Airports: The European Commission adopts a proposal for a directive to set common principles for the levying of security charges at Community airports and to impose to Member States to nominate or establish an independent body as their national independent supervisory authority in order to ensure the correct application of these principles

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. – EC Commission, 11 May 2009, Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on aviation security charges, COM(2009) 217 final, SEC(2009) 615 final and SEC(2009) 616 final. After intervening in the area of airport charges (see Directive 2009/12/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 2009 : cf. ConcurrencesNo. 2-2009, this column, p. 196. ; N. Chapier-Granier, "First Community legislative milestone on 'airport charges'. Commentaire de la directive n° 2009/12/CE du 11 mars 2009 sur les charges aéroportuaires", Europe, étude n° 6, juin 2009, p. 4 and L. Grard, "Enfin la directive 'redevances aéroportuaires' ! ", Rev.