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lpv:speaker	lp:Keith Taylor2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, colleagues, I speak to you today as the rapporteur on last year’s report on Regulation (EU) 261/2004 and Regulation (EU) 1008/2008 and also as the Green shadow for Mr Bach’s report today. I would like to thank the rapporteur for his very constructive approach, and I am very pleased to say that we have been able to change the emphasis in the Commission proposal from one which was largely pro-industry – pro-airline – to one which is much more pro-passenger, and that is the version we will vote on today. Although my Group’s view that compensation should be paid after one hour was not carried, a compromise of three hours was, and that also mirrors the European Court of Justice’s position of three hours as the trigger. So this is considerably better than the starting point of the Commission, which was five hours. We are also able to support the narrowing of the extraordinary circumstances to stop airlines hiding behind this excuse to avoid paying compensation to travellers to whom it is due. I am pleased to see the recommendations about better communication with passengers, and I also hope that implementation can be improved. In that regard, I think that our suggestion of independent mediation bodies will prove very useful. Also, the environmental impact and energy efficiency of passengers’ travel will be provided on the website and on the tickets for the journey. We cannot expect people to be more responsible about carbon emissions if they do not know what the effect of their activities will be. All in all I am very pleased to be able to support this report, and I would like to thank Mr Bach once more for his constructive approach."@en1
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