Strasbourg, 10/09/2001 (Agence Europe) - The European Parliament announced on Wednesday its adoption of a report by Ingo Schmitt (EPP, Germany) on the plan to set up a European Air Safety Agency. The entity is to be tasked with centralising the certification process for European aviation equipment. The MEPs' first-reading decision (co-decision procedure) involved accepting the 60 or so amendments the rapporteur recommended, mainly so as to ensure the Agency is more independent from the...