§ Mr. John MarshallTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport when he last met his colleagues in the Council of Ministers for Transport to discuss deregulation of air fares.
§ Mr. ParkinsonI attended a meeting of the EC Transport Council on 18 June 1990. A formal commitment was made to complete a single market in aviation by the end of 1992, and agreement was reached on a second package of EC air transport liberalisation measures for the interim. Regulations on fares, market access and capacity sharing, and on the application of the competition rules to air transport were adopted. The agreement reached will allow airlines greater freedom to exercise their own commercial judgment.