1 Amendments of Jörg LEICHTFRIED related to 2011/0391(COD)
Amendment 192 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 8
Article 9 – paragraph 8
8. The coordinator shall also take into account additional guidelines established by the air transport industry Union -wide or world-wide as well as local guidelines proposed by the coordination committee and approved by the Member State or any other competent body responsible for the airport in question, provided that such guidelines do not affect the independent status of the coordinator, comply with Union law, aim at improving the efficient use of airport capacity and have been notified in advance to and pre-approved by the Commission. The local guidelines may only concern the monitoring of the use of slots allocated or the amendment of the definition of a series of slots to reduce its length below 10 slots for the winter scheduling period or below 15 slots for the summer scheduling period, but under no circumstances below 5 slots. The reduction of the length of. Local Rules concern the allocation and monitoring of slots. These can be applied where performance or throughput improvements can be delivered through locally applied rules, the series of slots applies only at airports where demand for air services is highly seasonable must be transparent and non- discriminatory.