Single European Sky: provision of air navigation services

The European Parliament adopted a resolution based on the report by Marieke SANDERS-TEN HOLTE (ELDR, NL) on air navigation services. As well as the mutual recognition of licences of air traffic controllers, Parliament stated that there should be the development of recruitment programmes. The Commission should monitor the development of recruitment programmes by the Member States to determine if Community support were needed. Parliament went on to state that national supervisory authorities and the air navigation service providers should be separated from one another to the extent necessary to ensure that the national supervisory authorities operate as fully independent agencies in the discharge of their actions. On the question of charges, Parliament felt that the charging scheme must be consistent with the route charging system laid down in multilateral agreements and the Europol Convention.�