AIRPORTS (5886/07, 5887/07)
Letter from the Chairman to Gillian Merron
MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Transport, Department
for Transport
Sub-Committee B considered these documents,
and your Explanatory Memoranda, at its meeting on 5 March 2007.
We are in favour of action in the areas identified
by the Commission, but we share your concern that the draft Directive
"may not target regulation effectively at monopoly power",
but add an unnecessary additional layer of regulation to airports
where competition is already functioning well. We agree that the
proposed threshold is arbitrary, and would be grateful to you
if you could set out an alternative threshold which might better
reflect the market position of the airports. We would also like
to receive the results of the Government's consultation, when
they are available.
We will maintain scrutiny on the draft Directive.
We note your "initial concerns" over
the possible follow up actions to the Communication on airport
capacity. We will return to the issue when the expected detailed
proposals for action emerge from the Commission, but are content
to lift scrutiny on the Communication at this stage.
7 March 2007
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