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Patrick Goudou, the EASA director in his conversation with the journalists has warned the future "entrants": "If they fail the examination based upon the norms of the International Civil Aviation Organization, they will not be allowed to perform flights to Europe". The European Union is so strict in his measures to protect the safety of the own air space, the airports and passengers, that even curiosities happen. So, in December of the last year the President of Indonesia Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono had to cancel his official European tour, because the airline that owns the president plane is in the EU "black list". The list has been published for the first time on the 23-d of March 2006 and since that time the European Committee updates it every four months. The reason became a series of airplane catastrophes among those one with great amount of victims in the end of 2004 in Sharm El Sheikh. The tourists became victims more and more often. The tour operators have been seduced by the cheap services of the foreign carriers that have performed flights to the EU airports, taking groups of holiday-makers from there, heading to the African, Asian and Latin American resorts. At first Great Britain, France and Belgium have introduced their own "black lists" and in the autumn of 2005 the Europarliament has voted for the necessity of a common European register. The following seventh version has been presented at the European Commission briefing on the 11-th of April. And four days later in the Goma Airport (Democratic Republic of Congo) a plane of the "Heva Bora" airline crashed down on a living quarter. The list became a sort of prediction. "Heva Bora" was the only airline from about 50 companies in the list, whose single Boeing was allowed to fly from Kinshasa to Brussels. But in the last version of the lists all their flights to EU have been prohibited. The list consists mostly of the Asian, African and Latin American air carriers. But not only. The new member of the list if the Ukrainian "Ukraine Cargo Airways", that sends their cargo "Antonov" planes all over the world. This is already the third Ukrainian company in the list. "In this way the European Commission sends an insistent signal to the Ukrainian authorities, trying to convince them to observe the safety norms in their airplane park",- told the representative of the press-service of the EU executive department. If the "black list" is based on the indirect data, then the planned audit supposes a direct check of the airlines using a definite set of criteria. "The European Aviation Safety Agency will check all the functional system of the airline, pilot competence, technical service of the airplanes,- explained the director Patrick Goudou,- and only those who have it all in order - will get the "green light". Actually, Brussels and Cologne (where the European Aviation Safety Agency main office is located) do not set any extra orbital requirements. The audit will only prove the conformity to the International Civil Aviation Organization norms. Currently 195 airlines are tagged positive. Among these are the large carriers as well as from developed and from the developing countries (among the last ones the Moroccan "Atlas Blue", the Egyptian "Lotos", Tunisian "Nouvelair", "Ethiopian Airlines" and others). By the way, British Airways has almost lost the permit, being late with their check in the last month. |
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