1999/326/EC: Commission Decision of 27 April 1999 on the application of Article 9 of Council Directive 96/67/EC to Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport (notified under document number C(1999) 1067) (Only the French text is authentic) (Text with EEA relevance)

• CELEX: Directive 96/67/EC
• Articles: 3

Article 1

The exemption decision granted to Paris-Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport, as notified to the Commission on 8 and 27 January 1999, is approved subject to the following amendments being made by the French Republic:

- as regards the provision of air-side services to third parties concerning marshalling (point 5.1 of the Annex), parking (point 5.2 of the Annex), loading and unloading (part of point 5.4 of the Annex), engine starting (point 5.5 of the Annex) and moving of the aircraft (point 5.6 of the Annex) at terminal T 9, the decision taken on the basis of Article 9 (1) (b) must permit the opening-up of the market to a second provider of services to third parties,

- as regards the provision of services to third parties and self-handling in. passenger transport at CDG 2, the decision taken on the basis of Article 9(1)(b) and (d) shall be revoked for halls A, B, D and F.

Article 2

The French Republic shall notify the Commission, before it enters into force, of the exemption decision as amended in accordance with Article 1.

Article 3

This Decision is addressed to the French Republic.

Done at Brussels, 27 April 1999.

For the Commission

Neil KINNOCK

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 272, 25.10.1996, p. 36.

(2) OJ C 64, 6.3.1999.

(3) Decree No 98-7 of 5 January 1998 amending the Civil Aviation Code (Part II) relating to groundhandling services in airports, Official Gazette of the French Republic, 7.1.1998, p. 293.

(4) OJ L 14, 22.1.1993, p. 1.

(5) Decree of 22 December 1998 restricting access to the groundhandling market at the airport of Roissy-Charles de Gaulle, Official Gazette No 302, 30.12.1998, p. 19950.

(6) 1997.

(7) Taking a transport unit as a ratio of the floor coverage of the vehicles gives the following weighting scale:

conventional bus: 30 m2 = 1 TU, articulated bus: 63 m2 = 2,1 TU, aerobus: 77 m2 = 2,56 TU.

The parking area at CDG 1 amounts to 0 TU in that all the buses at CDG 1 and T 9 are parked at T 9; the parking area at CDG 2 amounts to 90,5 TU (2,56 x 15)

Apron area:

- CDG1: 376100 m2, CDG2: 674800 m2

- CDG2:

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CDG1:

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(8) Service road area:

- CDG1: 52000 m2, CDG2: 134000 m2,

- CDG2:

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(9) Commission Decisions 98/387/EC and 98/388/EC (OJ L 173, 18.6.1998, pp. 32 and 45).

(10) Judgments of 25 July 1991, Case C-288/89, Mediawet-Collectieve Antenne voorziening Gouda, [1991] ECR I-4007 and Case C-76/90, Sager v. Dennemeyer [1991] ECR I-4221.

(11) See in particular the judgment of 25 July 1991, Case C-288/89, Mediawet-Collectieve Antenne voorziening Gouda, [1991] ECR I-4007, grounds 10 to 16.

(12) Commission interpretative communication conecrning the fret movement of services across frontiers (OJ C 334, 9.12.1993, point III.2).

(13) Commission Decisions 98/387/EC and 98/388/EC (OJ L 173, 18.6.1998) concerning the airports of Frankfurt and Düsseldorf;

Commission Decisions 98/630/EC, 98/631/EC and 98/632/EC (OJ L 300, 11.11.1998, pp. 25, 33 and 41) concerning the airports of Cologne, Stuttgart and Hamburg.

(14) See judgments of 20 April 1998 in Joined Cases 80 and 81/77 [1978] ECR 927, p. 945, and of 25 June 1992 in Case C-116/91, British Gas [1992] ECR I-4071, ground 12.

(15) See Commission Decisions concerning the airports of Frankfurt, Stuttgart and Cologne/Bonn.

(16) See, in particular, the Decision concerning Stuttgart airport.