Air transport: allocation of slots at Community airports (amend. Regulation (EEC) No 95/93)

PURPOSE : to amend Regulation 95/93/EEC of 18 January 1993 on the common rules for the allocation of slots at Community airports. CONTENT : the terrorist attacks of 11 September in the United States and the political development that followed those events seriously affected the air transport operations of air carriers and resulted in a significant drop in demand during the remainder of the summmer 2001 and winter 2001/02 scheduling season. In order to make sure that the non-utilisation od slots allocated for those seasons does not cause operators to lose their entitlement to those slots, the Commission is proposing to amend the 1995 Council Regulation (Article 10(3)). It is proposed that co-ordinators shall accept that air carriers are entitled to the same series of slots during summer scheduling season 2002 and winter scheduling season 2002-2003 as they were entitled during the summer scheduling season 2001 and the winter scheduling season 2001-2002 respectively.�