Traduction de «auto-assistance en escale » (Français → Anglais) :

Without prejudice to the application of this Regulation, and subject to the other provisions of Union law, Member States may take the necessary measures to ensure protection of rights of workers shall ensure legally that the staff of undertakings providing third party groundhandling or self-handling services enjoy an adequate level of social security, as well as decent working conditions, also in the case of subcontracting and in the context of service contracts.

Ensuring full opening of the self-handling market for airlines and increase in the minimum number of service providers (in restricted services) from two to three at large airports: this will ensure that airlines have an increased choice of groundhandling solutions at EU airports.

Fees charged for access to the airport installations. In setting the fee charged to selfhandlers and suppliers of groundhandling services for access to the installations, the airport managing body that is itself providing groundhanding services may take into account expenditure resulting from non-transferred employees.

Protection of the rights of workers. When groundhandling operators are selected through a tender procedure, German legislation allows airport managing bodies to require as a standard condition that suppliers of groundhandling services and selfhandlers take over staff from the airport managing body corresponding to the services to be provided by these operators.

The first decision relates to complaints brought (under Article 86 of the Treaty) by Air France, KLM and British Airways that Frankfurt airport was abusing its dominant position by not granting to airlines the right to provide groundhandling services themselves (selfhandling) nor giving access to other companies to provide such services (third party handling) The term groundhandling includes baggage handling, runway operations, refuelling, the handling of freight and postal service, cleaning, provision of catering services etc.

The proposal adopted by the Commission is intended: - to define Community rules which will allow effective application of the general principles laid down in the Treaty to the specific ground handling market; - to introduce detailed rules to accompany the principles of liberalization of air transport and of the ancillary activities, by organizing access to the various categories of handling service and granting airlines the right to provide their own services (self-handling); - to make costs more transparent by keeping the accounts and funding for handling activities separate and prohibiting any funding which could distort competition.