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PURPOSE: to conclude\n an agreement on the modernisation of the existing system of utilisation of\n the Transsiberian routes between the European Community and its Member\n States, on the one hand, and the Russian Federation, on the other hand.
PROPOSED ACT:\n Decision of the Council and the representatives of the governments of the EU\n Member States meeting within the Council.
BACKGROUND:\n this draft agreement aims to solve the issue of Siberian overflight payments\n requested by the Russian Federation from EC carriers for overflights over\n Russian territory which were
an important stumbling block in\n EU-Russia relations. The payments are an EU-Russia trade irritant which has\n to be solved before Russia's accession to WTO.
The agreement will strengthen\n transport cooperation in the framework of the EU-Russia Common Economic\n Space. It lays down general principles which will have to be implemented in\n bilateral air services agreements between Member States and the Russian Federation.
Based on the negotiating\n directives of the mandate, the text of the agreement was agreed ad referendum\n at the final negotiating round on 24 November 2006 between Vice-president\n Barrot and Mr. Levitin, Transport Minister of the Russian Federation, in the\n margins of the EU-Russia summit in Helsinki.
CONTENT: the\n agreement contains key principles which must be implemented in the bilateral\n agreements between Member States and the Russian Federation and includes the\n following results:
In a separate\n letter, the Russian Minister Levitin stated the Russia Federation's readiness\n to increase overflight frequencies for EC carriers in future bilateral\n negotiations with Member States. The increase of overflight frequencies to\n Asian destinations will be made taking into account the traffic rights\n obtained by EU Member States to destinations in the Far East.
Lastly, it\n should also be noted that bilateral\n air services agreements will be amended, but will remain in force.
\nThe Lisbon\n Treaty, which entered into force on 1 December 2009, amended the EU's two\n core treaties, the Treaty on European Union (TEU) and the Treaty establishing\n the European Community (EC Treaty). The latter was renamed the Treaty on the\n Functioning of the European Union (TFEU).
These changes\n had various consequences for many ongoing procedures. First of all, the\n articles of the TEU and of the old EC Treaty that constitute the legal basis\n of all the proposals founded on those Treaties were renumbered in\n accordance with the table of equivalences mentioned in Article 5 of the\n Lisbon Treaty.
In addition,\n some proposals underwent a change to their legal basis going beyond a mere\n change to their numbering, and this resulted in changes to the type of\n procedure.
The Lisbon\n Treaty also introduced new concepts of decision-making procedure. The\n old \"codecision procedure\" was extended to new areas and renamed\n the \"ordinary legislative procedure\". A new \"consent\n procedure\" replaced the old \"assent procedure\". New\n interinstitutional procedures were also set up for the adoption of certain\n non-legislative acts, for example the conclusion of some international\n agreements.
The ongoing proposals\n concerned by these changes were formally modified by the Commission in a\n Communication published on 2 December 2009 (COM(2009)0665).
In the case of\n the proposal for a Decision of the Council and the Representatives of the\n Governments of the Member States of the European Union, meeting within the\n Council on the conclusion of the Agreement in the form of an Exchange of\n Letters on \"Agreed Principles of the Modernisation of the existing\n system of utilisation of the Transsiberian routes\" between the European\n Community and its Member States, on the one hand, and the Russian Federation,\n on the other hand, the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty had the\n following impacts:
· \n the old legal basis – Treaty/EC/Art.80(2), Art.300(2) first para, (3) first para and\n (4). – became Art 100(2), Art 218 (6)(a) and (7) of the TFEU. Please\n note that the numbering of the old legal basis corresponds to the\n consolidated version of the Treaty that was applicable immediately before the\n entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty, and may differ from the references in\n the original Commission proposal;
· \n the proposal, which had previously fallen\n under the old consultation procedure (CNS), was classified as an\n interinstitutional non-legislative procedure (NLE).
\nPURPOSE: to conclude\n an agreement on the modernisation of the existing system of utilisation of\n the Transsiberian routes between the European Community and its Member\n States, on the one hand, and the Russian Federation, on the other hand.
PROPOSED ACT:\n Decision of the Council and the representatives of the governments of the EU\n Member States meeting within the Council.
BACKGROUND:\n this draft agreement aims to solve the issue of Siberian overflight payments\n requested by the Russian Federation from EC carriers for overflights over\n Russian territory which were
an important stumbling block in\n EU-Russia relations. The payments are an EU-Russia trade irritant which has\n to be solved before Russia's accession to WTO.
The agreement will strengthen\n transport cooperation in the framework of the EU-Russia Common Economic\n Space. It lays down general principles which will have to be implemented in\n bilateral air services agreements between Member States and the Russian Federation.
Based on the negotiating\n directives of the mandate, the text of the agreement was agreed ad referendum\n at the final negotiating round on 24 November 2006 between Vice-president\n Barrot and Mr. Levitin, Transport Minister of the Russian Federation, in the\n margins of the EU-Russia summit in Helsinki.
CONTENT: the\n agreement contains key principles which must be implemented in the bilateral\n agreements between Member States and the Russian Federation and includes the\n following results:
In a separate\n letter, the Russian Minister Levitin stated the Russia Federation's readiness\n to increase overflight frequencies for EC carriers in future bilateral\n negotiations with Member States. The increase of overflight frequencies to\n Asian destinations will be made taking into account the traffic rights\n obtained by EU Member States to destinations in the Far East.
Lastly, it\n should also be noted that bilateral\n air services agreements will be amended, but will remain in force.
\nThe Lisbon\n Treaty, which entered into force on 1 December 2009, amended the EU's two\n core treaties, the Treaty on European Union (TEU) and the Treaty establishing\n the European Community (EC Treaty). The latter was renamed the Treaty on the\n Functioning of the European Union (TFEU).
These changes\n had various consequences for many ongoing procedures. First of all, the\n articles of the TEU and of the old EC Treaty that constitute the legal basis\n of all the proposals founded on those Treaties were renumbered in\n accordance with the table of equivalences mentioned in Article 5 of the\n Lisbon Treaty.
In addition,\n some proposals underwent a change to their legal basis going beyond a mere\n change to their numbering, and this resulted in changes to the type of\n procedure.
The Lisbon\n Treaty also introduced new concepts of decision-making procedure. The\n old \"codecision procedure\" was extended to new areas and renamed\n the \"ordinary legislative procedure\". A new \"consent\n procedure\" replaced the old \"assent procedure\". New\n interinstitutional procedures were also set up for the adoption of certain\n non-legislative acts, for example the conclusion of some international\n agreements.
The ongoing proposals\n concerned by these changes were formally modified by the Commission in a\n Communication published on 2 December 2009 (COM(2009)0665).
In the case of\n the proposal for a Decision of the Council and the Representatives of the\n Governments of the Member States of the European Union, meeting within the\n Council on the conclusion of the Agreement in the form of an Exchange of\n Letters on \"Agreed Principles of the Modernisation of the existing\n system of utilisation of the Transsiberian routes\" between the European\n Community and its Member States, on the one hand, and the Russian Federation,\n on the other hand, the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty had the\n following impacts:
· \n the old legal basis – Treaty/EC/Art.80(2), Art.300(2) first para, (3) first para and\n (4). – became Art 100(2), Art 218 (6)(a) and (7) of the TFEU. Please\n note that the numbering of the old legal basis corresponds to the\n consolidated version of the Treaty that was applicable immediately before the\n entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty, and may differ from the references in\n the original Commission proposal;
· \n the proposal, which had previously fallen\n under the old consultation procedure (CNS), was classified as an\n interinstitutional non-legislative procedure (NLE).
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