Activites

• 2003/03/11 Final act published in Official Journal
  • Regulation 2003/437
  • OJ L 066 11.03.2003, p. 0001-0008
• 2003/02/27 Final act signed
• 2003/02/27 End of procedure in Parliament
• 2002/12/18 Decision by Parliament, 2nd reading
  • T5-0616/2002 summary

    The European Parliament adopted a resolution based on the report by Samuli POHJAMO (ELDR, Finland) and approved the Council's common position.�

• 2002/11/27 Vote in committee, 2nd reading
  • A5-0416/2002
• 2002/10/11 Committee referral announced in Parliament, 2nd reading
• #2451
• 2002/09/30 Council Meeting
  • 10011/2/2002 summary

    Following the agreement reached by the UK and Spain at the beginning of 2002 on Gibraltar airport, the proposal for a regulation was re-tabled for discussion by the Council. Now that the Council has endorsed the general structure and main provisions of the proposal, the common position, which has been unanimously adopted, is basically consistent with the Commission's initial proposal. The Council approves of the objective of the proposed measure, which is to produce harmonised statistics on the transport of passengers, freight and mail by air comparable to those for other modes of transport. Considering inter alia the strong growth in air traffic and the growing importance of inter-modality, such statistics have become increasingly important to ensure the proper functioning of the European Union's transport system. The Member States will be responsible for the data collection and methods used, and data should, where possible, be compatible with international data provided by ICAO. In addition to the "Gibraltar" clauses, which have been incorporated, the main modifications as compared to the Commission proposal can be summarised as follows: - the Council considered it appropriate not to include the "airline code" in the transmission of data to EUROSTAT. This term has been replaced with "airline information", to collect information such as the country of licensing of the airline or whether the airline is based in the EU. A declaration by the Commission, which considers the information on "airline code" as essential for decision making and as a means to control information quality, will be entered in the Council Minutes; - thresholds and transition periods for reporting, as provided in Article 3, have been modified to take account of the fact that, for certain airports, statistics corresponding to those specified in Annex I are not yet collected, and that, as a consequence, the introduction of a new data collection system may prove difficult. The deadline for complete transmission to EUROSTAT has been set to end of September 2006; - article 11 now provides that the Statistical Programme Committee will be subject to the procedures for the exercise of implementing powers conferred on the Commission, set up by Council Decision 1999/468/EC, and that the Committee will be of a regulatory nature; - the Council introduced an amendment concerning the definition of "passenger unit" as "either one passenger or 90 kilograms of freight and mail". With regard to the new provisions introduced by the Council, the Council had to take account of a new feature - namely application of the codecision procedure - and of the changes made to the legal framework governing Community statistics since 1995. �

• #2438
• 2002/06/17 Council Meeting
• 1999/09/16 Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
  • T5-0015/1999 summary

    The European Parliament confirmed its first reading in the context of the codecision procedure of the text voted upon on 29.02.1996 concerning this proposal for a regulation.�

• 1999/07/28 Committee report tabled for plenary confirming Parliament's position
  • A5-0005/1999
• 1999/07/28 Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
• #2142
• 1998/11/30 Council Meeting
  • 2142
• #1907
• 1996/03/11 Council Meeting
  • 1907 summary

    The Council reached broad agreement on the draft Council Regulation on statistical returns in respect of carriage of passengers, freight and mail by air, subject to a small number of outstanding problems being resolved.�

• 1996/02/29 Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
  • T4-0103/1996 summary

    By adopting the report by Mr Seppo Pelttari (ELDR), Parliament approved the Commission proposal, subject to amendment of the section of Annex II entitled 'Definitions and statistical variables'. The EP takes the view that, for the purposes of the list of Community airports referred to in the Regulation, a passenger unit should correspond to 1 passenger or 90 kg (instead of 75 kg) of freight and mail. �

• 1996/02/28 Debate in Parliament
  • Debate in Parliament
• 1996/01/23 Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
  • A4-0009/1996
• 1995/10/09 Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
• 1995/09/14 Legislative proposal published
  • COM(1995)0353 summary

    OBJECTIVE: The proposal for a regulation aims to improve the comparability and coherence, at Community level, of statistics in the field of air transport. SUBSTANCE: - Collection of reliable, regular, updated, harmonized and comparable statistical data on the carriage of passengers, freight and mail by air, and on aircraft movements both within the Community and between the EC and third countries, with a view to the preparation of quarterly and annual statistics on air-transport operators using Community airports. Member States are to be responsible for collecting the information and for applying the appropriate methodology; - Dissemination of Community statistical data to national administrations and access to data on the air transport market for EC airports and for air transport operators; - Member States are able to exclude very small airports from the scope of the regulation and can request that slightly larger airports which meet certain conditions only have to submit summary annual statistics. �

  • DG [{'url': 'http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/eurostat/home', 'title': 'Eurostat'}],

Documents

• Legislative proposal published: COM(1995)0353
• Committee report tabled for plenary, 1st reading/single reading: A4-0009/1996
• Debate in Parliament: Debate in Parliament
• Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading: T4-0103/1996
• Debate in Council: 1907
• Debate in Council: 2142
• Committee report tabled for plenary confirming Parliament's position: A5-0005/1999
• Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading: T5-0015/1999
• Council position published: 10011/2/2002
• Committee recommendation tabled for plenary, 2nd reading: A5-0416/2002
• Decision by Parliament, 2nd reading: T5-0616/2002
• : Regulation 2003/437
• : OJ L 066 11.03.2003, p. 0001-0008

History

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