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19 Amendments of Dominique RIQUET related to 2011/0391(COD)

Amendment 46 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 4
(4) The slot-allocation system established in 1993 does not ensure the optimum allocation and use of slots and thus of airport capacity. In the context of growing airport congestion and the limited development of major new airport infrastructure, the slots are a rare resource. Access to such resources is of crucial importance for the provision of air transport services and for the maintenance of effective competition. To this end, the allocation and use of slots could be made more effective by introducing marketslot exchange mechanisms, by ensuring that the unused slots are made available to interested operators as soon as possible and in a transparent manner, and by reinforcing the underlying principles of the system with regard to the allocation, management and use of the slots. At the same time, although the historical slots meet the need for stability in schedules for the airlines, during the future assessment of the application of this Regulation, a gradual introduction of other market mechanisms could be envisaged, such as withdrawing and auctioning historical slots.
2012/09/17
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 50 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 8
(8) Experience has shown that secondary trading, that is the exchange of slots for financial or other compensation, does not benefit from a uniform and consistent legislative framework, including guarantees of transparency and competitive safeguards. It is therefore necessary to regulate the exchange of slots and prohibit secondary trading in slots in the European Union.
2012/09/17
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 68 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 23
(23) Since the environmental aspects may be taken into account in the coordination parameters and regional connectivity can also be fully ensured in the context of the public service obligations, experience has not shown that local rules are useful. Furthermore, it cannot be excluded that such rules do not lead to discrimination in allocating slots. Consequently, the option of resorting to local rules should be restricted. All the technical, operational, performance and environmental constraints that should be applied by the coordinators or the facilitators should be defined in the coordination parameters. The resort to local rules would also be reduced to supervising the use of slots and the possibility of reducing the length of the series of slots in the cases provided for by this Regulation. With a view to promoting better use of airport capacity, two basic principles in slot allocation should be reinforced, namely the definition of the series of slots and the calculation of historical slots. At the same time, the flexibility given to air carriers should be better regulated with a view to preventing distortions during the application of this Regulation in the Member States. Therefore, better use of airport capacity should be encouraged.deleted
2012/09/17
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 77 #
Proposal for a regulation
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 lager 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 in allocating the same series for the following scheduling period even if the 8580% rate has not been met.
2012/09/17
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 84 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 26
(26) Experience shows that a significant number of slots are returned to the pool too late to be reallocated effectively. The airport managing body should be encouraged to use the airport charge systemPenalty mechanisms should be introduced to discourage this type of behaviour. Despite having recourse to thisese mechanisms, the airport managing body should not, however, discourage air carriers from entering the market or developing services.
2012/09/17
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 100 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 13
13) 'series of slots' shall mean at least 15 slots for a summer scheduling period and 10 slots for a winter scheduling period requested for the same time on the same day of the week for consecutive weeks and allocated by the coordinator on that basis or, if that is not possible, allocated at approximately the same time;
2012/09/17
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 145 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1
1. At the end of each scheduling period, the coordinator or schedules facilitator shall submit to the Member States concerned and, to the Commission an activityd to all stakeholders an activity report and financial report describing the general slot allocation and/or schedules facilitation situation, examining , , in particular, the application of Article 9(5) and Articles 13 and 18, as well as any complaints regarding the application of Articles 9 and 10 submitted to the coordination committee and the steps taken to resolve them. The report shall also contain the results of a survey conducted among the interested parties on the quality of services provided by the coordinator.
2012/09/17
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 150 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 – point d
d) remaining available slots with respect to each type of constraint taken into consideration in the coordination parameters. The database shall allow the air carriers and airports to verify the availability of slots corresponding to their requests ;
2012/09/17
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 193 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 8
8. The coordinator shall also take into account additional guidelines established by the air transport industry worldUnion-wide or Union 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 supervision of the use of slots allocated or the amendment of the definition of the series of slots for reducing 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 in airports where demand for air services is highly seasonablewithin a reasonable timeframe, especially in urgent circumstances.
2012/09/17
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 210 #
Proposal for a regulation
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.
2012/09/17
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 218 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 2
Slots coinciding with public holidays shall be incorporated into the series for the following season without any need to justify their non-use.deleted
2012/09/17
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 225 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 1 – introductory part
If the 850 % usage of the series of slots cannot be demonstrated, the priority provided under paragraph (2) shall not be given , unless the non-utilisation can be justified on the basis of any of the following reasons:
2012/09/17
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 241 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 1
1. The managing body of a coordinated airport may decide to use the airport charge system with the aim of dissuading air carriers from belatedly returning slots to the pool referred to in Article 9 and to hold them liable for having reserved airport infrastructure without using it. The following principles shall be respected: a) the procedure set out under Article 6 of Directive 2009/12/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council shall be observed before this decision is taken. The coordinator shall also be consulted. For coordinated airports not covered by Article 1(2) of Directive 2009/12/EC, the airport managing body shall consult the coordination committee and the coordinator; b) this decision shall not affect the non- discriminatory and transparent character of the slot allocation process and the system of airport charges; c) this decision shall not discourage air carriers from developing services or entering the market and it shall be limited to covering the costs incurred by the airport for reserving the airport capacity corresponding to the slots which remained unused; d) air carriers shall not be held liable for having reserved airport infrastructure without using it for slots allocated but returned to the pool before 31 January for the following summer scheduling period or before 31 August for the following winter scheduling period, for slots coinciding with public holidays and returned to the pool before the same dates and for slots for which the non-use can be justified on the basis of Article 10(5); e) this decision shall be communicated to the coordinator, the interested parties and the Commission at least six months before the start of the scheduling season concerned. 2. The coordinator shall send the airport managing body all the information necessary for the implementation of the decision referred to in the first paragraph.Article 11 deleted Slot reservation
2012/09/17
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 253 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 13 – paragraph 1 – point b
b) transferred between two air carriers, with or without monetary or any other kind of compensation;
2012/09/17
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 255 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 13 – paragraph 1 – point c
c) exchanged, one for one, between air carriers, with or without monetary or any other kind of compensation .
2012/09/17
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 259 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 13 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
The Member Statecoordinator shall establish a transparent framework to allow contact between air carriers interested in transferring or exchanging slots in conformity with Union law.
2012/09/17
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 266 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 13 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 3
For the transfers or exchanges referred to in paragraph 1(b) and (c), the air carriers shall give the coordinator the details of any monetary or any other kind of compensation. The details regarding compensation for the transfers or exchanges are confidential and the coordinator shall only divulge such details to the Member State where the airport is situated or the Commission, upon their request. The transfers or exchanges may not be subject to conditions intended to limit the possibility for the air carrier wishing to obtain the slots fromto entering into competition with the air carrier which transfers or exchanges the slots.
2012/09/17
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 289 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 18 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 – indent 2
- the return of slots after 31 January for the following summer season or after 31 August for the following winter season, or the retention of unused slots; the penalty should in any case take account of the possible use of the mechanism provided by Article 11;
2012/09/17
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 297 #
Proposal for a regulation
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.
2012/09/17
Committee: TRAN