07/09/2005 (Agence Europe) - Paolo Costa (ALDE, Italy), Chairman of the European Parliament Committee on Transport, told the press on Tuesday in Strasbourg that he hoped his parliamentary committee would adopt the Veyrac report on 11 October regarding air passenger information on the identity of airlines used. This is the first step at European level of the establishment of a blacklist of companies banned from flying for being too unreliable (for the plenary debate with Commissioner Barrot, see EUROPE 9021). The plenary session may thus express its views in November (24 to 27 November) on this proposal for a regulation, in time for the Transport Council on 5 December. A European list with European criteria for “entry and exit” of airlines is indispensable, Mr Costa said, considering that purely national lists like the French or Belgian lists are of little use (“I am told a blacklist is published in Belgium of the companies that only carry goods and an unpublished redlist where there is something more”, the Commissioner said).