Transportation Industry

AIRPORTS: EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT OPPOSES LIBERALISATION OF AIRPORTS

Transport Europe, December, 1995

Summary: The European Parliament has confirmed that it intended to limit the liberalisation of ground-handling services in the EU's airports by its vote of November 16 in plenary session in Strasbourg. The MEPs nonetheless made several amendments to a report by UK Socialist Barry Seal. They feel that liberalisation should apply only to airports with annual traffic of more than 4.5 million passengers or 50,000 tonnes of freight, while the European Commission's original proposal (COM(95)590) set the threshold at two million passengers.

Neil Kinnock, the European Commissioner for Transport, opposes the new threshold, pointing out that the number of airports in the entire European Union concerned by liberalisation would be reduced from 50 to 30.

The Commission...

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