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Mr Staes, I live in an area of Brussels which is very pleasant – as is the whole of Brussels – very lovely, close to a wonderful park, and I have a railway track passing by my house and therefore a series of trains pass each night. So I would like to ask you, are we going to prohibit trains from passing because they make noise and wake me up? In my case, since you are interested, I must say that I occasionally hear a train and on occasions they have woken me up, because I do not always sleep sufficiently deeply. Mr Staes, I must also tell you that when I bought the house the railway track was already there.
Secondly, as I have said, we are aware of the problem of noise and international rules have been agreed within the International Civil Aviation Organisation to produce analyses and studies, to consider what solutions are available in order to reduce the acoustic impact in inhabited areas close to airports and to resolve them. It is true that one of the possibilities is to suspend nocturnal flights. That possibility exists and there are several airports in Europe which are doing so.
Thirdly, what you are asking, Mr Staes, is that, as well as suspending flights and in order to continue enjoying that tranquillity, airports should close. But there are airports which do not have these problems, because nobody is living nearby, because they are more isolated, because they have different routes. You are asking, for example, that they should close in the north of Finland in order not to create problems for workers in Brussels.
Mr Staes, I am not going to propose that. Amongst other things because, if I did, it would be a comparative advantage. And competition in Europe is based on a series of values and one of them is this. And that is not unfair competition. They are quite simply different situations. And if Brussels has problems, it must adapt to these situations and, possibly, suspend night flights, but what you cannot ask is for the suspension of night flights in Athens because there are problems in Brussels. Perhaps UPS flies to Athens. If this is the case, what can I do about it?
I could give you several examples of comparative advantage of other types. And that is how competition works. I am sorry, Mr Staes, but it will not be me who presents that proposal."@en1
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