Doc. 9255

8 October 2001

Need for a new level of air transport security following the recent terrorist attacks in New York and Washington D.C.

Motion for a resolution

presented by Mr Billing and others

This motion has not been discussed in the Assembly and commits only the members who have signed it

1.       As shown in the recent terrorist attacks against New York and Washington D.C., the world's - including Europe's - air transport industry needs radically to improve security in order to forestall new types of particularly callous and well-planned forms of terrorism. Necessary measures include still stricter security controls on passengers and luggage, more careful screening of air industry employees, tighter protection of passengers and crews, rendering impossible any control by perpetrators of the cockpit.

2.       The Assembly - in pursuance of earlier reports on this matter, and in particular Recommendation 1099 (1989) on aviation security - calls for the most rapid possible implementation of such measures, in co-operation with the European Civil Aviation Conference (ECAC), the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), the European Union and other competent institutions.

Signed (see overleaf)

Signed : ¹

Billing, Sweden, EDG

Akçali, Turkey, EDG

Akgönenç, Turkey, EDG

Aliyev G., Azerbaijan, EDG

Aliyev I., Azerbaijan, EDG

Baumel, France, EDG

Bergqvist, Sweden, SOC

Bindig, Germany, SOC

Björck, Sweden, EDG

Björnemalm, Sweden, SOC

Budin, Italy, SOC

Calner, Sweden, SOC

Cerrahoğlu, Turkey, EDG

Dromberg, Finland, EDG

Elo, Finland, SOC

Von der Esch, Sweden, EPP/CD

Etherington, United Kingdom, SOC

Gustafsson, Sweden, EPP/CD

Hoegh, Norway, EDG

Kalkan, Turkey, EDG

Kirilov, Bulgaria, SOC

Landsbergis, Lithuania, EDG

Lekberg, Sweden, SOC

Lotz, Hungary, LDR

Magnusson, Sweden, SOC

Mateju, Czech Republic, EPP/CD

Nemcova, Czech Republic, EDG

Ouzky, Czech Republic, EDG

Paleckova, Czech Republic, EDG

De Puig, Spain, SOC

Ragnarsdóttir, Iceland, EDG

Rigoni, Italy, EPP/CD

Rogozin, Russia, EDG

Schreiner, France, EDG

Seyidov, Azerbaijan, EDG

Shakhtakhtinskaya, Azerbaijan, EDG

Stefanov, Bulgaria, NR

Tanik, Turkey, EDG

Telek, Turkey, EDG

Truu, Estonia, EDG

Valleix, France, EDG

Wilkinson, United Kingdom, EDG

¹        SOC: Socialist Group

      EPP/CD: Group of the European People’s Party

      EDG: European Democratic Group

      LDR : Liberal, Democratic and Reformers’ Group

      UEL: Group of the Unified European Left

      NR: not registered in a group