Open Skies - Fewer Planes?: Public policy and corporate strategy in EU-US aviation relations. European Policy Papers #3

Staniland, Martin (1996) Open Skies - Fewer Planes?: Public policy and corporate strategy in EU-US aviation relations. European Policy Papers #3. [Policy Paper]

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Abstract

[Introduction]. The decision of the European Union's (EU) transport ministers to authorize the Commission to begin negotiation of a multilateral aviation agreement with the United States was long in coming and in the process was overtaken by developments in the airline industry itself. The EU has been fighting within itself since 1991 about whether the Commission should exercise authority that it claims under Article 113 of the EC Treaty to negotiate with "third countries" over international air services. In exercising such authority, the Commission would supplant national negotiators who are responsible for maintaining and modifying bilateral Air Service Agreements (ASAs) and would become the sole negotiator for all Member States.

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