4. Calls therefore on the High Representative/Vice-President and Member States to make substantial efforts to explore synergies in dual civil-military use of strategic airlift capacities; welcomes the cooperation between the Monitoring and Information Centre (MIC) and the European Union Movement Planning Cell (EUMPC) in the EU disaster response effort in Pakistan in this regard; calls on Member States to substantially increase air transport capabilities pooled in the European Air Transport Command (EATC) while ensuring dual civil-military use of these capabilities; welcomes in this regard the proposal by the Belgian Presidency to esta ...[+++]blish a multinational helicopter corps in the framework of the EATC to be used for both civilian and military tasks;

(e) total capacity already allocated, by market time unit, and all relevant conditions under which this capacity may be used (e.g. auction clearing price, obligations on how to use the capacity, etc.), so as to identify any remaining capacity;

8. Agrees to follow a more realistic path than before and to make optimum use of limited capacities and stresses the importance of the efficient and innovative use of the various transport modes operating on their own or in multimodal integration; stresses that the development of co-modality should be in line with reducing the impact of transport on the environment; notes that each transport modes should develop on their own merits under corresponding environmental standards, carrying their own costs, thereby enhancing mobility by i ...[+++]ncreased efficiency in all transport modes; stresses that co-modality enables an optimal and sustainable utilisation of resources to be reached by mobility management in transport logistics and by intermodal linkage of the various modes, which could decrease traffic, while getting surplus capacities to benefit the entire system;

A network manager, representing all aviation stakeholders, including the military, should be responsible for improving route and sector design from a network perspective and be the backbone for reinforcing central capacity planning and traffic flow management services and optimising the use of airport capacity by providing clear rules on network access and efficient use of routes.

Agreements on secret service cooperation and on the unlimited transfer of information classified secret are part of the “Berlin plus agreement”, which allows the EU to take military action using NATO capacities.

31. Considers that the first attempt to reach an agreement with Turkey has been made outside the EU decision-making procedures; reaffirms in this context that the EU-NATO agreement on the use of NATO assets and capabilities will not undermine the decision-making autonomy of the Union and calls on the Council to define a clear negotiating mandate for this issue; calls for the High Representative for the CFSP to directly negotiate this issue with the General Secretary of NATO;