Air transport: The European Commission adopts on June 8th, 2017 a ‘Open and Connected Aviation’ Package focused, on the one hand, on rules on Ownership and Control of European Union air carriers and, on the other hand, on Public Service Obligations (Aviation)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. As part of its new aviation strategy for Europe adopted in 2015 (see IP/09/105), the European Commission has adopted a new strategy for aviation in Europe. COM(2015) 598 final of 7 December 2015), the Commission adopted on 8 June 2017 a Communication entitled "Aviation: An Open and Connected Europe" (COM(2017) 286 final) which is accompanied by a package of four measures with the common objective of, on the one hand, enabling European aviation to maintain a leading position in international airspace and, on the other hand, removing barriers to growth within the Single European Sky. Preserving international competition in the airline industry To this end,