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SUSTAINABLE AVIATION
Sustainable Aviation:
Having the means to realise
our ambition
By Pavel Telička, Vice-President of the European Parliament Committee for Transport and Tourism
Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe
The end of the Parliamentary for the period 2021-2027. The new the change we are aiming at in the
term coincides with the generation of the Connecting Europe aviation sector.
end of the 2014-2020 Facility - the dedicated fund for
programming period and investment in Transport, Energy, When it comes to this objective,
therefore the last legislative work of Telecommunication and Digital my starting point is that reducing
this Parliament will be the adoption infrastructure – the Horizon Europe emissions from the aviation sector
of its first reading position on the programme and the InvestEU fund does not entail cutting on people's
new Multiannual Financial Framework will be strategic tools for achieving mobility and on regions' connectivity,
but that an enormous potential
lies beneath this shift, provided we
adopt a coherent set of policies
aiming at encouraging innovation
and rationalising the airspace. In its
report on an Aviation Strategy for
Europe, the European Parliament
underlines this potential and calls
for a comprehensive transport policy
linking all modes of transport in a
long-term strategy. In a sector which
is relying on heavy infrastructure
investment, a long-term approach
is the only way to ensure public and
private investors have the necessary
guarantee and incentive to finance
research and infrastructure which
aim at serving the transition towards
a sustainable aviation sector.
In this current environment,
expectations are high as regards
the future Commission proposal.
Although, to this date, the proposal
for a CEF next generation remains
unknown, the recently published
Commission communication "A
Modern Budget for a Union that
Protects, Empowers and Defends –
The Multiannual Financial Framework
for 2021-2027" lays out the overall
priorities and guiding principles of the
next programming period.
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