Regulation (EC) No 894/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 May 2002 amending Council Regulation (EEC) No 95/93 on common rules for the allocation of slots at Community airports
Date: 2002-05-27
Institutions: Council of the European Union, European Parliament
Subjects: air transport, airport, common transport policy, competition, transport capacity, transport planning

31.5.2002

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

L 142/3

REGULATION (EC) No 894/2002 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL

of 27 May 2002

amending Council Regulation (EEC) No 95/93 on common rules for the allocation of slots at
Community airports

THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL OF THE
EUROPEAN UNION,

(3)

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community, and in particular Article 80(2) thereof,

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission (1),

Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social
Committee (2),

Following consultation of the Committee of the Regions,

Acting in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article
251 of the Treaty (3),

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

The terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 in the
that
United States and the political developments
followed those events seriously affected the air transport
operations of air carriers and resulted in a significant
drop in demand during the remainder of the summer
2001 and winter 2001/2002 scheduling seasons.

In order to make sure that the non-utilisation of slots
allocated for those seasons does not cause operators to
lose their entitlement to those slots, it appears necessary
to provide clearly and unambiguously that those sched-
uling seasons were adversely affected by the terrorist
attacks of 11 September 2001.

Council Regulation (EEC) No 95/93 of 18 January 1993
on common rules
slots at
Community airports (4) should therefore be accordingly
amended,

the allocation of

for

HAVE ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The following Article shall be inserted in Council Regulation
(EEC) No 95/93:

‘Article 10a

The events of 11 September 2001

For the purposes of Article 10(3), coordinators shall accept
that air carriers are entitled to the same series of slots
during summer scheduling season 2002 and winter sched-
uling season 2002/2003 as had been allocated to them on
the date of 11 September 2001 for the summer scheduling
season 2001 and the winter scheduling season 2001/2002
respectively.’

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following that
of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communi-
ties.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 27 May 2002.

For the European Parliament

The President

P. COX

For the Council

The President

M. ARIAS CAÑETE

(1) OJ C 103 E, 30.4.2002, p. 350.
(2) Opinion delivered on 20 March 2002 (not yet published in the

Official Journal).

(3) Opinion of the European Parliament of 6 February 2002 (not yet
Journal), Council Common Position of
Journal) and

published in the Official
25 March 2002 (not yet published in the Official
Decision of the European Parliament of 15 May 2002.

(4) OJ L 14, 22.1.1993, p. 1.