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"Mr Atkins' report addresses an issue which is perhaps the most important issue which either Mrs de Palacio or we in the European Parliament will have to deal with over the next four or five years and I must start by congratulating Mr Atkins on his approach in this specific report.
Despite which, there is clearly a huge problem here. Overall delays in flights have risen from 12.7% in 1991 to 30% in 1999. By 2010, the number of flights will have more or less doubled, resulting in wasted time, financial loss, saturation and, hence, safety risks. Eurocontrol has proven to be inadequate as a mechanism for managing air traffic. It is therefore absolutely essential that Vice-President de Palacio take decisive action, as she has done so far, in order to establish a real single European sky. The Member States must overcome their perhaps justified anxiety as regards the management of their airspace and, at some point, must take a longer-term view of newly-emerging needs which goes beyond their borders and beyond the present situation. We need to take immediate action and to regulate the myriad technical details, such as relations between civil and military aviation. In the meantime, however, passengers must be compensated for delays by airlines and must, of course, be apprised of their rights.
I should like to close my intervention by reminding the House that, when the European Parliament voted on the report for the Intergovernmental Conference, it took view that the regulatory operation of air traffic in Europe, in our Member States, should be taken over by the European Union."@en1
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