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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I believe we have made a lot of progress with regard to the proposal to review the current Community rules on the allocation of slots at airports. I would also like to say that I have previously expressed my pleasure at the pragmatic approach Parliament has always taken to this issue and I would like to congratulate the rapporteur, Mr Stockmann, on the excellent work he has done.
I do not like all the content of the Council's common position either – the honourable Member is well aware of this – and, specifically, I do not like the fact that the Council has not accepted the small elements which had been introduced into the issue of the marketing of slots, which clarified the current situation. But if I had not demonstrated this pragmatism as well, we would unfortunately still be deadlocked.
As the honourable Member has said quite rightly and as we all know, there are very positive elements in the document from a technical point of view, and it is therefore worthwhile ensuring that it goes ahead. The most important thing is that we finally know what a slot is, because, until now, we did not know what its legal nature was. We were not very sure what it was that has such great value – and we have seen this in the event of the sale, purchase or bankruptcy of air companies. They are called Grandfather rights, but what type of rights? Now we know what type of rights we are talking about. The clarification of the legal nature of slots will allow us to take the next step, Mr Stockmann, which I hope to have presented before the end of the year. And, in this regard, I made a statement to the meeting of the Council when it adopted the common position, which I accepted, to the effect that before the end of the year we will present a legislative proposal providing for the appropriate clarification and regulation of the market, of the exchange and the negotiation of these rights.
Today we are approving the nature of those rights. With this proposal we will be able to establish, as well as the current system, which does not theoretically allow for any type of negotiation of those rights, the clarification of how those rights can be negotiated within a transparent system, bearing in mind that there are public service aspects clearly associated with the use of those slots in different airports.
In any event, to this end, we have already begun the preparatory work and we are consulting the States of the Union, as well as the different interested parties. We did this before making this proposal. The responses we received at that time were not the most appropriate. I hope that we will receive them now and we will be able to present that document before the end of the year and, in any event, I believe, Mr Stockmann, that the step forward we are taking today is extremely important and that it greatly improves both the legal aspect and a technical aspect. We are finally stating what a slot is, which is no small issue given their economic value at the moment."@en1
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