Answer given by Mr Hahn on behalf of the European Commission
17.12.2021
The Commission draws the Honourable Member’s attention to the Commission Decision C/2018/0700[1] under which ‘the use of air taxis must be authorised by the President. As a general rule, the air taxi may be authorised only under exceptional circumstances, either when commercial flights are not available to reach a destination or when they cannot fit with the Member of the Commission's diary, or for security reasons. A careful check of all options should be made, including agenda planning, so that the air taxi is only envisaged as a last option’.
The Commission refers the Honourable Member to the respective websites of each Member of the Commission[2] where, as of 2018, and in line with Article 6(2) of the Commission Decision C/2018/0700, all missions and their purposes have been published.
In addition to this information, the Commission is sending directly to the Honourable Member and to the European Parliament's Secretariat a table containing the information requested. Concerning data related to the name of passengers other than Members of the Commission, the Commission does not include the requested personal data in the present reply, with a view to the data protection requirements laid down in Regulation (EU) 2018/1725[3].
See annex : Annex
- [1] Commission Decision C(2018) 700 final, of 31 January 2018, on a Code of Conduct for the Members of the European Commission. See: https://ec.europa.eu/info/sites/default/files/code-of-conduct-for-commissioners-2018_en_0.pdf
- [2] https://ec.europa.eu/info/information-commissioners-missions_en
- [3] Regulation (EU) 2018/1725 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2018 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data by the Union institutions, bodies, offices and agencies and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Regulation (EC) No 45/2001 and Decision No 1247/2002/EC, OJ L 295, 21.11.2018, p. 39.