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"Mr President, as an aside, I should like to inform you that the Irish have just won the first race at the Cheltenham festival. I thought you might be interested.
My views on the present hushkit legislation are on the record. It was very questionably driven by design criteria and not performance criteria. So I welcome this adoption of an ICAO balanced approach to air traffic noise reduction as it amounts to a fundamental system change for the European Union. However, I have many reservations.
This Commission proposal states that noise reduction efforts are now to be assessed on the basis of individual airports, with a view to imposing operating restrictions on aircraft. It has opted for the airport-based approach along the lines of ICAO Resolution A337. I support a package of measures for our larger and busier airports covering aspects such as land-use planning and management, operational restrictions and a ban on the noisier Chapter 3 aircraft. However, as others have said, the effectiveness or otherwise of this proposal as a means of reducing air traffic noise will only be known after the Commission has submitted its report on its findings in over five years' time.
I would particularly like to congratulate our rapporteur, Mr Jarzembowski, for his hard work and the close contact he has maintained with both the Presidency-in-Office and the Commission in an effort to find a way forward and – given the critical deadline of 1 April – to prevent a legislative vacuum from occurring. It is imperative for all of us in this House, if possible, to avoid a second reading. That said, it is extremely unsatisfactory for us, as legislators to have been asked to rush through such a technical piece of legislation. I am not happy about the whole procedure.
I would, however, like to sound a note of caution. Although these proposals are very necessary and overdue in the context of the hushkits regulation and the US complaint and, indeed, the recent opinion of the Advocate General, the UK Government's position points out some flaws in the Commission's approach. So the 1 April deadline still looks rather ambitious."@en1
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