Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-06-13-Speech-3-244"
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"Mr President, I welcome with satisfaction the proposals before us because I believe that not only will aviation safety in general be improved, but this will also strengthen cooperation procedures, as well as reinforcing preventive strategies. Importantly, this report will also offer an adequate degree of confidentiality for the people closely involved, who have the most intimate knowledge of how to run a safe aviation industry: I refer to aircraft crew, air traffic controllers and maintenance personnel.
It is also important for us to stress best practice, particularly in the area of research and development. Here we welcome the setting up of the European Coordination Centre for Aviation Incident Reporting. That is why we support the rapporteur, who has been as careful as ever to ensure consistency between EU legislation and the international framework provided by the ICAO. This is also the reason why we cannot accept the excessive restrictions implied by some amendments adopted in committee, especially those that seek to hide the responsibilities of the operators. Companies will not become safer and more competitive if we hide these responsibilities. We believe that customers have the right to be fully informed.
Similarly we cannot accept those amendments that deliberately try to weaken the position of people in the industry, whose duty it is to accurately point out incidents. To have a reliable system of occurrences reporting in civil aviation, we have to ensure confidentiality for the people who report them. The Commission's proposals are right, even if there may be a risk of legal implications. The only risk to safety we can see comes from an attempt to dilute the proposals in favour of the airline companies.
I thank Mr Collins for his excellent report and hope that his common sense approach will be adopted by Parliament."@en1
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