Air transport: allocation of slots at Community airports

The Committee on Transport and Tourism adopted the report drawn up by Paolo COSTA (ALDE, IT) amending, under the first reading of the codecision procedure, the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on amending Regulation (EEC) No 95/93 on common rules for the allocation of slots at Community airports.

MEPs are not prepared to accept a provision, which would allow the Commission to prolong the temporary measures by comitology to the following winter season. They suggest that the Commission may not decide but propose to renew all or part of these arrangements for the winter 2010/11 season, should the situation continue to deteriorate during the winter 2009/10 season. Such a proposal should be made only if it forms part of a proposal for a general revision of Regulation (EEC) No 95/93.