European Parliament 18 July 2002, WRITTEN QUESTION E-2159/02 by Alexandros Alavanos (GUE/NGL) to the Commission. Air accident in southern Germany and safety conditions in airspace.

coordinate Europe’s air traffic control systems. As things stand at the moment, a plane flying between, for example, Rome and Paris, is handled by six different air traffic control centres during the course of its journey. This situation is fraught with coordination difficulties aggravated by the fact that the various centres do not use the same computer systems.