Regulations, 2004

Suppliment tal-Gazzetta tal-Gvern ta’ Malta, Nru. 17,541, 17 ta’ Frar, 2004

L.N. 84 of 2004

CIVIL AVIATION ACT

(CAP. 232)

The Airport (Groundhandling Services) (Amendment)

Regulations, 2004

IN exercise of the powers conferred by article 3 of the Civil Aviation

Act, the Minister for Transport and Communications has made the

following regulations

(1) The title of these regulations is the Airport Citation,

commencement and

(Groundhandling Services) (Amendment) Regulations, 2004 and they scope.

shall be read and construed as one with the Airport (Groundhandling

Services) Regulations, 2003, hereinafter referred to as “the principal L.N. 66 of 2003.

regulations”.

(2) These regulations shall come into force on the 1 st May,

2004. (3) These regulations adopt the measures contained in

Council Directive 96/67/EC of 15 th October 1996 in its up-to-date

version, hereinafter referred to in these regulations as Council Directive

96/67/EC.

In regulation 2 of the principal regulations, after the definition Amends regulation

2 of the principal

of “Committee”, there shall be inserted the following new definition: regulations.

“ “Council Directive” means a directive of the Council of

the European Union published in the official Journal of the

European Union;”.

For regulation 6 of the principal regulations, there shall be Amends regulation

6 of the principal

substituted the following

regulations

“6. The managing body of the airport shall ensure free access

by suppliers of groundhandling services established throughout

the European Union to the market for the provision of

groundhandling services to third parties in accordance with Council

Directive 96/67/EC

Provided that not more than two suppliers are authorised to

provide each category of airside services and at least one of the

authorised suppliers may not be directly or indirectly controlled

by:-

(a)

the managing body of the airport,

(b) any airport user who has carried more than 25% of

the passengers or freight recorded at the airport during the

year preceding that in which those suppliers were selected,

(c) a body controlling or controlled directly or

indirectly by the managing body or any such user

Provided further that the managing body of the airport, either

directly or indirectly, may also provide airside services in addition

to the other two authorised suppliers.”.

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