Table of annexes annex I: Glossary 4
General information about the EU groundhandling market
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1.General information about the EU groundhandling market:It is difficult to estimate accurately the size and importance of groundhandling markets in the EU, due notably to: (i) the diversity of groundhandling services : the Directive 96/67/EC distinguishes 11 categories of services, each one including several activities; and (ii) the fact that the companies intervening in these markets can be airports, airlines or independent companies, that do not necessarily publish public separate data for their groundhandling activities or for each of their groundhandling activities. However, Commission and stakeholders' estimations assess the revenues of groundhandling in Europe to lie between 6 and 10 billions euros, and the employment in the groundhandling sector to be at the minimum 60,00010. Global groundhandling market value was assessed to be around 31 billions euros in 2007 (KPMG, 200811) but this figure seems underestimated. The market is still very fragmented with over 400 operators worldwide and a combined market share of 20% for the top 4 handlers (according to Swissport, 200812): it has not witnessed the same level of regroupings than other aviation sectors have experienced such as the duty-free provider industry. However, this assessment is more or less verified depending on the considered groundhandling category13. The fragmentation of the global market can be related to the variability of systems worldwide for regulating the groundhandling markets. If in Australia the market is fully open, this is not the case in most of the countries in the world: in India for instance, the recent groundhandling regulation restricted the access to the main airports due to security considerations, while in the USA, the groundhandling providers are actually under close monitoring by the airport (see details in Annex XVI). As regards GATS (General Agreement on Trade and Services), it does not apply, as least operationally, to groundhandling services14; groundhandling services conditions are at the moment included in bilateral air service agreements" (ASAs) and can be the part of Free-Trade Agreements (FTAs) with third countries (for the moment, the EU-CARIFORUM agreement and the EU-Korea FTA include commitments on groundhandling). The development of a dynamic and more competitive European groundhandling market in recent years also created new opportunities for related markets such as GSEs (Ground Support Equipments) leasing / sales companies. 2.Number of groundhandling suppliers and self-handling airlines for potentially restricted services at the 60 busiest airports
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