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". – Mr President, I should like to begin by paying tribute to the work put in by the rapporteur, Mrs Sanders-ten Holte, on what has turned out to be an extremely complex report, and for her patience and cooperation in taking on board a number of points which the Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market raised in its detailed consideration of the proposals brought forward tonight.
In my remarks I would like to commend the report to the House. I believe that it will result in an increase in protection for air passengers. However, speaking from a personal point of view, there are one or two issues which remain unresolved to my own satisfaction. Hence my tabling, with my colleague, Mrs Foster, of two amendments which reflect the need for these problems to be resolved. This basically centres around the dispute which Mrs Sanders-ten Holte has alluded to, which originated in my own country, the United Kingdom, as to the validity of the original regulation to which the new proposals relate. Until this legal dispute is satisfactorily settled it is my belief that the report should be held in abeyance. This position is complicated by two factors.
The first is the fact that the Montreal Convention, which governs matters globally, has not yet been ratified by sufficient countries to give it binding effect. Nor is this likely to be the situation for some years to come.
Secondly, as referred to by the rapporteur, there is the issue of extra-territoriality. Whilst, to a certain extent, a number of the amendments which have been proposed to the report improve the situation, there are still one or two issues which need to be addressed, in my opinion.
We must avoid any regulatory imposition on airlines which, while quite rightly protecting passengers' interests, actually achieves exactly the opposite by imposing rules which render European companies less competitive than the rest of the industry. Unfortunately some clauses still contained in the regulation would result in just such a scenario.
I hope the House will accept the amendments as a benefit to passengers. I commend the report to the House in its entirety."@en1
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