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Workshop on EU regulations concerning statistical returns in respect of the carriage of passengers, freight and mail by air. Belgrade, October - November 2012. “Sharing of experience of countries in the region about the application of the regulation”. Single Sky.
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Workshop on EU regulations concerning statistical returns in respect of the carriage of passengers, freight and mail by air Belgrade,October - November 2012
“Sharing of experience of countries in the region about the application of the regulation”
Single Sky • the bilateral agreements that are not in line with EU law, most importantly, the freedom of establishment which derives from the EU Treaties need to be amended to ensure legal certainty and to put all EU airlines on an equal footing for flights to countries outside the EU; • the EU is working to develop a Common Aviation Area with neighboring countries to the South, South-East and East of the EU; • the EU is negotiating comprehensive agreements to integrate the EU aviation market with those of its key international partners; • A horizontal agreement between Serbia and the EC was signed on 5 May 2006; • Serbia is a signatory to the European Common Aviation Area (ECAA) agreement.
Implementation of the regulation in the region • Regulation 437/2003 applies directly and in its entirety to all Member States; • Respect of legal obligations; • Burden of the implementation and regular data provision for the reporting countries; • Data collection, compilation and validation process; • Methodological guidance; • Data transmission and validation; • Improvements: • Short term developments; • Long term developments: • reduction on the data transmission period to five months after the end of the period of observation; • Extension of the geographical coverage.
Implementation of the regulation in the region – Bulgarian experience • obligations of the Republic of Bulgaria to provide statistical information on air transport; • Methodological requirements; • Ordinance 08-20 of 14/01/1999 RD on the collection of statistical information on civil aviation in Bulgaria; • Statistical studies in civil aviation; • Eurostat PHARE - "Improving the quality of statistics on the carriage of passengers, freight and mail by air - Statistics on air transport“; • national legislative and methodological organization for the entire statistical process.
Thank you for your kind attention ! George Popov Ministry of Transport, Information technology and communications Republic of Bulgaria G_popov@mtitc.government.bg