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European civil aviation problems

Recommendation 492 (1967)

Author(s):
Parliamentary Assembly
Origin
Assembly Debate on 27th April 1967 (6th Sitting) (see Doc. 2217, report of the Economic Committee). Text adopted by the Assembly on 27th April 1967 (6th Sitting).

The Assembly,

1. Having considered the reply of the European Civil Aviation Conference Doc. 2146) to the Assembly's report on "certain financial and economic aspects of air transport operations" (Doc. 1734) ;
2. Believing that the fruitful co-operation in European air transport matters which has been established amongst European States within the framework of ECAC should be further pursued and strengthened in the light of rapidly changing technological and economic factors ;
3. Having regard to the forthcoming 6th Session of ECAC,
4. Recommends to the Committee of Ministers :
4.1 that the Draft ECAC Protocol extending common recognition of air-worthiness certificates so far as the export and import of aircraft spare parts and engines are concerned should be implemented as soon as possible ;
4.2 that, having regard to the certainty that airport facilities in Europe will need to be substantially developed in coming years, ECAC should carefully examine the possibilities of making a study of airport accounting and costing systems with a view to obtaining on a comparable basis within a European framework information on investments in, and operating costs of, airports, and on how those costs are divided between the air traveller and the public authorities concerned ;
4.3 that further consideration should be given in ECAC to the possibility of devising machinery which would facilitate regular contacts at the highest level between Members of ECAC and Members of the European Airlines Research Bureau for an exchange of views on problems of common interest ;
4.4 that, having regard to the fact that a recent agreement between International Air Transport Association (IATA) carriers in response to a US Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) initiative has effectively modified in an upward sense the limits of compensation in respect of death or injury to an air passenger laid down in the Warsaw Convention of 1929 on Air Navigation and in the Hague Protocol of 1955 to that Convention in so far as flights to and from the USA are concerned, ECAC should examine what further action in this field if any is called for in respect of intra-European flights.