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"Mr President, the Council is aware of the increasing delays in Europe’s air traffic. This subject was discussed in the Council on 19 July 1999, and it was decided to adopt a resolution. The Council expressed its concern over the problems being caused by delayed flights, which are becoming more serious, and considered that action needed to be taken to find a solution to these problems and in this way respond to the demands by the citizens of Europe for a better service. The Council urged the Commission in particular to produce a report on recent and current measures in place to try to reduce air traffic delays and congestion in Europe. The problem was further discussed in the Council sitting of 6 October 1999, and it was decided that a thorough debate should be held on the issue in the next sitting of the Council in December, on the basis of a report currently being drafted in the Commission. The Council asked the Member States to do their very best before then to reach a positive decision in their current talks on the question of the Community joining Eurocontrol, the European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation. Eurocontrol is a key coordinator in Europe’s air traffic control system.
In its sitting of 9 and 10 December 1999, the Council held a large-scale debate on the Commission’s new report on air traffic control, which was delivered to the Council and the European Parliament on the Single European Airspace. That report analyses the situation with regard to delayed flights and proposes some short-term measures to address the problem and puts forward some ideas about how the problem should be tackled in the longer term. The Council noted with satisfaction the Commission’s proposals for short-term action to try to ease the situation that resulted from delayed flights in Europe. The matter will be addressed by Eurocontrol and the Ministers responsible for civil aviation in their meeting to be held on 28 January. In addition, the Council noted the Commission’s approach to the structural reform of air traffic, which was broader in scope and which set out to create a single European airspace. At the same time, it noted with satisfaction the Commission’s intention to set up a high level Working Group to look into the matter and report back to the Council next June on the issues involved. The Council also urged the Permanent Representatives Committee to examine the Commission’s report and agreed to return to the issue at the next meeting."@en1
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