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Oct 29, 2007 (newstodate): EU and Russia will meet on November 16-17 in Moscow for another Aviation Summit.
In the focus, as earlier, is the protocol reached at last year's summit on the issue of EU carriers' air traffic payments on the Trans-Siberan routes.
In 2006 European airlines paid 225 mio euro to Russia for en-route navigation charges.
On March 22, 2007, the Council of EU Transport Ministers gave its unanimous approval to the "Agreed Principles" on Siberian overflights, negotiated by Vice-President Barrot and the Russian Transport Minister Levitin on November 24, 2006 in the margins of the EU-Russia summit.
The "Agreed Principles" provide for the abolition of payments for overflights for EC carriers not later than December 31, 2013, and ensures that newly operated overflights by EC carriers in the transition period until 2013 will be free of payments.
The protocol, however, is still not signed by the parties.
In the focus, as earlier, is the protocol reached at last year's summit on the issue of EU carriers' air traffic payments on the Trans-Siberan routes.
In 2006 European airlines paid 225 mio euro to Russia for en-route navigation charges.
On March 22, 2007, the Council of EU Transport Ministers gave its unanimous approval to the "Agreed Principles" on Siberian overflights, negotiated by Vice-President Barrot and the Russian Transport Minister Levitin on November 24, 2006 in the margins of the EU-Russia summit.
The "Agreed Principles" provide for the abolition of payments for overflights for EC carriers not later than December 31, 2013, and ensures that newly operated overflights by EC carriers in the transition period until 2013 will be free of payments.
The protocol, however, is still not signed by the parties.