EUROPA

Summaries of EU legislation

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Air transport

Among the different modes of transport, air transport has experienced the fastest growth. However, it must overcome the problem of its infrastructures becoming saturated. The European Union is therefore committed to modernising and adapting the infrastructure to increasing passenger flows, whilst also improving their rights and safety. In order to do this, the Union is working to implement the Single European Sky. Moreover, the introduction of optimum traffic management technologies will enable the challenges related to economic efficiency, safety and respect for the environment to be reconciled.

• INTERNAL MARKET
  • Common rules for the operation of air services
  • Air fares and air cargo rates (third phase)Archives
  • Licensing of air carriersArchives
  • Access for air carriers to intra-Community air routes (third phase)Archives
  • An action plan for airports in Europe: the “airport package”
  • Harmonisation of civil aviation requirements and procedures
  • Agenda for General and Business Aviation
  • Guidelines on State aid for developing regional airports
  • Statistical returns in respect of the carriage of passengers, freight and mail by air
  • Groundhandling at Community airports
  • Common charging scheme for air navigation services
• SUPPLY OF SERVICES AND LICENSES
  • A common framework for airport charges
  • Allocation of time slots
  • Insurance for air carriers and aircraft operators
  • Civil aviation licencesArchives
  • Traffic management: air traffic controller licences
• PASSENGERS' RIGHTS
  • Protection of air passengers
  • Rights of people with reduced mobility in air transport
  • Computerised reservation systems
  • Code of conduct for use of computerized reservation systemsArchives
  • Denied-boarding compensation system
  • Informing passengers of the carrier's identity and the blacklist of high-risk companies
• AIR SAFETY
  • Civil aviation and the European Aviation Safety Agency
  • Establishing an Aviation Safety Management System for Europe
  • Aviation safety: civil aviation accidents and incidents
  • Aviation safety: Occurrence reporting in civil aviation
  • Air safety: Third-country aircraft using Community airports
  • Air carrier liability in the event of accidents
• SINGLE SKY AND AIR TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT
  • Single European Sky II
  • Framework for creation of the Single European Sky (SES)
  • Traffic management: the creation of the single European sky
  • A joint undertaking to develop the new generation European air traffic management system (SESAR)
  • Air traffic management: Organisation and use of airspace in the Single European Sky
  • Air traffic flow management
  • Interoperability of the European air traffic management network
  • Provision of air navigation services in the single European sky
  • Classification of airspace for visual flights
• PROTECTING THE ENVIRONMENT
  • Clean Sky
  • Integrating the environment into aerial transport
  • Noise management at EU airports
  • Aviation and climate change
  • Environmental certification of aircraft, their parts and appliances
• INTERNATIONAL DIMENSION
  • Developing the agenda for the Community's external aviation policy
  • Air service agreements between Member States and third countries
  • Montreal Convention on air carrier liability
  • 'Open Skies' agreement between Europe and the United States
• AIR SECURITY
  • Civil aviation security: common rules
  • Use of security scanners at EU airports
  • Aviation security charges
  • Obligation of air carriers to communicate passenger data
  • A global approach to PNR data transfers