Traduction de «exécuter des sauvetages » (Français → Anglais) :

"Aviation Flights which arrive at or depart from an airport situated in the territory of a Member State to which the Treaty applies. This activity shall not include: (a) military flights performed by military aircraftflights by customs and police services, flights for search and rescue purposes as well as medical and disaster relief including fire-fighting which are authorised by the appropriate competent authority; (b) flights for humanitarian purposes under a mandate from the United Nations or its subsidiary organisations and Emergency Medical Service flights, if the aircraft operator has been instructed to perform them (e.g. by the United Nations) or holds the necessary official authorisation (licence for such EMS flights under its Air ...[+++]Operator's Certificate); (c) flights terminating at the aerodrome from which the aircraft has taken off and during which no intermediate landing has been made; (d) training flights performed exclusively for the purpose of obtaining a licence, or a rating in the case of cockpit flight crew where this is substantiated by an appropriate remark in the flight plan provided that the flight does not serve for the transport of passengers and/or cargo ; (e) flights performed exclusively for the purpose of scientific research or for the purpose of checking, testing, qualifying or certifying aircraft , equipment or air-traffic-management procedures , whether airborne or ground-based; ferrying new aircraft as well as ferry flights performed by or on behalf of an aircraft owner as a consequence of the occurrence of a sudden early termination event, event of default, repossession, or similar occurrence in respect of a leasing, charter or similar arrangement ; and (f) flights performed by aircraft with a certified maximum take-off weight of less than 20 000 kg , under the condition that operators of these aircraft participate in an offset scheme which operates according to strict criteria and which must be open to external control (comparab ...

(b) military flights performed by military aircraft as part of an international mission, flights by customs and police services, flights for search and rescue purposes as well as medical and disaster relief including fire-fighting which are authorised by the appropriate competent authority

(b) military flights performed by military aircraft and customs and police flights and search and rescue flights authorised by the appropriate competent authority;

Article 2 of the framework agreement stipulates that implementation of the measures agreed between the parties will be in two phases, namely a rescue period and a period of restructuring.

As regards the Belgian authorities’ argument that the Commission had never expressed reservations regarding the provisional continuation of the rescue measures, it suffices to recall that the Commission, in its letters of 13 October 2003 and 26 January 2005, included the following warning: the Commission draws ‘the attention of the Belgian authorities to the suspensive clause on implementation Article 88, paragraph 3, of the EC Treaty, laid down in Article 3 of Council Regulation (EC) No 659/99, which prohibits the implementation of any new aid before the Commission has taken, or is deemed to have taken, a decision authorising it.

The state aid which was implemented by France for Ernault as rescue aid and was the subject of the Commission decision of 20 January 2005 is incompatible with the common market since it has been maintained beyond 14 December 2006.