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| Role | Committee | Rapporteur | Shadows |
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| Opinion | ECON | ||
| Lead | TRAN | VÄYRYNEN Paavo (ELDR) |
Legal Basis EC Treaty (after Amsterdam) EC 080-p2
Activites
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2001/12/11
Additional information
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2001/12/11
End of procedure in Parliament
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1999/09/16
Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
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T5-0015/1999
summary
The European Parliament confirmed its first reading in the context of the codecision procedure of the text that it adopted on 31.03.1998 concerning this proposal for a directive.�
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T5-0015/1999
summary
- 1999/07/28 Committee report tabled for plenary confirming Parliament's position
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1999/07/28
Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
- #2142
- 1998/11/30 Council Meeting
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1998/09/14
Modified legislative proposal published
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COM(1998)0509
summary
The Commission's amended proposal incorporates the European Parliament's amendments dealing with the following: - the general interest of services and airport facilities; - the non-application of the Community framework to small airports; - the airports should be managed as commercial operations; - the adoption of measures to monitor the cost/efficiency relationship of airport charges; - the provision of a quality service to airport users; - the raising of the threshold for general traffic to movements of 1 million passengers; - the definitions of the terms 'airport', 'managing body', 'airport charges' and 'airport network'; - the consultation and complaint procedures.�
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COM(1998)0509
summary
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1998/03/31
Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
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T4-0176/1998
summary
In adopting the report by Mr Paavo VÄYRYNEN (ELDR, Fin) Parliament approved the proposal for a directive on airport charges calling for it to apply to any airport, airport system or national airport network open to commercial traffic and where the annual traffic was at least 1 million passenger movements or 25 000 tonnes of freight. Parliament also called for the management body of an airport to be able to take account of all or part of the airport's income that was not derived from airport charges when establishing the total level of its charges. When determining the level of such costs, particular account should be taken of: - the cost of financing the facilities, including depreciation in the value of the assets over the life of the assets and the financing of any facilities for which the project and the date of commencement of the works have the express consent of the majority of users and/or their representative bodies; - other financial costs; - expenditure on operation, renovation and maintenance; - specific identifiable external environmental costs due to air traffic, in line with recognized international and European standards. Parliament also called for the airport charges for domestic flights applicable in the major national airport to be able to be established at a level which permitted the management body to support financially the levels of airport charges in regional airports in the same Member State, on condition that: - this financial support came from revenue other than the airport charges in the major airport; - this support came out of the reasonable return on assets achieved at the major airport from airport charges; - traffic on the route to the major airport made up more than 50% of total passenger or freight traffic at the regional airport. Parliament also called for the airport charges applicable on an airport system to be able to be designed, with the prior agreement of users, to encourage traffic to move from the major airport to a neighbouring smaller, less congested airport where the market was deemed to be contiguous. Lastly Parliament called for the management body at each airport to arrange for consultation with airport user of their representatives each time there were plans to modify the charges. In the event of disagreement a party might refer the matter to an independent arbitrator to be designated by each Member State or seek legal redress before a national Court or another independent public authority. �
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T4-0176/1998
summary
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1998/03/30
Debate in Parliament
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Debate in Parliament
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Recalling that the basic principles of airport charges were non-discrimination, cost-relatedness and transparency, Commissioner Kinnock said that he could accept Amendments Nos 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 9 and 21 subject to a certain amount of redrafting. However, he rejected Amendment No 5 as the main justification for these types of network – cohesion – was lacking. Mr Kinnock also rejected Amendments Nos 8, second paragraph, and 18. As regards the cross-subsidies covered by Amendments Nos 10, 20 and 26, the Commissioner said that he was against both abuses and the complete exclusion of these types of practice or, with greater reason, their limitation to domestic flights because this would contradict the basic principle of non-discrimination. In addition, although Mr Kinnock agreed with the idea of environmental charges only addressing local problems, he was against Amendment No 11 which went beyond the aim of modulations in charges. Amendment No 12 also had to be rejected as the proposal in question was only meant to ensure greater transparency in the airport charging system and not harmonise the airport sector in Europe. As for Amendment No 13 introducing an independent arbitration body, this could not be accepted as it was inconsistent with the legal system provided for by the Treaty in terms of interpreting Community law. The Commissioner finally specified that he accepted Amendments Nos 16, 17, 22 and 23 but was against the following amendments: Nos 14, 15, 19 (which, among other aspects, was incompatible with the non-discrimination principle), 24 and 25 (as the latter would penalise air transport).
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Debate in Parliament
summary
- 1998/03/17 Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
- #2059
- 1997/12/10 Council Meeting
- #2031
- 1997/10/09 Council Meeting
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1997/07/18
Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
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1997/04/23
Legislative proposal published
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COM(1997)0154
summary
OBJECTIVE: the proposal for a Directive is an element in the liberalization of aviation. It seeks to establish a Community framework for airport charges. SUBSTANCE: the proposal seeks to ensure that airport charges are non-discriminatory, cost-related and transparent. It applies to all Community airports open to commercial traffic where the annual volume of traffic is at least 250 000 passenger movements or 25 000 tons of freight. The main provisions concern the following: -the principle of non-discrimination for all intra-Community air services which are equivalent in terms of the type or characteristics of the aircraft, the distance flown and/or the administrative and customs formalities; -definition of the relationship which must exist between the amount of charges demanded by an airport and the overall cost of the services and facilities which these charges are intended to cover, taking into consideration the objective of economic and social cohesion. This relationship is introduced because of the monopoly situation of the management body as regards the provision of the facilities and services giving rise to the collection of charges; -provision for the management body to modulate the charges in accordance with the management needs of the facilities concerned or changes in the amount of use made of the airport, but also with a view to protecting the environment; -the principle that air carriers must be informed by the airport on the level of invoicing and the charges collected or anticipated; -introduction of a system for the consultation of airport users (at least once a year); -obligation for the Member States to adopt the measures necessary to guarantee the effective implementation of the common rules; -principle of cooperation between the Member States and the Commission in implementing the Directive.�
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COM(1997)0154
summary
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1996/11/14
Additional information
Documents
- Legislative proposal published: COM(1997)0154
- Debate in Council: 2031
- Debate in Council: 2059
- Committee report tabled for plenary, 1st reading/single reading: A4-0088/1998
- Debate in Parliament: Debate in Parliament
- Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading: T4-0176/1998
- Modified legislative proposal published: COM(1998)0509
- 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
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