ECA applauds the efforts made by the EU Commission to improve the draft agreement from the text rejected in 2004. Despite having some serious concerns which prevent us from giving the draft agreement wholehearted support, ECA believes that overall it represents a reasonable achievement, given the very weak position the EC was presented with as its starting point.

For details, please see sites/default/files/OAA_ECA-Position-PP-06-0131-F.pdf">ECA Position Paper (Jan. 2006) on EU-US Draft Air Transport Agreement (PDF).