Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-09-03-Speech-2-029"
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"Mr President, introducing competition within the air navigation services will not reduce delays to flights, nor will it harmonise Europe’s skies, as the Commission claims.
Competition would, in fact, compound these difficulties, as competition hampers cooperation. Applying productivity criteria to what is merely a question of commercial profitability cannot improve the service provided to air transport users. More importantly, though, attacking the public and integrated character of air traffic control services and, therefore, breaking the safety chain that this service provides, only increases the risk. Unfortunately, the air disaster that occurred at Lake Constance in July served as a tragic reminder of this.
Air traffic controllers are quite right to reject the so-called ‘Single Sky’ project, a message reinforced during their Europe-wide strike on 19 June, and the risk that it involves.
My colleagues, Mrs Laguiller and Mrs Bordes, and I condemn the breaking up – planned by the Commission – of this public service in preparation to hand it over to private greed. The shareholders of the airlines, of the aeronautics industry and the information technology sector are already calculating the profits that they will make from the break-up. If you strip the draft text of the pretexts put forward by the Commission, the reality of this project becomes all too evident.
We therefore reject the project outright, and we shall vote against the Fava and Sanders-ten Holte reports as privatisations and the pursuit for profit are harmful and incompatible with progress, with the concern for safety, with the possible and necessary renationalisation of human activities, on land as well as in the air."@en1
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