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"The aim of this Regulation is the effective implementation of EU legislation on the internal air transport market. This is of critical importance for the effective and economic functioning of the air services market within the harmonised and coordinated rules.
Parliament has also succeeded in achieving the position that distribution between air traffic routes should depend on direct communication between the airports concerned.
The Council has unreservedly accepted 29 of Parliament’s amendments and rejected 8, primarily because of technicalities.
Therefore, ladies and gentlemen, I believe that we can accept the Council common position. I do not think that any further amendments or a third reading would bring any significant results. We have achieved what we intended to achieve. Therefore, I would like to recommend that we accept the Council common position, as it has basically been influenced by Parliament’s first reading.
This position was accepted by a majority in the Committee on Transport and Tourism.
Prompt adoption of this Regulation would enable the aviation sector to adapt to the upgraded legal environment because there would be only one regulation instead of three.
I do believe that these fundamental achievements would allow Members to support the common position without amendments and to vote in favour of the resolution.
This Regulation replaces and combines three existing regulations: the Regulation on the licensing of air carriers and the leasing of aircraft, the Regulation on free access for Community air carriers to intra-Community air routes and the Regulation on the liberalisation of air fares.
The Regulation we have in front of us today is for the most part based on experience acquired in the course of the implementation of relevant existing regulations.
Parliament completed its first reading of this Regulation in July 2007. The Council adopted its common position on 18 April 2008.
As rapporteur, I, together with the shadow rapporteurs, arranged in-depth discussions with interested parties and institutions. Moreover, after first reading in Parliament, we had several meetings with representatives of the country holding the Presidency of the Council to ensure that the issues we were working on were reflected in the common position.
Having thoroughly analysed the common position, I can confirm that it corresponds to the political agreement adopted by the Council last December, which reflects the issues that concern us fairly well.
With the aim of achieving appropriate implementation of social rights, reference is made in the annex to the document, based on the position of both the Commission and the Council, that the Member States should ensure adequate application of employment rules and conditions, including the maximum employment term and minimum rest periods.
From now on, as Parliament has stated, the transparency of air fares, including their presentation on the Internet, would be ensured.
The proposals on ‘wet’ and ‘dry’ aircraft lease agreements adopted by Parliament, as well as the position on restrictions on ‘wet’ aircraft leasing, have also been adopted."@en1
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