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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2004-01-28"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Single European sky2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20040128.7.3-082"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2004-01-28-Speech-3-0832
lpv:speaker	lp:Nelly Maes2
lpv:spokenAs	vice-chair; G/EFA (2002-01-08--2004-07-19)3 unknown; België Spirit (2002-01-08--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Slovak Republic Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-04-30)3 member; Members from the European Parliament to the Joint Parliamentary Assembly of the Agreement between the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the European Union (ACP-EU) (2002-02-06--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Development and Cooperation (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, first of all, my congratulations and thanks to both the rapporteurs, Mr Fava and Mrs Sanders-ten Holte. I should also like to thank them for their dedication to bringing common interests to the fore. It is clear, after all, that the whole political spectrum in this House advocates greater European powers in order to better guarantee safety. I think that our national governments will have to be accountable. If an accident should happen, this would be owing to our continuing strong adherence to national lines, and so countries would have to answer to their own citizens regarding the lack of a genuine Single Sky. We often parade the principle of subsidiarity, of which I am a great supporter, but that subsidiarity must also apply from the bottom up. If this is necessary for the sake of the safety of air transport, the national authorities must be prepared to hand over power to the European Union. Anything else would be irresponsible. I recently had a conversation with the federal authorities of the United States, where no fewer than 48 000 people are engaged in monitoring air transport safety under a single federal umbrella. In my opinion, the degree of safety must not be subordinate to our great predilection for diversity. If there is one place where diversity should not apply, that is in matters of safety monitoring. For that reason, we agree with you that we are taking a step forward with the Single Sky today, but we could actually have taken this step as long as 20 years ago, and we should have been able to go much further today than we have now gone. Naturally, we are not blind to the improvements that have been made in the arrangements discussed during the negotiations. Nevertheless, we should like to emphasise that accidents of this kind, such as the one near Lake Constance, give us a further impetus to go over to those cross-border airspace blocks, in order to preclude the possibility of even more accidents of this kind occurring as a result of poor communications. All in all, the improvement that we have here is still insufficient. After all, if we look at the way in which the civilian and military spheres are already cooperating on interoperability to a certain degree for the benefit of safety, we see that the concept of national sovereignty is invoked much too often there, and that could be detrimental to safety. That is a priority for this entire Parliament."@en1

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