Brussels, 23/09/2003 (Agence Europe) - Monday's Competitiveness Council rejected without debate the amendments brought by the European Parliament at second reading on the Council's common positions on three dossiers in the field of transport: the creation of the Single European Sky; compensation for passengers in case of delay or cancellation of a flight or of denied boarding; the ecopoints system regulating heavy traffic crossing the Austrian Alps (for details of the disagreements on these dossiers between Parliament and Council, see EUROPE of 16 July, p.16 and of 4 July, p.10 and 11). These are purely formal decisions as the amendments adopted by the Parliament at second reading, which greatly (or entirely) change the Council's common positions, made conciliation unavoidable on these dossiers. Informal trialogues took place in Strasbourg on Monday and Tuesday on the Single European Sky and the dossier on passenger compensation. The results of these trialogues will be presented on Wednesday to the Committee of Permanent Representatives (Coreper). For these two dossiers, the start of the conciliation procedure is planned for 7 October. No time-table indications are currently available for the ecopoints dossier.