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member; Delegation for relations with the countries of the Andean Community (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3
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Madam President, Commissioner, Mrs De Veyrac, ladies and gentlemen, there is no doubt that the European Union may have achieved a number of things in the field of air safety, but it has certainly not yet achieved enough. In just the one month, August, we had the spectacle of five air accidents, and no sooner has September begun than something similar has come to pass. What this again highlights is not only the sad topicality of the debate around the Commission’s proposal for a regulation on information for airline passengers, but also the urgent need for rules to enhance safety in the air transport sector.
In the interests of greater security, the rapporteur, in her report on the proposal for a regulation, went much further than the Commission proposal, and so let me extend my especial congratulations to her on it. I welcome in particular the demand for a single shared list based on shared and harmonised objective criteria, as well as the associated demand for a flight ban to be imposed on the airlines on it. Many of those airlines that do not abide by European safety standards are less interested in flying than in making money; they must be listed, publicly shamed, and punished.
It is only right that I should, at this point, mention and welcome the latest initiative by France and Belgium, whereby lists are to be published of airlines banned from flying in both French and Belgian airspace. It has to be said, though, that this again shows us how important it is that the criteria and the list be harmonised; for example, no airline appears on both the French and Belgian lists. As it is a fact that members of the European public do not travel only within the EU, I see the option of including worldwide airlines on this list as indispensable, or else the information will not really be relevant to them. Passengers also need to be informed as to who is in charge of the flight, and they need better and easier access to information about safety deficiencies. It goes without saying that there should always only be one person to whom the passengers can address their concerns or with responsibility for dealing with them.
As, however, any regulation without consequences would be an ineffective one, passengers must be in a position to draw their own conclusions. It would be logical for them to be entitled to cancel their booking and receive not only the price of their ticket but also compensation, but there must also be the possibility of going beyond flight bans and imposing sanctions on the airlines in the form, for example, of administrative penalties if they fail to comply with the obligation to provide information. I am glad that we can expect the Commission’s support for this, and that everyone in this House acknowledges that it is imperative that this regulation be transposed as soon as possible."@en1
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