European Parliament
Georges Bach  (PPE ).
(DE)
Mr President, I hardly need to emphasise the importance of regional airports. I abstained in the vote on this report because I have a problem with the definition of regional airports. The description given here, namely, to not include ‘airports whose principal catchment area is a capital city’ in the purview of this report, means that numerous smaller airports with relatively low passenger numbers would not be classed as regional airports. These include, for example, Lyon and Dresden, Prague, Dublin, Liège and even Luxembourg. In my opinion, work needs to be done here to find a suitable definition that is more in line with reality.
In my opinion, security is also an aspect that has absolute priority and has not been dealt with adequately.

