Activites

• 2003/07/04 Final act published in Official Journal
  • Directive 2003/42
  • OJ L 167 04.07.2003, p. 0023-0036
• 2003/06/13 Final act signed
• 2003/06/13 End of procedure in Parliament
• #2505
• 2003/05/13 Council Meeting
• 2003/05/13 Decision by Parliament, 3rd reading
  • T5-0195/2003 summary

    The European Parliament adopted a resolution approving the joint text agreed by the Conciliation Committee. (Please refer to the summary dated 27/03/03.)�

• 2003/04/09 Joint text approved by Conciliation Committee co-chairs
  • 3619/2003
• 2003/03/27 Report tabled for plenary, 3rd reading
  • A5-0118/2003
• 2003/03/27 Final decision by Conciliation Committee
• 2003/02/18 Formal meeting of Conciliation Committee
• #2484
• 2003/02/06 Council Meeting
• 2002/10/23 Decision by Parliament, 2nd reading
  • T5-0497/2002 summary

    The European Parliament adopted the resolution draft by Mr Gerard COLLINS (UEN, Ire) on the common position for adopting a European Parliament and Council directive on occurrence reporting in civil aviation. Amendments made by the Parliament include the insertion of a new Article 8 (2a) which states that Member States shall refrain from instituting proceedings in respect of unpremeditated or inadvertent breaches of the law, which come to their attention only because they have been reported under the national mandatory occurrence-reporting scheme, except in cases of gross negligence. As regards the issue of confidential reporting, the Parliament has reinstated this Article (now Article 8a) that stipulates that Member States shall adapt their laws, regulations and administrative provisions to permit the disidentification of voluntary reports of non-reportable occurrences by bodies created to collect, analyse and disseminate to parties able to use it for improving safety, information on observed deficiencies in the aviation system perceived by the reporter as an actual or potential hazard.�

• 2002/10/08 Vote in committee, 2nd reading
  • A5-0347/2002
• 2002/07/03 Committee referral announced in Parliament, 2nd reading
• #2438
• 2002/06/17 Council Meeting
  • 08133/1/2002 summary

    The Council was able to incorporate into its common position, either wholly or in substance, most of the amendments submitted by the European Parliament at first reading. In this connection, attention is drawn to the following amendments: - to underline the importance of ensuring consistency with the ICAO's technical reporting requirements, a reference to the ICAO has been added (recital 16). - in Article 8 concerning the protection of information, the Council, in agreement with the European Parliament, has deleted paragraph 3, and in order to take fuller account of Member States' national law the Council has also decided to delete paragraph 4 and has made certain other corresponding amendments to that Article. - in order to ensure that a system capable of improving safety can be established as quickly as possible, the Council has accepted the two-year deadline proposed by Parliament for the entry into force of the relevant laws. The amendments below are the main ones introduced by the Council in its common position: - scope: temporary exclusion of Gibraltar. It should be noted that a Joint statement by the Council and the Commission has been included which states that the Council and the Commission confirm that the suspension of the application of this Directive provided for in Article 2(4) is without prejudice to the fact that the EC Treaty applies to Gibraltar; - mandatory reporting: adjustment of the drafting to take account, among other things, of certain operational trends (e.g. leasing); - collection and storage of information: amended to give greater flexibility in the choice of one or more competent authorities to manage the occurrence reports; - exchange of information: simplified wording, does not affect the scope of the article; - dissemination of information: amendment of the wording to bring it more into line with the text of the regulation establishing the European Aviation Safety Agency. Given the extent of the amendments which affect the text of the Commission proposal and one of the amendments by the European Parliament, a joint Council and Commission statement will be issued announcing that additional measures will be taken by the Commission assisted by the committee provided for in Article 9; - protection of information: simplified wording and deletion of paragraph 3. The Commission regrets the deletion of paragraph 3 which gave a clear political signal about the principle that the occurrence reporter should be regarded as conveying an important positive message for air safety and therefore encouraged to do so without risking any counterproductive sanctions; - confidential reporting: Article 9 of the amended proposal has been deleted by the Council although it was supported by the European Parliament, the Economic and Social Committee and the organisations representing civil aviation personnel.�

• #X016
• 2002/03/25 Council Meeting
• #2374
• 2001/10/15 Council Meeting
  • 2374
• 2001/09/25 Modified legislative proposal published
  • COM(2001)0532 summary

    This amended proposal relates to the following: - the addition of a reference to the development taking place in the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) to show that compatibility with other technical reporting requirements such as those of ICAO's ADREP (Accident/Incident Reporting) system should also be ensured. It should be noted that a representative of ICAO is participating in the ECCAIRS (European Co-ordination Centre for Aviation Incidents Reporting Systems) Steering Committee; - occurrence reporting : in the original proposal, occurrences had to be reported to the competent authority designated by each Member State. The amendment proposed by the Parliament was aiming at reporting the occurrence to the competent authority of the country where the occurrence took place, the competent authority which certified the operator. The proposed wording could have led to multiple reporting of the same occurrence to different authorities, introducing the risk of biasing the analysis by entering several times the same incidents, giving it an undue importance. For this reason, the modified proposal introduces a new paragraph which requires Member States to notify other interested authorities of occurrences entered into the database; - dissemination of information: this question has drawn many comments from the members of the Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism of the European Parliament. The Commission also received comments from the Association of European Airlines, Airports Council International and European Cockpit Association expressing concerns on this particular subject. For this reason, the Commission welcomed the amendment proposed by the European Parliament which reinforces the conditions attached to the dissemination of information; - the deletion of a paragraph which aimed to protect the persons involved in good faith in an occurrence with the only limitation that, in the legislation of most of the Member States, the judicial authorities cannot be denied access to any information in the context of an inquiry; - the protection of reporters and the information they supply; - the two year period to comply with the Directive: this time period seems to be realistic and sufficient to guarantee the earliest possible introduction of a system beneficial for safety.�

  • DG ['Energy and Transport'],
• 2001/06/14 Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
  • T5-0337/2001 summary

    The European Parliament adopted, with a few technical amendments, the report by Mr Gerard COLLINS (UEN, IRE). (Please refer to the previous text).�

• 2001/06/13 Debate in Parliament
  • Debate in Parliament
• 2001/05/29 Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
  • A5-0203/2001
• 2001/01/15 Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
• 2000/12/19 Legislative proposal published
  • COM(2000)0847 summary

    PURPOSE : to create the necessary legal framework to collect and disseminate information on aviation incidents in order to produce a safer system. CONTENT : the general objective of this proposal is to contribute to the improvement of air safety by ensuring that safety critical information is reported and collected, stored, protected and disseminated in order to facilitate its effective analysis and monitoring. A network of national mandatory occurrence reporting systems will be based on the ECCAIRS (European Co-ordination Centre for Aviation Incident Reporting System) system developed by the Joint Research Centre in Ispra and the creation of confidential reporting systems on regional or sub-regional basis will be supported, providing they comply with Commission's operational requirements. To recall, the first piece of Community legislation specific to air transport was a Directive of 1980 on accident investigation. It then adopted its communication on 'Community initiatives concerning civil aviation incidents and accidents'. Which suggested a policy to prevent accidents by launching initiatives in three areas: accident investigation, mandatory occurrence reports and confidential reporting systems. The adoption of a Directive on accident and investigation in November 1994 was the first definitive achievement of this policy. However, the limitations of this approach was mainly that, as the number of accidents is fortunately very low, the opportunities to learn from them are limited and that lessons are drawn only after a tragedy has already happened. It is now proposed to complement this first initiative with a more proactive one that will address both mandatory and confidential reporting of incidents, defects or malfunctions which may constitute a hazard for civil aviation operations, called under the generic term of "occurrences". Therefore, it is the aim of this proposal to establish a Community mandatory reporting scheme to collect, record, exchange and disseminate information on hazardous or potentially hazardous occurrences. In this way, the Civil Aviation Authorities and persons or organisations having an influence on air safety may learn from them and an assessment of the safety implications of each occurrence can be made. �

  • DG ['Energy and Transport'],

Documents

• Legislative proposal published: COM(2000)0847
• Committee report tabled for plenary, 1st reading/single reading: A5-0203/2001
• Debate in Parliament: Debate in Parliament
• Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading: T5-0337/2001
• Modified legislative proposal published: COM(2001)0532
• Debate in Council: 2374
• Council position published: 08133/1/2002
• Committee recommendation tabled for plenary, 2nd reading: A5-0347/2002
• Decision by Parliament, 2nd reading: T5-0497/2002
• Report tabled for plenary, 3rd reading: A5-0118/2003
• Joint text approved by Conciliation Committee co-chairs: 3619/2003
• Decision by Parliament, 3rd reading: T5-0195/2003
• : Directive 2003/42
• : OJ L 167 04.07.2003, p. 0023-0036

History

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