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Mr President, I should like to thank Mr Leichtfried, the rapporteur, for his good work. Along with the rest of the world, Europe needs to ensure that its civil aviation operates safely and effectively when transporting both goods and passengers. The same applies to recreational aviation, aero sports and pilot training.
The necessary technical, organisational and legal measures must therefore be taken. Clearly, issues relating to environmental protection and the workers employed in the aviation industry must not be neglected either. All this obviously has a specific financial dimension.
Regulation (EC) No 1592/2002 currently in force is almost five years old and has served its purpose fairly well. The time has now come, however, for us to take account of the new circumstances that have arisen partly because of the ongoing exponential increase in air traffic movements and the terrorist threat, and partly because of the need to tidy up and unify the whole complicated system of provisions, procedures and standards relating to aviation.
The regulation under discussion must therefore be in line with other provisions for this sector, starting with the Chicago Aviation Convention. We must cherish the hope that the European Aviation Safety Agency will be ready to undertake the tasks entrusted to it diligently, working in cooperation with individual Member States, which I believe is very important. We must also hope that safety standards will be unified and that the resulting standards will be high.
It is worth highlighting the important role played by international cooperation in air transport. It is regrettable that there is a lack of representation of the European Union in the ICAO, which is the UN body dealing with global aviation issues. This shortcoming must be remedied. The regulation provides for the Aviation Safety Agency to deal also with aircraft from third countries. This is appropriate, and will allow checks to be carried out to ensure that third country operators meet safety standards before they are authorised to operate.
I also agree with the rapporteur as regards increasing the competence of the Agency to include matters currently handled by Eurocontrol. On behalf of the Union for Europe of the Nations Group I support this regulation and almost all the amendments. I would, however, like to emphasise that our activities must focus primarily on the passenger and on the safety and comfort of his or her journey, including both the time spent at airports and the time in flight. I believe it is necessary to continue the process of harmonising European and global provisions in this important area."@en1
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