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Dec 23, 2005 (newstodate): EU is working hard towards realising its open skies policy, making Europe's entire airspace one single commercial marketplace and a judicial entity.
The recent agreements with Albania, Macedonia, Bosnia, Croatia, Romania, Serbia-Montenegro, the UN Mission in Kosovo UNMIK, Norway and Iceland, to be signed by the EU transport ministers in the first half of 2006 marks a significant step towards this goal.
These "horisontal deals" will be followed by similar agreements with China and Russia, and will remove the nationality clauses contained in bilateral agreements between member states and third countries.
Twenty horizontal agreements have been initialled to date, which means that more than 305 bilateral air service agreements have been brought into legal conformity.
Two of these deals, the agreements with Chile and Ukraine, have already been formally signed by the EU transport ministers.
The agremeent with Russia still hinges on among other things the issue of Siberian overlight rights and, not least, abolition of the exhorbitant Russian fees that have so far kept traffic on the recently opened Actica lanes at a low minimum.
The recent agreements with Albania, Macedonia, Bosnia, Croatia, Romania, Serbia-Montenegro, the UN Mission in Kosovo UNMIK, Norway and Iceland, to be signed by the EU transport ministers in the first half of 2006 marks a significant step towards this goal.
These "horisontal deals" will be followed by similar agreements with China and Russia, and will remove the nationality clauses contained in bilateral agreements between member states and third countries.
Twenty horizontal agreements have been initialled to date, which means that more than 305 bilateral air service agreements have been brought into legal conformity.
Two of these deals, the agreements with Chile and Ukraine, have already been formally signed by the EU transport ministers.
The agremeent with Russia still hinges on among other things the issue of Siberian overlight rights and, not least, abolition of the exhorbitant Russian fees that have so far kept traffic on the recently opened Actica lanes at a low minimum.