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Mr President, I wish to thank the Members who were keen to react to the excellent reports by Mr El Khadraoui and Mr Zīle. On this occasion, I am very willing to confirm my intention to inform Parliament on a very regular basis about the strategic guidelines of our policy of international negotiations. Once again, I wish to thank our two rapporteurs for their excellent work. There is a great deal of scope for developing the aviation sector, and this is an integral part of our transport policy.
I am obviously delighted with your very broad support for regulatory convergence, which, as an objective, goes hand in hand with markets being opened up. With certain partners not doing enough to guarantee a fair and efficient commercial environment, regulatory convergence is a priority. Markets can only be opened up gradually when a more careful approach is required. At times, we even need to adopt a firm stance. This is already the case, and it will increasingly become so where Russia and the issue of Siberian overflights are concerned, as Mrs Kauppi highlighted a short while ago. There is also the fact that these overflights are the subject of arbitrary charges. I am therefore delighted with your clear and unequivocal support on this point.
I intend to pay a great deal of attention to safety and security issues, which sometimes urgently crop up in this sector. Aside from competition, we must be vigilant in ensuring that the social and environmental standards are fully complied with. In this regard, I wish to say to Parliament that the fact that we have a European strategy and that we can sign horizontal agreements is advantageous, because that enables us to influence international civil aviation law. A united Europe is far more able to bring about the development of certain standards and to steer them towards a higher quality, as much for the environment as for the social dimension. With this in mind, allow me to take the liberty of telling you, Mrs Kauppi, that the ‘operating standards’ text is currently at the stage of being finalised with a view to a common position being adopted by the Council. The lawyer-linguists need to translate this text, and the intention is then to send it back to Parliament for a second reading towards March or April.
Finally, I should like to say that the progress of the ‘open skies’ negotiations with the United States should give the necessary impetus to the Community approach, which follows on from the Court of Justice judgment. In this regard, it is premature to give a precise assessment of the situation: we are awaiting a clearer insight into the US Transport Ministry’s new interpretation of the control rules for US airlines. It is true, however, that we have made a great deal of progress, particularly with regard to regulatory convergence, on which we have practically reached an agreement, and I hope that these negotiations will give a determined and decisive boost to the Community approach. This approach is clearly far preferable to bilateral agreements, which will never be as effective for our European industry.
This is a fine illustration of the fact that, in certain areas, the Union would do well to speak with one voice. You will understand, Mr President, that I wish to thank Parliament in particular for strongly supporting the Commission in this strategy to promote a specifically European style of negotiation, which I believe must also be beneficial to each of the Member States, as well as to our entire European industry.
I thank our rapporteurs and Parliament for having taken an interest in this aspect of external relations and of our international negotiations. This aspect will become more important, given the increasingly significant role the aviation industry is required to play in the world."@en1
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