WRITTEN QUESTION No. 3522/98 by Amedeo AMADEO Denied- boarding compensation system
C 289/56 Official Journal of the European Communities EN 11. 10. 1999 (1999/C 289/074) WRITTEN QUESTION E-3522/98 by Amedeo Amadeo (NI) to the Commission (25 November 1998) Subject: Denied-boarding compensation system With reference to the proposal for a Council Regulation (EC) 295/91 establishing common rules for a denied- boarding compensation system in scheduled air transport (COM(98) 0041 final ’ 98/022 SYN) (1), can the Commission submit every three years a report on the implementation of the regulation based on reports drawn up by the Member States, ensuring in addition that a comprehensive assessment of the costs and benefits of the regulation is carried out by consulting interested parties before the regulation is reviewed and at the same time making a comparative analysis of the applicable rules governing compensation for all types of denied boarding in the United States and the European Union? (1) OJ C 120, 18. 4. 1998, p. 18. Answer given by Mr Kinnock on behalf of the Commission (29 January 1999) The Commission agrees that statistical reports on cases of denied-boarding compensation are important in order to have reliable information on the problems experienced by passengers. In its amended proposal for a Council regulation amending Council Regulation (EEC) 295/91 providing for common rules for a denied-boarding compensation system in air transport (1), the Commission therefore agreed to the suggestions previously made by the Parliament on this point. The Commission also agrees that cost/benefit assessments, as well consultations with interested parties and comparison with similar legislation in other countries are important for the evaluation of the need for any amending legislation in the future. The Commission will collect such information whenever appropriate. (1) OJ C 351, 18. 11. 1998. (1999/C 289/075) WRITTEN QUESTION E-3536/98 by Richard Corbett (PSE) to the Commission (25 November 1998) Subject: Commission assessment of appropriate legal base for its proposals Since the entry into force of the Single European Act, on how many occasions has the Commission’s legal service disagreed with the legal base proposed by the directorate-general responsible for a proposal? How are such differences of views solved within the Commission? On how many occasions has the College of Commissioners had to deliberate and adjudicate on a divergence of opinion as to the appropriate legal base? Has the pattern changed over time? Answer given by Mr Santer on behalf of the Commission (14 January 1999) The Commission is not in a position to supply the information requested by the Honourable Member. To do so would be detrimental to the public interest and, more particularly, as the President of the Court of First Instance stressed in his Order of 3 March 1998 (1), to the stability of the Community legal order and the proper functioning of the institutions, since the disclosure of the Legal Service’s opinions, which form part of