Interim Report - Introduction - EASA

INTERIM REPORT – OPTIONS FOR CHANGE – ATTACHMENT B
EASA.2009.OP.21
/ anti-icing vehicles as part of the aerodrome infrastructure, and service providers would
share this fleet (see Article 8 below).
An option would be to allow the aerodrome to include de-icing / anti-icing vehicles as part of
the aerodrome infrastructure and effectively “rent” them to any service providers.
The impact would be, perhaps, a larger investment in vehicles and some form of oversight of
the quality and maintenance of these vehicles through the NAA oversight of the aerodrome.
Clauses 22
Whereas, in order to enable airports to fulfil their infrastructure management functions and to
guarantee safety and security on the airport premises as well as to protect the environment
and the social regulations in force, Member States must be able to make the supply of
ground-handling services subject to approval;
Clause 23
Whereas, for the same reasons, Member States must retain the power to lay down and
enforce the necessary rules for the proper functioning of the airport infrastructure; whereas
those rules must relate to the intended objective and must not in practice reduce market
access or the freedom to self-handle to a level below that provided for in this Directive;
These two clauses indicate that, in the interests of safety, States must implement an
approval system allowing approved organisations to supply their services; and to be able to
achieve this States have the power to enforce any necessary rules.
States may therefore decide to define technical rules for the proper functioning of de-icing /
anti-icing; such technical rules could vary between simple minimum requirements concerning
equipment standards, through availability of fluids, and up to full-blown regulation of
procedures and training.
The impact would vary depending on the level and quantity of technical rules defined.
Article 4
The managing body of an airport, the airport user or the supplier of ground-handling services
must, under the supervision of the designated auditor, rigorously separate the accounts of
their ground-handling activities from the accounts of their other activities.
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