The Commission's investigation related to the sale of LOT Services - which provides ground handling services -, LOT Catering and LOT Aircraft Maintenance Services.

The GATS does apply, however, to aircraft repair and maintenance services, the selling and marketing of air transport services and computer reservation system services.

For maintenance organisations approved in accordance with Subpart F of Annex I (Part-M), the component certificate of release to service statement referred to in point M.A.613:

(i) aircraft repair and maintenance services during which an aircraft is withdrawn from service;

Here, in addition to lowering the number of employees, efforts centred on ground-handling services and aircraft maintenance, company organization, improving customer services, renovating the fleet and switching freight transport to aircraft which do not carry solely cargo.

Along with other announcements made over the past year, the government has undertaken now to renew all of Canada's maritime forces over the next 20-plus years: investing industry with the capacity for long-term in-service support of the 4 Victoria class submarines in the years to come; modernizing the 12 Halifax-class ships, truly the bridge to our future fleet, ensuring that these ``workhorses'' remain as combat capable in the second half of their service lives as they have been in the first half; introducing the Cyclone maritime helicopter — when these aircraft are introduced to the modernized Halifax-class frigates, that team of shi ...[+++]p and helicopter will be among the most tactically capable combination in any navy; modernizing the existing Aurora fleet and providing for its eventual replacement; acquiring new capabilities and added capacities that we have not had before for operations both at home and abroad through the acquisition of six to eight Arctic offshore patrol ships and three joint support ships; and finally, acquisition of 15 new Canadian surface combatants, initially to replace the Iroquois class destroyers that quarterback the Canadian task group and eventually to replace the Halifax class when these ships reach the end of their service life in the 2020s and well beyond.