Complementing the charging system by transfers made within the framework of these contracts so as to ensure financial stability.

The charging scheme should allow the optimum use of airspace, taking into account air traffic flows, in particular within functional airspace blocks as established in accordance with Article 5 of Regulation (EC) No 551/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 10 March 2004 on the organisation and use of the airspace in the single European sky (the airspace Regulation)

The charging scheme should allow the optimum use of airspace, taking into account air traffic flows, in particular within functional airspace blocks as established in accordance with Article 5 of Regulation (EC) No 551/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 10 March 2004 on the organisation and use of the airspace in the single European sky (the airspace Regulation) (3).

(14) In order to ensure consistent, harmonised application of the infrastructure charging system, new tolling arrangements should calculate costs in accordance with a set of core principles or be set at a level which does not go beyond that which would result from the application of these principles; these requirements should not apply to existing arrangements unless they are substantially modified in the future; such substantial modifications would include any significant change to the original terms and conditions of the tolling s ...[+++]cheme through modification of a contract with the tolling system operator but would exclude changes provided for in the original scheme.

The principal aim of this proposal is to introduce a system of controlled competition to ensure that the award of public service contracts on a competitive basis is underpinned by rules that protect the general interest, by ensuring the availability in all regions of high-quality public transport services at affordable prices catering to all social ...[+++]requirements. The proposal is currently being examined by the Council and the European Parliament.

(24) Whereas to this end some Member States have adopted specific legal provisions; whereas, to protect the general good, it is possible to adopt or maintain such legal provisions in so far as they do not unduly restrict the right of establishment or the freedom to provide services, it being understood that such provisions must apply in an identical manner whatever the home Member State of the undertaking may be; whereas these legal provisions may differ in nature according to the conditions in each Member State; whereas these measures may provide for open enrolment, rating on a uniform basis according to the type of policy and lifeti ...[+++]me cover; wheras that objective may also be achieved by requiring undertakings offering private health cover or health cover taken out on a voluntary basis to offer standard policies in line with the cover provided by statutory social security schemes at a premium rate at or below a prescribed maximum and to participate in loss compensation schemes; whereas, as a further possibility, it may be required that the technical basis of private health cover or health cover taken out on a voluntary basis be similar to that of life assurance;