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TABLE OF ANNEXES



Annex I: Glossary 4

Annex II: Acronyms 6

Annex III: Source and use of data in the IA 8

1.Sources of data used 8

1.1.List of Studies and other sources of information: 8

1.2.Consultation material 9

2.Research and use of data in the impact assessment 9

3.Critical analysis of the data 11

Annex IV: Overview of airports covered by the Directive per Member State in 2009 12

Annex V: Details about the consultation of the groundhandling working group of the Sectoral Social dialogue committee (on civil aviation) and the internet-based consultation on the possible revision of the Directive 96/67 16

1.Consultation of the Groundhandling working group of the Sectoral social dialogue committee (on Civil Aviation) 16

2.Internet-based consultation about the possible revision of the groundhandling directive 17

Annex VI: Map of groundhandling market opening systems in the Member States 60

Annex VII: Presentation of a sample of groundhandling companies providing services at EU airports 61

Annex VIII: Infringement proceedings 62

Annex IX: General information about the EU groundhandling market and number of groundhandling providers and self-handling airlines for restricted services at the 60 EU busiest airports 65

1.General information about the EU groundhandling market: 65

2.Number of groundhandling suppliers and self-handling airlines for potentially restricted services at the 60 busiest airports 66

Annex X: Approval systems in the EU-27 Member States 69

Annex XI: Extract of the EASA annual safety review 2009, p18-19 84

Annex XII: Centralised infrastructures at EU airports 90

Annex XIII: Evolution in the number of groundhandling companies for "restricted services" 1996-2007 92

Annex XIV: Groundhandling and working conditions 93

Annex XV: Subcontracting at EU-airports 96

Annex XVI: Regulation of the groundhandling market elsewhere in the world 98

1.Australia 98

2.USA 102

3.India 103

Annex XVII: ISAGO: presentation of the ISAGO initiative 105

Annex XVIII: Screening of policy measures and pre-selection 107

1.Approach to policy measures 107

1.1.List of policy measures identified 107

2.Methodology adopted for the screening process 109

2.1.Content of the screening process 109

2.2.Selection of policy measures 111

3.Assessment of the policy measures 111

3.1.Performance of the policy measures against a number of criteria 111

3.2.Full assessment 113

4.Detailed analysis of discarded options enjoying a significant support amongst some stakeholders groups 120

Annex XIX: Methodology used for the assessment and comparison of options against a pool of criteria 122

Annex XX: Considerations about space and congestion 124

Annex XXI: Administrative costs 130

1.Step for the calculation of administrative costs 130

2.General assumptions for administrative cost calculation 131

3.Comparison of policy measures concerning approval systems 131

3.1.Presentation of the baseline scenario: 132

3.2.Comparison of administrative costs for the baseline and policy measures 138

4.Comparison of policy measures concerning reporting obligation put on groundhandlers about their performance 148



Annex I: Glossary

Term

Explanation

"restricted services"

Also called "restricted services", or even sometimes (unduly) "airside services", these groundhandling services are:

- baggage handling,

- ramp handling,

- fuel and oil handling,

- freight and mail handling as regards the physical handling of freight and mail, whether incoming, outgoing or being transferred, between the air terminal and the aircraft.


Airport user

Also called "airline" or "air carrier" : "Any natural or legal person responsible for the carriage of passengers, mail and/or freight by air from, or to the airport in question." : airlines serving the airport

Airport Users Committee

At each airport, a committee of representatives of airport users

Centralised infrastructures (CI)

Infrastructures at the airport used for the supply of groundhandling services whose complexity, cost or environmental impact does not allow of division or duplication, such as baggage sorting, de-icing, water purification and fuel-distribution systems. It is possible to make it compulsory for groundhandling services providers to use these infrastructures.

Freight integrators

A natural or legal person whose sole activity is to provide services consisting of door-to-door transport for documents, parcels and freight for urgent delivery and where the air carriage, sorting and delivery of the documents and parcels form an integral part of that service. Examples of integrators are DHL, Fedex, UPS, etc.

Groundhandling services

The services provided to airport users at airports as described in the Annex of the Directive 96/67 ; the 11 groundhandling services categories which are :

1. Ground administration and supervision comprise: 1.1. representation and liaison services with local authorities or any other entity, disbursements on behalf of the airport user and provision of office space for its representatives; 1.2. load control, messaging and telecommunications; 1.3. handling, storage and administration of unit load devices; 1.4. any other supervision services before, during or after the flight and any other administrative service requested by the airport user.

2. Passenger handling comprises any kind of assistance to arriving, departing, transfer or transit passengers, including checking tickets and travel documents, registering baggage and carrying it to the sorting area.

3. Baggage handling comprises handling baggage in the sorting area, sorting it, preparing it for departure, loading it on to and unloading it from the devices designed to move it from the aircraft to the sorting area and vice versa, as well as transporting baggage from the sorting area to the reclaim area.

4. Freight and mail handling comprises: 4.1. for freight: physical handling of export, transfer and import freight, handling of related documents, customs procedures and implementation of any security procedure agreed between the parties or required by the circumstances; 4.2. for mail: physical handling of incoming and outgoing mail, handling of related documents and implementation of any security procedure agreed between the parties or required by the circumstances.

5. Ramp handling comprises: 5.1. marshalling the aircraft on the ground at arrival and departure ; 5.2. assistance to aircraft packing and provision of suitable devices ; 5.3. communication between the aircraft and the air-side supplier of services ; 5.4. the loading and unloading of the aircraft, including the provision and operation of suitable means, as well as the transport of crew and passengers between the aircraft and the terminal, and baggage transport between the aircraft and the terminal; 5.5. the provision and operation of appropriate units for engine starting; 5.6. the moving of the aircraft at arrival and departure, as well as the provision and operation of suitable devices; 5.7. the transport, loading on to and unloading from the aircraft of food and beverages.

6. Aircraft services comprise: 6.1. the external and internal cleaning of the aircraft, and the toilet and water services; 6.2. the cooling and heating of the cabin, the removal of snow and ice, the de-icing of the aircraft; 6.3. the rearrangement of the cabin with suitable cabin equipment, the storage of this equipment.

7. Fuel and oil handling comprises: 7.1. the organization and execution of fuelling and defuelling operations, including the storage of fuel and the control of the quality and quantity of fuel deliveries; 7.2. the replenishing of oil and other fluids.

8. Aircraft maintenance comprises: 8.1. routine services performed before flight; 8.2. non-routine services requested by the airport user; 8.3. the provision and administration of spare parts and suitable equipment; 8.4. the request for or reservation of a suitable parking and/or hangar space.

9. Flight operations and crew administration comprise: 9.1. preparation of the flight at the departure airport or at any other point; 9.2. in-flight assistance, including re-dispatching if needed; 9.3. post-flight activities; 9.4. crew administration.

10. Surface transport comprises: 10.1. the organization and execution of crew, passenger, baggage, freight and mail transport between different terminals of the same airport, but excluding the same transport between the aircraft and any other point within the perimeter of the same airport; 10.2. any special transport requested by the airport user.

11. Catering services comprise: 11.1. liaison with suppliers and administrative management; 11.2. storage of food and beverages and of the equipment needed for their preparation; 11.3. cleaning of this equipment;11.4. preparation and delivery of equipment as well as of bar and food supplies



Managing body of the airport

Also called "airport operator" or "airport authority": entity in charge of providing airport infrastructures and associated services (comprising in general construction and maintenance of airport installations, safety services such as rescue and fire fighting or bird strikes prevention services, security at the airport, parking for passengers vehicles etc.)

Self-handling

A situation in which an airport user directly provides for himself one or more categories of groundhandling services and concludes no contract of any description with a third party for the provision of such services; for the purposes of this definition, among themselves airport users shall not be deemed to be third parties where:

- one holds a majority holding in the other; or - a single body has a majority holding in each.



Third-party handling

Handling services provided by a provider on the competitive market (contrary to self-handling). The provider can be either an airport (or an airport's subsidiary) an airline or an independent handler.

Annex II: Acronyms

Acronym

Description

AB

Administrative burden

ACI

Airport Council International (association of airports)

ADV

Association of Deutsch airports

AEA

Association of European Airlines

ARC

Airport Research Center (consultant in charge of the 2009 study, see Annex III)

AUC

Airport User Committee (committee comprising airlines serving the considered airport)

CDG

Charles de Gaulle (Paris airport)

CI(s)

Centralised infrastructure(s)

COMP

European's Commission Directorate General for Competition

CRS

Computer Reservation System

EASA

European Aviation Safety Agency

ECAA

European Common Aviation Area

ECFIN

European's Commission Directorate General for Economic and Financial Affairs

EEA

European Economic Area

EMPL

European's Commission Directorate General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion

ENTR

European's Commission Directorate General for Enterprise and Industry

ENV

European's Commission Directorate General for the Environment

EP

European Parliament

ETF

European Transport Workers' Federation

FTA(s)

Free Trade Agreement(s)

GATS

General Agreement on Trade in Services

GSE

Ground Support Equipment (equipment used by groundhandling companies such as baggage loaders, de-icing vehicles, pallets, luggage trailers, tow bars and tractors etc.)

IAHA

International Aviation Handlers' Association (association of independent handlers)

IASG

Impact assessment steering group

IATA

International Air Transport Association

ICAO

International Civil Aviation Organisation

IPM

Interactive Policy Making (computer tool used for Internet consultations by the European Commission)

ISAGO

IATA Safety Audit for Ground Operations

MARKT

European's Commission Directorate General for Internal Market and Services

MOVE

European's Commission Directorate General for Mobility and Transport

NA

Not Available (acronym used in tables)

NACE

Ou code NACE: "Nomenclature des Activités économiques dans la Communauté Européenne"

NMS

(Also called "EU12") New Member States (the 12 EU Member States that joined the EU from 2004)

OJEU

Official Journal of the European Union

PP

Policy Package

SDG

Steer Davies and Gleave (consultant in charge of the public consultation and of the 2010 study, see Annex III)

SG

Secretariat General (of the European Commission)

SH&E

Simat Helliesen & Eichner, Inc (consultant in charge of the 2002 study, see Annex III)

SMEs

Small and Medium Enterprises

TRADE

European's Commission Directorate General for Trade

TREN

European's Commission Directorate General for Transport and Energy (split in February 2010 to become DG MOVE and DG ENER)

WTO

World Trade Organisation

Annex III: Source and use of data in the IA


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