots applies only at airports where demand for air services is highly seasonabledetermination of capacity.
Amendment 213 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 2 – point b
Article 10 – paragraph 2 – point b
(b) that air carrier can demonstrate to the satisfaction of the coordinator that the series of slots in question has been operated, as cleared by the coordinator, by that air carrier for at least 850 % of the time during the scheduling period for which it has been allocated.
Amendment 217 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1
Article 10 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1
Slots allocated to an air carrier before 31 January on or before the following summer season, or before 31 August for the following winter seasonagreed Industry Historics Baseline Date, but which are returned to the coordinator for reallocation before those dates, shall not be taken into account for the purposes of the usage calculation, provided that the remaining allocated slots constitutean be recognised as being part of a series within the meaning of Article 2(13).
Amendment 220 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 2
Article 10 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 2
Amendment 228 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 1 – introductory part
Article 10 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 1 – introductory part
If the 850 % usage of the series of slots cannot be demonstrated, the priorityhistorical precedence provided under paragraph (2) shall not be given , unless the non- utilisation can be justified on the basis of any of the following reasons:
Amendment 230 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 1 – point a – point iii
Article 10 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 1 – point a – point iii
(iii) serious disturbance of operations at the airports concerned, including those series of slots at other Union airports related to routes which have been affected by such disturbance, during a substantial part of the relevant scheduling period;
Amendment 232 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 1 – point c
Article 10 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 1 – point c
(c) serious financial difficulties of the Uniofor an air carrier concerned, resulting in the granting of a temporary licence by the licensing authorities pending financial reorganisation of the air carrier in accordance with Article 9(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1008/2008;
Amendment 236 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 7
Article 10 – paragraph 7
7. If the conditions set out in paragraph (2)(a) and (b) are not met, the Commission may however decide that priority for the allocation of the same series should be awarded to the air carriers for the following scheduling period, if this is justified on imperative grounds of urgency linked to exceptional eventsoperational disruption requiring coherence in the application of measures to be taken in these airports. The Commission shall adopt the necessary measures, the application of which shall not exceed the length of one scheduling period. It shall adopt these immediately applicable implementing acts in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 16(3).
Amendment 240 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 11
Article 11
Amendment 299 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 18 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1
Article 18 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1
Without prejudice to Article 10(5), if the 850 % usage rate as defined in Article 10(2) cannot be achieved by an air carrier, the coordinator may decide to withdraw from that air carrier the series of slots in question for the remainder of the scheduling period and place them in the pool after having consulted the air carrier concerned.
Amendment 302 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 18 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 2
Article 18 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 2
Without prejudice to Article 10(5), if after an allotted time corresponding to 1520 % of the period of the series validity no slots of that series of slots have been used, the coordinator shall place the series of slots in question in the pool for the remainder of the scheduling period, after having consulted the air carrier concerned. The coordinator may decide to withdraw the series of slots before the end of a period corresponding to 1520 % of the period of validity of the series if the carrier does not show that it intends to use them.