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

PURPOSE : to amend Council Regulation 95/93/EEC on common rules for the allocation of slots at Community airports. COMMUNITY MEASURE : Regulation 894/2002/EC of the European Parliament of the Council amending Council Regulation 95/93/EEC on common rules for the allocation of slots at Community airports. CONTENT : the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 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 summer 2001 and winter 2001/2002 scheduling seasons. In order to make sure that the non-utilisation of slots allocated for those seasons does not cause operators to lose their entitlement to those slots, it appears necessary to provide clearly and unambiguously that those scheduling seasons were adversely affected by the terrorist attacks of 11 September. Council Regulation 95/93/EEC of 18 January 1993 on common rules for the allocation of slots at Community airports should therefore be accordingly amended. This Regulation amending 95/93/EEC stipulates that coordinators 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 has been allocated to them on the date of 11 September 2001 for the summer scheduling season 2001 and winter scheduling season 2001/2002 respectively. ENTRY INTO FORCE : 1 June 2002.�