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"Mr President, on behalf of the ELDR Group, I wish to thank the rapporteur, Mrs Foster, for the excellent way in which she has drafted the proposal with regard to this important matter. We still have a number of unresolved issues before us on which we should try to achieve a balanced result which suits everyone. As has already been said here before, the Council, for its part, has not done its homework sufficiently well and has not considered or discussed Parliament’s proposals at all thoroughly. It is therefore reasonable for our committee to propose that some key amendments be revised even though we are now on the home straight.
Our group has tabled Amendment No 34 to Article 4, which concerns legal provisions for small airports. Flexibility is needed here. The amendment makes the wording more specific in such a way that at the same time it increases flexibility with regard to the types of aircraft being used. I would also ask Members to consider whether that form of wording achieves a compromise that suits us all with regard to solving the problem of small volumes of air traffic without incurring enormous costs.
Secondly, I want to emphasise the importance of Amendment No 8, which concerns announced inspections. It is important. If there is a constant threat of an EU inspection, standards tend to be kept up. However, if an inspection had to be announced, everything necessary to improve security for air travel would not be done beforehand. In addition we have to ensure that matters drawn attention to after the inspection are actually put right.
Our group has worked on the assumption that it must be taken into account in dealing with these matters what it is reasonable to do at EU level and what it is better to leave to the Member States’ own discretion, in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity. For that reason we are not very keen on amendments that mean increased costs without, however, significantly improving security. Action taken must be in proportion to what is reasonable for each country. The same goes for monitoring, where it is only sensible to take account of the particular circumstances that apply."@en1
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