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May 19, 2006 (newstodate): The transport ministers of EU and eight Southeast European partners as well as Iceland and Norway have reached a political agreement to create a European Common Aviation Area.
The eight Southeast European partners are Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro, and the United Nations Mission in Kosovo.
The Agreement provides for new market opportunities for the European aviation industry by creating a single market for aviation consisting of 35 countries and more than 500 million people.
The ECAA Agreement is the first comprehensive aviation agreement accomplished since the adoption by the Council, in June 2005, of a roadmap aiming to develop the Union's external aviation policy.
One fundamental aim of this policy is to create a wider Common Aviation Area with neighbouring countries by 2010, and a Euro-Mediterranean aviation agreement with Morocco was already signed in December last year.
The agreement is expected to be signed at the next Transport Council on June 8.
The eight Southeast European partners are Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro, and the United Nations Mission in Kosovo.
The Agreement provides for new market opportunities for the European aviation industry by creating a single market for aviation consisting of 35 countries and more than 500 million people.
The ECAA Agreement is the first comprehensive aviation agreement accomplished since the adoption by the Council, in June 2005, of a roadmap aiming to develop the Union's external aviation policy.
One fundamental aim of this policy is to create a wider Common Aviation Area with neighbouring countries by 2010, and a Euro-Mediterranean aviation agreement with Morocco was already signed in December last year.
The agreement is expected to be signed at the next Transport Council on June 8.