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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2002-09-03"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Air navigation2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20020903.2.2-028"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-09-03-Speech-2-0292
lpv:speaker	lp:Jan Marinus Wiersma2
lpv:spokenAs	member; PETI (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; PES (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 chair; Delegation to the EU-Ukraine and the EU-Moldova Parliamentary Cooperation Committees and Delegation for relations with Belarus (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Partij van de Arbeid (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation for relations with the NATO Parliamentary Assembly (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 member; Conference of Delegation Chairs (2002-02-07--2002-09-24)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, this debate is not only about safety or the elimination of delays through better cooperation at European level. In my view, this debate also has an international political dimension. Cooperation is the EU's strength but also its weakness. It is useful to conclude agreements about European rules on aviation, including the use of airspace. However, the weakness lies in the way this is done: slowly and with a large number of reservations on the part of the nation states. As is evident from Kyoto and the whole affair surrounding the International Criminal Court, we in the European Union try to emulate the United States on the international stage. The Americans often try to play us off against each other, and often, we are unable to offer any resistance. The aviation dossier is a case in point. If you compare the European Union with the United States, it is evident how much better things are organised over there and how weak we often still are. The debate and the Fava report also show that we are still not agreed by a long shot on the use of airspace and the rules for air traffic control. This discussion is immaterial in the US, as it has one aviation authority. I therefore believe it is important, also in the light of this debate, to make swift progress and to work on a system, a set of rules, which can form the basis of one space instead of fifteen different regulations that are given a common European denominator in one way or another. I should like to conclude with a remark about Mrs Maes' report, which is excellent. It is good that we can now finally wrap up this dossier. It has gone on for too long, partly as a result of the Gibraltar issue. There are risks involving third-country aircraft, often because these are obsolete. This creates unjustified risks, including for airports in the EU at which passengers board these planes. I welcome an inspection system, and I should like to congratulate Mrs Maes once again on her sterling report."@en1

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