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Mr President, I shall be very brief. It is true that two companies have caused this situation, one quite directly and the other in a more general way. It is also true that various ministers, in their speeches at the last Council and in a letter that they have sent to me, have expressed their concern at the situation. I repeat, however, that although there have been no complaints, this proposal will enable the Commission to take formal action.
With regard to the transatlantic agreements, the problem is that, at the moment, there is no EU-US agreement, for example. There are only bilateral agreements with Member States of the Union, and these do not contain clauses that, in general, provide for the resolution of these situations of unfair competition.
Where insurance is concerned, the situation, in principle, has not changed. We still maintain that on 31 March, the special guarantee for the provision of insurance by the Member States will end for new risks related to terrorism or to war. Nevertheless, the Transport Council is due to look at this issue and consider practices in the United States and in Japan, because a normal insurance market will not function unless the United States and Japan and their airlines are also involved.
I wish to thank Mr Jarzembowski and Hatzidakis for their questions. I should like to say to Mr Jarzembowski that this measure will work against any third country that grants State aid which is used by its companies to distort competition and which, therefore, encourages unfair competition.
As for Switzerland, ladies and gentlemen, you are all aware that the transport agreement has still not entered into force, not through any fault of Switzerland, but because of the three European Union countries that have not yet ratified it. The fact of the matter is that we do not know how long this situation will take to be resolved. In any event, also with regard to Switzerland, we must be adequately covered from the legal point of view.
I should like to reply to Mrs Foster’s question on proof. Ladies and gentlemen, in all of these types of mechanism, the States involved must provide proof. Sometimes, third countries are reluctant to do this. One possibility is that
compensatory rights could be imposed, to be paid by companies engaged in unfair competition, to compensate for and eliminate this unfair competition. These rights will be limited to artificial price lowering, but under no circumstances can this lead to additional costs to what is a reasonable fare, as defined in the texts we are debating.
I forgot to say in my answer to Mr Jarzembowski that we are investigating unfair competition within the European Union, when it occurs and, to be specific, at the moment we are looking at a problem concerning the use of an airport in Belgium."@en1
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