Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-03-13-Speech-2-335"
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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, in 2002, you approved Regulation 1592/2002. This Regulation set up common rules for the airworthiness of aircraft and established the European Aviation Safety Agency.
You agreed that an optimum and uniform level of safety could only be achieved by extending the scope of this text, and consequently the competences of the European Aviation Safety Agency, which have been extended to air operations, pilot licensing and safety of third-country aircraft.
You also expressly asked the Commission to make a proposal to this end. It is time to put an end to an anomaly. While planes develop in complete freedom within a unified market, the safety level remains disparate between Member States.
You know as well as I do that the rules worked out by specialised intergovernmental organisations are implemented very differently within the Community. Consequently there are great national disparities, not to mention the fact that it is not always the most rigorous standards that are applied.
You asked that we should pursue efforts to improve the general level of air safety in Europe. That is the goal of the proposal that we are discussing, since it aims to extend the common rules to air operations, pilot licensing and the safety of third-country aircraft, that is, to give the Community tools that would contribute to increasing the safety of air transport in Europe.
The proposal also reinforces the obligations of Member States in respect of inspection of planes of both third countries and of Member States. It gives the Agency the power of inspection extended to all the activities of the civil aviation authorities of the Member States and their companies as well as the airlines, and that is in order to check that they are complying with the common rules. A system of penalties is also envisaged, such as withdrawal of mutual recognition in the event of non-compliance.
This text is part of a coherent package of measures for the improvement of aviation safety. I will briefly remind you of them: the black list, which allows those airlines that least respect safety rules to be banned from our countries, the strengthening of systems for the inspection of planes – SAFA directive – and very soon the Commission is going to propose completing this regulatory framework by extending the competences of the European Aviation Safety Agency to airport security and to air navigation, as set out in the attached regulatory proposal that you are examining today.
Therefore, by 2010, the Community will have a coherent and uniform set of safety rules and a unique organisation, the European Aviation Safety Agency, responsible for preparing, implementing and completing their application.
Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I wish to congratulate you and to thank you for your contribution to this strategy for the strengthening of European aviation safety. I shall listen with interest to your speeches on this subject that is obviously vital for the citizens of the European Union."@en1
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