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"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, first of all, I shall, like most of my fellow Members, praise the efficient work of the rapporteur, Mr Ingo Schmitt, who has worked in a constructive manner with the Council and the Commission. As a result, we have a balanced compromise text and one which gives us every opportunity to avoid conciliation. I would like to stress the quality of the amendments tabled by the rapporteur and the need to make up for lost time. We have already waited too long.
In the area of transport, as in many other areas as well, it is our duty to ensure that a similar, high level of security is provided in the Member States. It is also high time that the aeronautics industry benefited from a single certification for placing its products onto the market.
I hope that the European Aviation Safety Agency will be able to start work in the very near future and it must be able to provide a single certification for the Airbus A 380. This will represent the completion of many years of work by engineers, staff and employees and it is evidence of what Europeans can do, what they can achieve when they work together. It is a powerful symbol. The first test flight of the A 380 is planned for 2004, the first commercial flight for 2006 – just around the corner, in other words.
In order to fulfil its tasks, the European Aviation Safety Agency must be independent and rely on skills and qualifications that can be found in the Member States. As we know, the European Agency must not be used to coordinate the work of the existing national agencies. We must firstly strive to be efficient, and, in this respect, it is easy to understand that for certification work, the European Agency must work in conjunction with the major European design and manufacturing companies. I think that the regional agencies would be a good way to enable this to happen.
Ladies and gentlemen, Europe must offer practical advantages to its citizens. To do this, we must provide the same level of security, for a single sky, and a single certification in a single market. The text before us today is an important step in this direction."@en1
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