The European Commission is planning to begin an assessment of the directive on access to the market for stopover assistance in EU airports (Directive 96//96/EC) in 2018 and to publish a roadmap on the subject the following year.
The announcement was made by a Commission representative at a conference on the directive organised in Copenhagen on Thursday 27 April by the social partners in the stopover assistance sector.
The assessment of the twenty-year old directive will be followed by an...