Civil aviation: repealing an obsolete directive

The Committee on Transport and Tourism adopted the report by Karima DELLI (Greens/EFA, FR) on the proposal for a decision of the European Parliament and of the Council repealing Council Directive 89/629/EEC.

The committee recommended that the European Parliament adopt its position at first reading, taking over the Commission proposal.

This proposal aims at repealing Council Directive 89/629/EEC.

Council Directive 89/629/EEC allowed certain noisy planes to continue their operations, despite exceeding the noise norms at the time, on the condition that they had been registered by a Member State prior to the Directive’s entry into force. At the same time, the Directive disallowed new registrations of this kind of aircraft.

In 2006, the European Parliament and the Council adopted Directive 2006/93/EC, which introduced a complete phase - out for all aircraft not meeting the relevant noise emission standards, including those previously covered by Directive 89/629/EEC. The current proposal aims at repealing the Council Directive 89/629, which has become obsolete.