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"I should like to start by thanking the rapporteur Mr Leichtfried for his excellent cooperation. Ladies and gentlemen, every time a new agency comes into being or an agency’s powers are to be extended on the basis of a regulation, we need to ask ourselves whether the number of people and powers is commensurate with the requirements of the organisation concerned.
Common rules in the area of civil aviation are indisputably important. As with the previous regulation, the problem lies in the definition of civil aviation in the field to which the rules relate. There remains a discrepancy between the rules in the United States and those in the EU, not least in the definition of the specifications of the ultralight category. Perhaps the negotiators in the EU and the US will come to this question at a later stage of negotiation and the outcome will be incorporated into an amendment to the new regulation in force in the EU.
As regards the Agency, I take the view that the proposed number of employees and the budget are inappropriate for fulfilling the task of coordination and control. National testing has hardly been taken into account. I believe that this question will be assessed and handled by the Council. The proposals in question will strengthen the European Air Safety Agency (EASA). I do not support all of them for practical reasons. In particular, I do not welcome the idea of bringing the testing of ultralights under central control.
I should like in particular to mention Amendment 5, regarding which I fail to understand why the Commission’s proposal restricts small aeroplanes with a take-off mass of 5 700 kg to a maximum number of nine passenger seats. This proposal runs counter to the job of developing small aircraft in the CESAR programme, which was adopted more than a year ago by the Commission on the basis of the third challenge laid down by the Sixth Framework Programme on science and research.
The new amendment lays down 19 seats for passengers pursuant to the proposal in the CESAR programme. As regards the call for the entire air crew, and not just the pilots, to be qualified, the amendments specify the original wording, and for this reason I support them. Unfortunately, the clear removal of the ultralight category from the scope of the EASA has not happened. As Mr Remek said, this refers to all aircraft lighter than 600 kg. It would be appropriate if, in this category of aeroplanes, the control and testing procedures that have been adopted could be applied in such a way that national testing bodies would continue to perform the verifications."@en1
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