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Feb 01, 2012 (newstodate): Copenhagen Airport may have opened the champagne bottles too early for celebrating its victory over the project to establish a dedicated low-cost terminal within the airport area.
On January 25, 2012, the Danish Competition Authority ruled that it could not close the issue as the regulatory authority Trafikstyrelsen had informed it that existing Danish law does not allow independent parties to operate own terminals at Copenhagen Airport.
-We are however, confident that the case is not closed by this, says Mogens Kornbo, a leading partner in the project and formerly with Copenhagen Airports.
-In an earlier paper, Trafikstyrelsen has stated that are no objective factors to deny our project rights to acquire land at the airport to construct our planned low-cost terminal. Making a 180-degrees turn the same authority now comes to the exact opposite conclusion.
-If there are discrepancies between the Danish law and EU regulations on competition, the EU regulations hold the upper hand, and our case must eventually be reconsidered in this light, says Mr Kornbo.
The project group behind the planned Terminal A is meeting today with the Danish minister of transportation, who was early out already on January 25, 2012, in claiming that he could not see any "immediate reason" for reevaluating Danish aviation law in connection with Trafikstyrelsen's ruling.
Plans are to build the new low-cost terminal on the airport's eastern outskirts, separate from the airport's other infrastructure, and adjacent to the airport's cargo area.
On January 25, 2012, the Danish Competition Authority ruled that it could not close the issue as the regulatory authority Trafikstyrelsen had informed it that existing Danish law does not allow independent parties to operate own terminals at Copenhagen Airport.
-We are however, confident that the case is not closed by this, says Mogens Kornbo, a leading partner in the project and formerly with Copenhagen Airports.
-In an earlier paper, Trafikstyrelsen has stated that are no objective factors to deny our project rights to acquire land at the airport to construct our planned low-cost terminal. Making a 180-degrees turn the same authority now comes to the exact opposite conclusion.
-If there are discrepancies between the Danish law and EU regulations on competition, the EU regulations hold the upper hand, and our case must eventually be reconsidered in this light, says Mr Kornbo.
The project group behind the planned Terminal A is meeting today with the Danish minister of transportation, who was early out already on January 25, 2012, in claiming that he could not see any "immediate reason" for reevaluating Danish aviation law in connection with Trafikstyrelsen's ruling.
Plans are to build the new low-cost terminal on the airport's eastern outskirts, separate from the airport's other infrastructure, and adjacent to the airport's cargo area.