European Parliament
Ribeiro e Castro (UEN ),
in writing
(PT)
I congratulate the rapporteur on the fine proposals he makes in his report, the aptness of which has been confirmed by the support given to them by the European Parliament delegation to the conciliation process. The merit of the directive that such proposals aim to achieve is also clear. This directive seeks to establish and regulate a formal system for occurrence reporting in civil aviation to ensure that all players involved have access to these incidents and are aware of them. Indeed, the intention is to ensure that all players involved in this activity learn from each other’s mistakes, thereby making educational and positive use of bad practices. This will help us to establish a system that is safer for all users.
This directive complements the 1994 directive, which contains a series of measures on investigations into accidents in civil aviation, and which is not likely to produce significant results due to the fortunately lower number of accidents occurring. For its part, the reporting system on which this new proposal for a directive is based has greater potential in terms of the quantity of data it can provide.
Also to be welcomed is the proposal for a directive’s provision to force Member States to set up a system for removing personal data in the event that they decide to set up a system for the non-mandatory reporting of data useful to air safety…
(Explanation of vote abbreviated in accordance with Rule 137(1) of the Rules of Procedure)

