Air transport: ratification by the Community of the Protocol on the accession to the revised Eurocontrol Convention

PURPOSE : to conclude the Protocol on the European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation.

LEGISLATIVE ACT : Council Decision 2004/636/EC on the conclusion by the European Community of the Protocol on the accession of the European Community to the European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation.

CONTENT : The congestion of airspace and the forthcoming implementation of the Single European Sky call for urgent measures to be undertaken at Community level and within the framework of the European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation (Eurocontrol). The Community has exclusive competence or competence shared with its Member States in certain areas covered by the Eurocontrol International convention relating to Cooperation for the Safety of Air Navigation of 13 December 1960. The Community and the Member States which are members of Eurocontrol have simultaneously to ratify the Protocol and the revised Convention in order to ensure the full, uniform application of the provisions within the Community.

This Decision approves the Protocol on the accession of the European Community to the European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation.