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"Mr President, the continued increase in air traffic, which is expected to double over the next decade, is placing unprecedented pressure on air travel safety. It has been well documented that air transport is a very safe mode of transport and this should, and must, remain the case. However, we must all work to ensure that air accidents are reduced to a bare minimum.
The continent of Europe accounts for about 10% of all accidents worldwide, while one third of air traffic takes place in European skies. It is clear that a large proportion of the measures needed to improve air safety should be geared towards preventing accidents, rather than providing a response when accidents have happened. Incidents occurring in one Member State are not necessarily known in another Member State and similar circumstances can lead to fatal accidents. That is why I welcome this European Commission proposal.
As a result of this new initiative, all European Union Member States will establish formal incident-reporting systems to facilitate the collection of information on actual or potential safety deficiencies involving aeroplanes in Europe. Setting up a system that allows for safety and civil aviation authorities to share information available from the different reporting schemes will enable all parties involved learn from their mistakes thereby producing a safer system for all air users in future.
Article 75 of the Treaty of Maastricht introduced the legal basis for the introduction of Community measures to improve the level of transport safety in Europe, thereby creating a Community competence in this field. The adoption of a directive on accident and investigation in November 1994 was the first EU response to the use of these new powers. However, the limitation of the 1994 directive was that as the number of accidents is fortunately very low, the opportunities to learn from them are very limited and lessons can, therefore, be drawn only after an accident has already happened. It is now proposed to complement this first initiative with a new directive that would address both mandatory and confidential reporting of incidents, defects or malfunctions which may constitute a hazard for civil aviation operations, called "occurrences".
The objective of this new directive is to contribute to the improvement of air safety by ensuring that essential safety information is reported and collected, stored, protected and disseminated in order to facilitate its effective analysis and monitoring.
A network of national mandatory occurrence reporting systems will be based on a system developed by the Joint Research Centre in Ispra in Italy. These reporting systems would also be complemented by the creation of confidential reporting mechanisms which will be put in place across the territories of the European Union. The proposed European Aviation Safety Agency will need this kind of data if it is to carry out its work effectively.
In conclusion, it is incumbent on all legislators within the European Union to ensure that the utmost is being done to ensure that air travellers are entirely safe in the journeys they take. The specific proposal is part of a number of measures presently being proposed by the Committee on Transport of this Parliament to improve the quality and safety standards of air travel for all users."@en1
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