EUROPEAN COMMISSION Brussels, 16.1.2012 SEC(2011) 1439 final ANNEXE volume II Addendum to SEC(2011) 1439 final - addition of the second part COMMISSIO STAFF WORKIG PAPER AEXES TO THE IMPACT ASSESSMET Accompanying the document Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on groundhandling services at Union airports and repealing Council Directive 96/67/EC EN EN TABLE OF AEXES Annex I: Glossary....................................................................................................................... 5 Annex II: Acronyms................................................................................................................... 7 Annex III: Source and use of data in the IA............................................................................... 9 1. Sources of data used..................................................................................................... 9 1.1. List of Studies and other sources of information: ........................................................ 9 1.2. Consultation material ................................................................................................. 10 2. Research and use of data in the impact assessment ................................................... 10 3. Critical analysis of the data........................................................................................ 12 Annex IV: Overview of airports covered by the Directive per Member State in 2009 ........... 13 Annex V: Details about the consultation of the groundhandling working group of the Sectoral Social dialogue committee (on civil aviation) and the internet-based consultation on the possible revision of the Directive 96/67............................................................... 17 1. Consultation of the Groundhandling working group of the Sectoral social dialogue committee (on Civil Aviation) ................................................................................... 17 2. Internet-based consultation about the possible revision of the groundhandling directive...................................................................................................................... 18 Annex VI: Map of groundhandling market opening systems in the Member States ............... 61 Annex VII: Presentation of a sample of groundhandling companies providing services at EU airports........................................................................................................................ 62 Annex VIII: Infringement proceedings .................................................................................... 63 Annex IX: General information about the EU groundhandling market and number of groundhandling providers and self-handling airlines for restricted services at the 60 EU busiest airports ..................................................................................................... 66 1. General information about the EU groundhandling market:...................................... 66 2. Number of groundhandling suppliers and self-handling airlines for potentially restricted services at the 60 busiest airports............................................................... 67 Annex X: Approval systems in the EU-27 Member States...................................................... 71 Annex XI: Extract of the EASA annual safety review 2009, p18-19 ...................................... 86 Annex XII: Centralised infrastructures at EU airports............................................................. 92 Annex XIII: Evolution in the number of groundhandling companies for "restricted services" 1996-2007 .................................................................................................................. 94 Annex XIV: Groundhandling and working conditions............................................................ 95 Annex XV: Subcontracting at EU-airports .............................................................................. 98 EN 2 EN Annex XVI: Regulation of the groundhandling market elsewhere in the world ................... 100 1. Australia ................................................................................................................... 100 2. USA .......................................................................................................................... 104 3. India.......................................................................................................................... 105 Annex XVII: ISAGO: presentation of the ISAGO initiative ................................................. 107 Annex XVIII: Screening of policy measures and pre-selection............................................. 109 1. Approach to policy measures................................................................................... 109 1.1. List of policy measures identified............................................................................ 109 2. Methodology adopted for the screening process...................................................... 111 2.1. Content of the screening process.............................................................................. 111 2.2. Selection of policy measures.................................................................................... 113 3. Assessment of the policy measures.......................................................................... 113 3.1. Performance of the policy measures against a number of criteria ........................... 113 3.2. Full assessment ........................................................................................................ 115 4. Detailed analysis of discarded options enjoying a significant support amongst some stakeholders groups.................................................................................................. 121 Annex XIX: Methodology used for the assessment and comparison of options against a pool of criteria .................................................................................................................. 124 Annex XX: Considerations about space and congestion ....................................................... 126 Annex XXI: Administrative costs.......................................................................................... 132 1. Step for the calculation of administrative costs ....................................................... 132 2. General assumptions for administrative cost calculation......................................... 133 3. Comparison of policy measures concerning approval systems................................ 133 3.1. Presentation of the baseline scenario: ...................................................................... 134 3.2. Comparison of administrative costs for the baseline and policy measures.............. 139 4. Comparison of policy measures concerning reporting obligation put on groundhandlers about their performance ................................................................. 150 COMMISSIO STAFF WORKIG PAPER AEXES TO THE IMPACT ASSESSMET Accompanying the document EN 3 EN Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on groundhandling services at Union airports and repealing Council Directive 96/67/EC EN 4 EN Annex I: Glossary Term Explanation Also called "restricted services", or even sometimes (unduly) "airside services", these groundhandling services are: - baggage handling, "restricted services" - ramp handling, - fuel and oil handling, - freight and mail handling as regards the physical handling of freight and mail, whether incoming, outgoing or being transferred, between the air terminal and the aircraft. Also called "airline" or "air carrier" : "Any natural or legal person responsible for the carriage of Airport user passengers, mail and/or freight by air from, or to the airport in question." : airlines serving the airport Airport Users Committee At each airport, a committee of representatives of airport users Infrastructures at the airport used for the supply of groundhandling services whose complexity, cost or Centralised infrastructures environmental impact does not allow of division or duplication, such as baggage sorting, de-icing, water (CI) purification and fuel-distribution systems. It is possible to make it compulsory for groundhandling services providers to use these infrastructures. A natural or legal person whose sole activity is to provide services consisting of door-to-door transport for documents, parcels and freight for urgent delivery and where the air carriage, sorting and delivery of Freight integrators the documents and parcels form an integral part of that service. Examples of integrators are DHL, Fedex, UPS, etc. Groundhandling services The services provided to airport users at airports as described in the Annex of the Directive 96/67 ; the 11 groundhandling services categories which are : 1. Ground administration and supervision comprise: 1.1. representation and liaison services with local authorities or any other entity, disbursements on behalf of the airport user and provision of office space for its representatives; 1.2. load control, messaging and telecommunications; 1.3. handling, storage and administration of unit load devices; 1.4. any other supervision services before, during or after the flight and any other administrative service requested by the airport user. 2. Passenger handling comprises any kind of assistance to arriving, departing, transfer or transit passengers, including checking tickets and travel documents, registering