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"Commissioner, Mr President, the Sharm el-Sheikh disaster will hang over aviation for a long time. We share the victims’ pain, but there is more! I think many French people, many Europeans have identified with the victims because they express part of our way of life. We try to break with the everyday, and to do so we travel far. We look for a change of scenery, sunshine in winter, and for that you have to go a long way. And then we look for cheap services, and for that, too, you have to go a long way. If we want this freedom or this mobility to last, then we shall have to increase air safety and be more strict, as we are over safety in other sectors.
As a result, this air safety is going to become a top priority again because that, at least, is something over which we can and must have some control. Of course, we need first of all to know the causes of the accident. There is a lot of talk about them at the moment, but they are not really known. I think that is a necessity for all of us, even if for some the priority is to find someone to blame.
A long time ago, in 1996, the Commission presented a proposal following the crash of an aircraft belonging to a Turkish airline. Nothing came of it because some States, Spain and the United Kingdom at the time, were in dispute over Gibraltar. Since then, an Aviation Safety Agency has been set up, but it cannot encroach on States’ air traffic control, and some of these States, France in particular, often use the pretext of their sovereignty to curb its activities.
Another text has been under discussion since 2002. I hope that this time it will be agreed quickly and that the recent accident will speed us towards a solution. Lists have been made of rust-bucket ships. We must now do the same for aircraft. If some need to be done away with, let us make a list of them, Commissioner.
Finally, like others before me I would like to stress that yes, it is wrong that a passenger who buys a charter ticket does not know which airline he will be flying with. We cannot demand labelling and traceability standards for GMOs but at the same time not worry about them for aircraft. Labelling and traceability are necessary in aviation as well."@en1
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