Air transport safety, civil aviation: prevention of accidents, collect and dissemination of information

The committee adopted the report by Gerard COLLINS (UEN, IRL) welcoming the proposal subject to a number of amendments (codecision procedure, 1st reading). These aimed to ensure that: - once passed on to interested parties, information did not go any further; - names and addresses of undertakings would never be recorded on the database (the proposal stipulated only that names and addresses of individual persons should not be recorded); - in situations where the reported occurrence was the result of an act of gross negligence, Member States would be allowed to bring proceedings; - the Commission would report regularly to Parliament and Council on the implementation of the directive.�