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I voted against Mr Atkins’ report because it is totally at odds with the real world and is in keeping with an a priori ideological vision rather than with any concern to meet the real needs of our fellow-citizens and air transport users.
We cannot, of course, deny that there is a need to improve the situation of regulation and air traffic control in Europe in the spirit of the single European sky. It is perfectly obvious that the aircraft in our airspace should not be on the receiving end of inconsistent, uncoordinated and complicated handling of their flight plans. And it is true that, although some progress has been made with Eurocontrol, the time has already come to move on to the next phase and to improve the system, bearing in mind one absolute imperative: safety. Regulation and air traffic control must not be subject to the law of competition, but rather to the concept of a general interest service. Moreover, the United States have never liberalised their own air traffic control, as this is managed by a single state agency. That just goes to show!
The Atkins report, however, is entirely concerned with the goal of opening the service up to competition, even though it is hard to see exactly how it could be a source of private profit or how the profits made could possibly reflect its performance!
The pretext for driving forward this liberalisation, furthermore, is delays in flights. This is certainly a situation that must be remedied, but, in order to be effective, we should really analyse the actual reasons for delays and the real solutions. We should first of all note that there have been positive developments this year as delays have substantially reduced in France. This indicates in the first place that we should make a distinction between temporary disruption (use of airspace by the military for Kosovo, the change in the control system, etc.) and structural problems.
We must also measure the problems due to the air companies or the limited European civil airspace with regard to the number of overflights. Air traffic control does not play a very significant part in causing delays, in the final analysis, and, in any case, improvement of the system involves improving the organisation of the coordination of the various Member State control systems, supporting Eurocontrol in this role.
This should be the priority and the guidelines on the single European sky. Unfortunately, the Commission does not appear to be on this track, and the Atkins report is even further off the mark."@en1
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