EU-US experience Sample Clauses

EU-US experience. The leitmotiv of the EU negotiations with the US is without any doubts the question of freedoms. The EU aims to rebalance the situation while the US is not willing to make further concessions on the subject since the current situation is benefiting them. Currently thanks to the Open Sky bilateral agreements between the US and Member States, the US have the possibility to link commercially two member states. They possess the majority of the traffic rights of fifth freedom in Europe and even in some cases the seventh freedom for freight. In other words, boarding new passengers from Paris to Frankfurt in a plane coming from Washington is possible (fifth freedom). Furthermore, if an American carrier sees that there is a niche to build a direct flight, for example, from an EU airport to Beijing for the freight, there is absolutely no restriction in both countries (seventh freedom). As it was shown by the previous examples, the American carriers enjoy fully the existence of fragmented European market. Contrary to the US carriers in Europe, the European carriers in the US can not exploit a line between two American cities. For instance, let us suppose that a British Airways plane takes off in the UK, lands in New York and continues its journey to Los Angeles. In the segment New York – Los Angeles no new passenger can be admitted on board, only the passengers coming from UK. This is definitely a loss of potential resources for European airlines since they fly with free seats. Naturally, by forbidding the cabotage in the American territory, the government had two intentions. First, it aimed to limit the competition within its borders to the American companies. Second, it obliged the European carriers to establish alliances and a code-share system with their American partners because, they knew that it is impossible for a European airline, even if it is a major one, to provide direct flights to all American destinations. With reference to the seventh and eighth freedoms, it will take a long time to persuade the Americans in this direction. Briefly, market access to the European and American carrier is rather different. Consequently, the European Commission, on behalf of the European Union, is putting some pressure on the American side on this subject. This is one of the points where once again one can perceive a difference with the past negotiations. It is a completely different weight negotiating when the delegation represents the entire community instead of one pa...