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As we have highlighted throughout this process, the aim is to amalgamate and deliberately confuse ‘competition’ with ‘transparency’.
Obviously it is necessary to determine the relevant criteria for airport charges and what these charges actually represent.
However, this should not occur within a policy aimed at liberalising and privatising a strategic public service such as air transport, particularly by creating a ‘truly competitive airport market’, applying the ‘user pays’ principle and requiring profitability in a public service. Indeed, as we have previously highlighted, the aim even seems to be to remove the ‘supervisory role’ from public control, by transferring this to ‘independent’ supervisory authorities or bodies.
We would reiterate that previous privatisation in this sector has not resulted in added value in the services provided, but has helped to destroy jobs and reduce workers’ rights and, in some cases, caused technical and operational problems.
Despite the outermost regions not having been explicitly excluded from the scope of the directive (by recognising the permanent natural and geographical disadvantages and constraints affecting these regions and by establishing adequate derogations from compliance with universal public service obligations), as we proposed, we welcome the fact that the directive’s scope has been limited to airports with more than 5 million passengers per year."@en1
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