single European aviation market 01-01-2007

[world]

Would anyone out there know if the southeast European countries
of Croatia,Bosnia,Serbia,Macedonia(Skopje), Montenegro and Albania
will be included in the single European aviation market as from the 01st Jan 2007?
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My understanding is that there will be a single European aviation
passenger market embracing 35 countries,meaning all the European
Union countries with its new members Bulgaria and Romania also the above listed southeast non-E.U countries.
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Does a single European passenger market on the 1st of Jan 2007,
mean that any current and new operator may operate anywhere within the 35 European countries
without any restrictions from their local national carriers?
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Iam getting mixed messages in relation to Croatia?
There are unconfirmed suggestions that the new start up Croatian carriers who wish to engage in scheduled operations from 2007
will require permission from the mainstream airlines in Croatia before they are allowed to operate on the current established euro routes?
If Croatia is a signatory to the single European aviation market, then any new or current airline in Croatia,
should be able to operate without restrictions on any route from Croatia and anywhere else from the 01st jan 2007.
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Would anyone know more about the single Europe aviation market on the 1st Jan 2007
and are the terms and conditions the same in all the 35 European countries?

[ElcoB]

The Community has signed the European Common Aviation Area (ECAA) Agreement with eight South-East European partners (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro and the United Nations Mission in Kosovo) as well as Iceland and Norway.

This Agreement will integrate South-East Europe in the single European aviation market and will ensure high safety and security standards and a uniform application of aviation rules across Europe.

You can read this and a lot more in the following document from the second quarterly report from the Air Transport Portal of the European Commission:

AIR TRANSPORT: DRAFT QUARTERLY REPORT NO.11 2nd QUARTER 2006 (April to June)




Lots of info on the aviation website of the EU.

[world]

Thanks for the info I truely appreciate your efforts!
I appreciate the fact that higher safety and security standards will be
in force in each of the European countries which are part of the ECAA.
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What i would really like to know is, does this European Common Aviation Area Agreement
mean that there will be unrestricted and free competition
in ALL the countries within the ECAA as from the 01 jan 2007?
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So during 2007, can any new start up carrier, lets say in Croatia, operate
without any restrictions on any current routes and to any destination,
without objection from any mainstream carrier?

[ElcoB]

The ECAA in efect would liberalize the air transport industry by allowing any company from a ECAA member state to fly between any airports in all ECAA member states (including the possibility for foreign company to provide domestic flights). It is expected by the year 2010 the market integration between EU and non-EU members to be completed.

I'm not a specialist in all this but as far as I see it, the answer on your two questions is yes, at least in the near future (2010).

But the ACAA is an ongoing proces. Not all of it is realised or implemented. For instance traffic control ;" The Community regulator will merge upper European airspace, currently divided into national regions. It will organise this airspace uniformly, with air traffic control areas based on operational efficiency, not national borders. Also, it will integrate civil and military air traffic management".

So for Croatia the correct info on your questions for today will be found with Ministarstvo za Europske Integracije and Ministarstvo Pomorstva, Prometa i Veza

[world]

Quote: " It is expected by the year 2010 the market between
EU and non-EU members to be completed"
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I thought this European Common Aviation Agreement or so called Open Skies
from the 1st of Jan 2007, would allow any new or current operator
to operate freely on any route in the 35 countries and without
objections from any mainstream airline in any country!
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It appears to me that because Croatia,Bosnia,Serbia,
Macedonia(Skopje), Montenegro and Albania are still non-EU countries,
then new airlines in these regions that wish to engage in scheduled operations,
can be denied permission by the local mainstream airlines to operate on their cream routes until 2010!
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This would explain to me the reason why the new Croatian scheduled
airline Air Adriatic, is NOT targeting the cream routes from Zagreb-
Frankfurt,Munich,Amsterdam,Paris,Vienna,Rome which are operated
by the mainstream airlines!
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[world]

I just want to update my last post!
I have recieved info from a very reliable source that Croatia s signature for the European Common Aviation Agreement,
WAS for unrestricted competition on ALL scheduled flights from Croatia to ANY destination within the European Union.
Thats great news for any new scheduled airline operating to and from
Croatia during 2007.
Iam not sure what degree of deregulation the other non-EU countries of Serbia,Bosnia,Montenegro ,
Macedonia(Skopje) and Albania will ALLOW new operators to engage in from 1st of jan 2007.