EU Signs Agreement Boosting Air Services With Japan

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To enhance air services with Japan, the Swedish president of the Council, Andreas Carlson, signed an agreement on behalf of the EU with one of the Union’s most important partners in Asia. The EU-Japan agreement will give all EU air carriers non-discriminatory access to routes between the EU and Japan, thereby promoting open and fair competition.

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According to information, the EU-Japan agreement will create a level playing field for EU carriers and a sound legal basis for further development of air services with Japan. Moreover, together with the EU-Japan aviation safety agreement that entered into force in 2021, this agreement will further strengthen bilateral cooperation between the parties in the aviation field.

Andreas Carlson, Swedish minister for infrastructure and housing, commented: “Today, we have set another milestone in the EU’s external aviation policy. This agreement will allow all EU air carriers to benefit from the right of establishment when providing air services to Japan, thus bringing existing bilateral agreements of our member states in line with Union law. This will further develop EU’s cooperation with one of our key partners in the region,”

Following the mechanisms and directives of this “horizontal authorization”, the Commission negotiated an agreement with Japan that supersedes specific provisions in the existing bilateral air services agreements between member states and Japan. Article 2 of the agreement replaces the traditional designation clauses with an EU designation clause, thus permitting all EU carriers to benefit from the right of establishment.

The provisions of this agreement, therefore, supersede the corresponding existing provisions in 13 bilateral air services agreements between member states and Japan, serving a fundamental objective of the external aviation policy of the Union by bringing existing bilateral air services agreements in line with Union law.

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