RAPORT referitor la propunerea de decizie a Consiliului privind încheierea acordului dintre Comunitatea Europeană și Emiratele Arabe Unite privind anumite aspecte ale serviciilor aeriene

27.2.2008 - (COM(2007)0134 – C6‑0472/2007 – 2007/0052(CNS)) - *

Comisia pentru transport și turism
Raportor: Paolo Costa
(Procedura simplificată - articolul 43 alineatul (1) din Regulamentul de procedură)

PROIECT DE REZOLUȚIE LEGISLATIVĂ A PARLAMENTULUI EUROPEAN

referitor la propunerea de decizie a Consiliului privind încheierea acordului dintre Comunitatea Europeană și Emiratele Arabe Unite privind anumite aspecte ale serviciilor aeriene

(COM(2007)0134 – C6‑0472/2007 – 2007/0052(CNS))

(Procedura de consultare)

Parlamentul European,

–   având în vedere propunerea de decizie a Consiliului (COM(2007)0134)[1],

–   având în vedere articolul 80 alineatul (2) și articolul 300 alineatul (2) primul paragraf prima teză din Tratatul CE,

–   având în vedere articolul 300 alineatul (3) primul paragraf din Tratatul CE, în temeiul căruia a fost consultat de către Consiliu (C6‑0472/2007),

–   având în vedere articolul 51, articolul 83 alineatul (7) și articolul 43 alineatul (1) din Regulamentul său de procedură,

–   având în vedere raportul Comisiei pentru transport și turism (A6‑0043/2008),

1.  aprobă încheierea acordului;

2.  încredințează Președintelui sarcina de a transmite poziția Parlamentului Consiliului și Comisiei, precum și guvernelor și parlamentelor statelor membre și ale Emiratelor Arabe Unite.

• [1]  Nepublicată încă în JO.

EXPUNERE DE MOTIVE

As ruled by the Court of Justice of the European Communities, the Community has exclusive competence with respect to various aspects of external aviation which were traditionally governed by bilateral air services agreements between Member States and third countries.

Consequently, the Council authorised the Commission in June 2003 to open negotiations with third countries in order to replace certain provisions in existing bilateral agreements with Community agreements.

Thus, the Commission has negotiated an Agreement with the United Arab Emirates that replaces certain provisions in the existing bilateral air services agreements between Member States and the United Arab Emirates.

These changes concern:

Art. 2 (designation clause): To avoid discrimination between Community air carriers, the traditional designation clauses, referring to air carriers of the Member State party to the bilateral agreement, are replaced by a Community designation clause, referring to all Community carriers and EEA carriers.

Art. 4 (taxation of aviation fuel): Whereas traditional bilateral agreements tend to exempt aircraft fuel in general from taxation, Council Directive 2003/96/EC restructuring the Community framework for the taxation of energy products and electricity permits such taxation for operations within the territory of the Community. Under Article 4, the provisions of Directive 2003/96/EC likewise apply to aircraft of designated air carriers of the United Arab Emirates operating within the territory of the Community. Furthermore the United Arab Emirates is entitled to impose taxes on fuel supplied in its territory for use in aircraft of a designated air carrier of a Member State operating within the territory of the United Arab Emirates.

Art. 5 (pricing): Resolves conflicts between the bilateral agreements and Council Regulation (EEC) 2409/92 on fares and rates for air services, which prohibits third country carriers from being price leaders on air services for carriage wholly within the Community.

Annex 1 and 2 list the bilateral agreements and their articles which are referred to in Article 1 to 5 of the proposed Agreement; these are the agreements between the United Arab Emirates and Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom.

Annex 3 lists the other states referred to in Article 2: Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway - which fall under the Agreement on the European Economic Area - and Switzerland falling under the Agreement between the European Community and the Swiss Confederation.

The Agreement negotiated by the Commission should be signed and provisionally applied. The proposed Council Decision empowers the President of the Council to designate the person or persons competent to notify the United Arab Emirates that the internal procedures necessary for the entry into force of the Agreement have been completed.

Parliament is entitled to give its opinion on this Agreement under the consultation procedure, in accordance with Rule 83 'International agreements', paragraph 7, which reads as follows:

"Parliament shall give its opinion on, or its assent to, the conclusion, renewal or amendment of an international agreement or a financial protocol concluded by the European Community in a single vote by a majority of the votes cast without amendments to the text of the agreement or protocol being admissible."

On the basis of the above your rapporteur suggests that the TRAN committee should give a favourable opinion on the conclusion of this Agreement.

PROCEDURÃ

Titlu	Acordul dintre CE și Emiratele Arabe Unite privind anumite aspecte ale serviciilor aeriene
Referințe	COM(2007)0134 – C6-0472/2007 – 2007/0052(CNS)
Data consultării PE	18.12.2007
Comisia competentă în fond        Data anunțului în plen	TRAN 15.1.2008
Raportor(i)        Data numirii	Paolo Costa 10.4.2007
Procedură simplificată - data deciziei	11.4.2007
Data adoptării	26.2.2008
Rezultatul votului final	+: –: 0:	37 0 0