Imposition of a public service obligation on scheduled air services between Paris (Orly) and Béziers (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2002-04-19
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: France, air transport, airline, public service, transport capacity

19.4.2002

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

C 95/13

Imposition of a public service obligation on scheduled air services between Paris (Orly) and
Béziers

(2002/C 95/04)

(Text with EEA relevance)

1. Pursuant to Article 4(1)(a) of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2408/92 of 23 July 1992 on access for
Community air carriers to intra-Community air routes. France has decided to impose a public service
obligation on scheduled air services between Béziers and Paris (Orly).

2. The public service obligation is as follows:

Minimum frequency and capacity provided

Except on public holidays, the services must provide a minimum capacity of:

— 280 seats per day on at least two round trips, Mondays to Fridays inclusive, all year round,

— 200 seats per day on at least two round trips on Sundays all year round,

— 100 seats per day on Saturdays all year round.

On public holidays, the services must provide a minimum capacity of 100 seats per day.

Timetables

From Monday to Friday, timetables must be such as to enable passengers to make the round trip within
the day and to spend at least eight hours at their destination, whether Paris or Béziers.

At Paris (Orly) airport, the time-slots necessary, from Monday to Friday, to meet customer needs are as
follows:

arrival at Orly:

7.20-8.20

departure from Orly: 8.10-9.10;

arrival at Orly:

19.45-20.45

departure from Orly: 20.30-21.30.

Slots are currently reserved at Paris (Orly) airport from Monday to Friday for the scheduled Paris
(Orly)–Béziers service pursuant to Article 9 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 95/93 of 18 January
1993 on common rules for the allocation of slots at Community airports. Air carriers interested in
this route can obtain information about these slots from the Paris airports coordinator.

Flight bookings

Flights must be marketed by means of at least one computerised reservation system.

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19.4.2002

Continuity of service

Except in cases of force majeure, the number of flights cancelled for reasons directly attributable to the
carrier must not exceed 3 % of the number of flights scheduled in any year.

In accordance with Article 4(1)(c) of Regulation (EEC) No 2408/92, any carrier intending to operate this
service must undertake to do so for at least 12 consecutive months.

The carrier must give at least six months' notice before discontinuing these services.

Community carriers are hereby informed that operation of the air services without regard to the
abovementioned public service obligation may result in administrative and/or criminal penalties.

Notice regarding the request submitted by the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka in order
to benefit from the special incentive arrangements concerning labour rights

(2002/C 95/05)

The Commission has received a request from Sri Lanka under Article 15 of Council Regulation (EC) No
2501/2001 of 10 December 2001 applying a scheme of generalised tariff preferences for the period from
1 January 2002 to 31 December 2004 (1) to benefit from the special
incentive arrangements for the
protection of labour rights.

incentive arrangements offer additional tariff preferences to countries which effectively
These special
implement
the freedom of
association and the right to collective bargaining, non-discrimination in respect of employment and
occupation, and the effective abolition of child labour.

the standards laid down by ILO conventions concerning forced labour,

The terms and conditions for requests for the special incentive arrangements are laid down in Title III of
Regulation (EC) No 2501/2001.

According to Article 15(2) of that Regulation the request shall provide comprehensive information
concerning:

— the national legislation referred to in Article 14(2), the measures taken to implement it and to monitor

its application,

— any sectors in which that legislation is not applied.

By letter of 17 January 2002, Sri Lanka provided the Commission information on the above.

Any observation concerning this request may be sent by any interested natural or legal person, within two
months as of the date of publication of this notice, to:

European Commission
Directorate-General for Trade
Unit D.1
Office CHAR 9/32
B-1049 Brussels
Fax (32-2) 299 09 00.

(1) OJ L 346, 31.12.2001, p. 1.