Activites

• 1994/12/12 Final act published in Official Journal
  • Directive 1994/56
  • OJ L 319 12.12.1994, p. 0014
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• 1994/11/21 Council Meeting
• 1994/11/21 End of procedure in Parliament
• 1994/11/21 Act adopted by Council after consultation of Parliament
• 1994/11/17 Modified legislative proposal published
  • COM(1994)0503 summary

    The amended proposal includes Parliament's amendment to the common position. This amendment supplements Article 7, paragraph 2 by making provision for the publication of a mid-term report within twelve months of the accident if the final report on the enquiry cannot be presented by then.�

• 1994/10/26 Decision by Parliament, 2nd reading
  • T4-0054/1994 summary

    The European Parliament amended the Council's common position by adopting an amendment stipulating that if a final accident report cannot be published because information is missing, a provisional report should be published within twelve months of the date of the accident.�

• 1994/10/25 Debate in Parliament
  • Debate in Parliament
• 1994/10/11 Vote in committee, 2nd reading
  • A4-0016/1994
• 1994/09/15 Committee referral announced in Parliament, 2nd reading
• 1994/05/16 Council position published
  • 05605/1/1994 summary

    The common position keeps to the spirit of the Commission proposal and incorporates amendments 1, 5, 6, 7 and 10 adopted by the European Parliament and accepted by the Commission. However, the Council has not incorporated amendments seeking to: - extend the scope of the directive, outside Community territory, to all incidents involving an aircraft registered in a Member State or operated by a company established in a Member State. However, the directive does make provision for this possibility if the investigating authority hopes to learn lessons on air traffic safety; - set a period of 24 hours' hospitalisation for the definition of serious injury; - exclude the possibility of external agencies intervening in enquiries; - ensure that an accident report is published. The common position calls for the accident report to be made public, if possible within twelve months of the date of the accident, the deadline also proposed by the European Parliament.�

• 1994/03/29 Modified legislative proposal published
  • COM(1994)0102 summary

    The Commission adopted 7 of the 11 amendments adopted by Parliament. These sought: - to extend the investigators' freedom of access to include items of luggage; - to require Member States to take the necessary measures to ensure the publication of the accident report; - to state that only information of a purely material nature, which has been obtained during the inquiry or has resulted from it, may be used for the purpose of any other inquiry or action undertaken following the accident or incident in question; - to make it possible for accident reports to be used for disciplinary purposes; - to withdraw the provision which required Member States to take the necessary steps to protect investigators from any involvement in legal proceedings aimed at establishing blame or responsibility for an accident; - to call on the Commission to put forward supplementary measures before 31 December 1995 (introduction of mandatory national and Community systems for reporting incidents, a confidential system for incident reporting and a compensation scheme for victims). �

• 1994/03/09 Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
  • T3-0142/1994 summary

    Parliament approved the proposal for a directive with 11 amendments. The proposed amendments sought: - to establish the closest possible coordination between the technical investigation and the judicial inquiry; - to extend the scope of the directive to cover not only serious accidents but all types of incident; - to include cases involving accidents in which there were casualties requiring a period of hospitalization longer than 24 hours, instead of the 48 hours required by the Directive; - to state that the inquiry should be held, and free assistance provided, without the intervention of external agencies; - to set a maximum time-limit of 12 months, from the date of the accident, for the investigating agency to publish a report; - to require Member States to take the necessary measures to ensure that the said report was published; - to state that only information of a purely material nature, which has been obtained during the inquiry, may be used for the purpose of any other inquiry or action which is undertaken following the accident or incident in question; - to set 30 June 1995 as the final date for the Commission to present to Parliament and the Council proposals relating to: . the adoption of mandatory procedures for the presentation of reports, . the setting up of a confidential system for the voluntary presentation of reports, . the payment of compensation to victims of air accidents, - to set 31 December 1995 as the final date for the Council to give a ruling on the proposals presented by the Commission; - to guarantee access to the site of the accident or incident, as well as to the airplane, its wreckage and cargo, including luggage. �

• 1994/03/08 Debate in Parliament
  • Debate in Parliament summary

• 1994/02/16 Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
  • A3-0071/1994
• 1993/10/13 Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
• 1993/09/01 Legislative proposal published
  • COM(1993)0406 summary

    This proposal for a directive sought to establish the fundamental principles governing national investigations of civil aviation accidents and incidents, in accordance with the most recent principles outlined by the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO): it established the principle of an obligation to investigate and requested the Member States, first, to define a specific legal framework for defining the status of the investigation and the powers of the investigators and, secondly, to designate as competent a permanent qualified independent body, which would have to draw up a report for each investigation. �

Documents

• Legislative proposal published: COM(1993)0406
• Committee report tabled for plenary, 1st reading/single reading: A3-0071/1994
• Debate in Parliament: Debate in Parliament
• Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading: T3-0142/1994
• Modified legislative proposal published: COM(1994)0102
• Council position published: 05605/1/1994
• Committee recommendation tabled for plenary, 2nd reading: A4-0016/1994
• Debate in Parliament: Debate in Parliament
• Decision by Parliament, 2nd reading: T4-0054/1994
• Modified legislative proposal published: COM(1994)0503
• : Directive 1994/56
• : OJ L 319 12.12.1994, p. 0014

History

(these mark the time of scraping, not the official date of the change)