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Single market for commercial aviation services in Europe
The
European Common Aviation Area
(
ECAA
) is a
single market
in aviation
services
.
ECAA agreements were signed on 5 May 2006 in
Salzburg
, Austria between the EU and some external countries. It built upon the EU's
acquis communautaire
and the
European Economic Area
. The ECAA liberalises the air transport industry by allowing any company from any ECAA member state to fly between any ECAA member states airports, thereby allowing a "foreign" airline to provide domestic flights.
Membership
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Founding members
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On 9 June 2006, the ECAA agreement was signed
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by almost all of the 27
EU members
, the
European Union
itself, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Iceland, Montenegro,
North Macedonia
, Norway, Serbia as well as
Kosovo
(
UNMIK
as Kosovo representative under
Security Council
resolution 1244
). The last two EU member states to sign it were Slovakia and Latvia respectively on 13 June 2006 and 22 June 2006.
Enlargements
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Further agreements to join the Common Aviation Area have been offered to the EU's
Eastern Partnership
members. Agreements currently in force, include:
- Georgia
signed a CAA on 2 December 2010.
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- Moldova
signed on 26 June 2012.
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- Ukraine
and the EU signed a Common Aviation Area agreement on 12 October 2021, as part of the 23rd Ukraine-EU summit in
Kyiv
. The
Prime Minister of Ukraine
Denys Shmyhal
, the Ambassador of Slovenia (then the EU Presidency) to Ukraine Toma? Mentzin and the Head of the EU Foreign Service
Josep Borrell
signed the agreement.
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- Armenia
started negotiations to join after a new
Armenia-EU partnership agreement
was signed in February 2017.
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Armenia and the EU finalized negotiations on 15 November 2021, with the signing of a Common Aviation Area Agreement between the two sides at a ceremony in Brussels.
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Euro-Mediterranean aviation agreements (EMAAs)
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Moreover, a system of association agreements with the ECAA has been enacted for the Mediterranean partnership countries.
In force
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- Morocco
signed its Euro-Mediterranean Aviation Agreement (EMAA) with the EU on 12 December 2006.
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- Jordan
signed its Euro-Mediterranean Aviation Agreement (EMAA) with the EU on 15 December 2010.
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- Israel
signed its Euro-Mediterranean Aviation Agreement (EMAA) with the EU on 10 June 2013.
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Under negotiation
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- Tunisia
started its negotiations on 27 June 2013.
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- Lebanon
: on 9 October 2008, the Council of the European Union adopted a decision authorising the European Commission to open negotiations.
- Algeria
: also on 9 December 2008, the Council of the European Union adopted a decision authorising the European Commission to open negotiations, though the negotiations with Algeria have not started yet.
Brexit
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Because the UK has left the European Union (
Brexit
), the UK is no longer part of the Common Aviation Area. Unless permission or new treaties with the UK are made, aviation to and from the UK may stop
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.
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There was a delay in this hard Brexit until the end of 2020, because the
Brexit withdrawal agreement
states that most EU rules continue to be valid for the UK during 2020. However, EU has approved regulations 2019/494 and 2019/505 in order to secure air traffic between UK and EU plus EEA.
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Also, the British government has taken various steps to ensure the continuation of air travel, such as an open skies agreement with the
United States
.
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The British airline
EasyJet
which has many flights outside the UK has set up a subsidiary in Austria (
easyJet Europe
) whilst keeping its headquarters in Luton, England.
See also
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