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Madam President, I wish to congratulate my colleague Jörg Leichtfried on his human qualities and on his ability to make friends in a complex parliamentary confrontation on such a technical issue, but also so vital an issue, in order to ensure safety in such an important sector for European economic development as aviation.
I also wish to state my satisfaction at the progress made in relation to safety, a difficult and complex issue if ever there were one, with some areas that are totally clear, as today’s report shows, and others rather darker, although I prefer not to say which areas occur to me. Today we have certainly taken another stride towards finalising a long and complicated process, at least part of which began many years ago with the transfer of JAR-OPS requirements to EU-OPS requirements; I refer in particular to the progress made concerning rest and flight time.
At that time both Parliament and the Commission committed ourselves to charging the Agency with moving forward on an issue which, though difficult, ultimately filled an inexplicable gap and, at that particular time, required updating. Thus I am pleased that those involved were able to accept this commitment, which I feel was important and was what Parliament was bound to do. All in all, I feel these issues will have to be reviewed following the study and the proposals now being drawn up by the Commission on the situation of the aviation sector in terms of social and employment issues, an important concern.
I am also very pleased at the agreement on cabin crew, whose professionalism and certification must be recognised. As the Commissioner rightly said, it is in everyone’s interest from the point of view of safety for training to be improved.
I am likewise very pleased at the positive outcome of the definition of helicopters, which at one point had created cause for concern in the production sector.
I also feel the solutions provided on penalties are extremely important, as also Parliament’s control not only in relation to comitology, in the case of flight time, but also in relation to the right to information, in the case of the Management Board.
I wish to congratulate the rapporteur on his flexibility and clarity in connection with the Agency’s budget, since, as a member of the Committee on Budgetary Control, I feel it is essential for this kind of Agency.
To end, I wish to express the hope that the Agency can develop without clashing with Eurocontrol. In my opinion European and worldwide aviation safety needs both bodies, and it needs both to be equally effective."@en1
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