4. Considers that the redundancies in the 'repair and installation of machinery and equipment' sector in the region of Southern and Eastern Ireland are linked to major structural changes in world trade patterns due to globalisation, as shown by the closure of LTAI as a result of a serious shift in Union trade in goods and services resulting from a technological shift towards the production of new generation aircraft and components, by the shift in wider aircraft component production practices with resultant impacts on the market funda ...[+++]mentals of the underlying business model of LTAI and the shift in location of global aircraft production; notes that the tendency for West European and US carriers is to send their wide-bodied aircraft to China for heavy maintenance and that even the parent company Lufthansa Technik has decided to base its global Airbus A330/340 MRO operations at its Lufthansa Technik Philippines subsidiary;

The Irish authorities argues that the closure of the LTAI is a result of a serious shift in the EU trade in goods and services resulting from a technological shift towards the production of new generation aircraft and components; a shift in wider aircraft component production practices with resultant impacts on the market fundamentals of the underlying business model of LTAI and a shift in location of global aircraft production.

14. Notes that the parliamentary and judicial inquiries that took place in Lithuania between 2009 and 2011 were not able to demonstrate that detainees had been secretly held in Lithuania; calls on the Lithuanian authorities to honour their commitment to reopen the criminal investigation into Lithuania's involvement in the CIA programme if new information should come to light, in view of new evidence provided by the Eurocontrol data showing that plane N787WH, alleged to have transported Abu Zubaydah, did stop in Morocco on 18 February 2005 on its way to Romania and Lithuania; notes that analysis of the Eurocontrol data also reveals new information through flight plans connecting Romania to Lithuania, via a plane switch in Tirana, Albania, ...[+++]on 5 October 2005, and Lithuania to Afghanistan, via Cairo, Egypt, on 26 March 2006; considers it essential that the scope of new investigations cover, beyond abuses of power by state officials, possible unlawful detention and ill-treatment of persons on Lithuanian territory; encourages the Prosecutor-General's Office to substantiate with documentation the affirmations made during the LIBE delegation's visit that the ‘categorical’ conclusions of the judicial inquiry are that ‘no detainees have been detained in the facilities of Projects No 1 and No 2 in Lithuania’;

Distillate used for aviation turbine power units. It has the same distillation characteristics between 150 oC and 300 oC (generally not above 250 oC) and flash point as kerosene.

General and Business aviation: the expression "General and Business aviation" describes a wide variety of activities ranging from recreational flying with non-powered aircraft to the operation of high-performance business aircraft and specialised aerial works.

The time and flight cycles as appropriate, since last overhaul of the aeroplane or aeroplane component subjected to an overhaul life – until the aeroplane or aeroplane component overhaul has been superseded by another overhaul of equivalent work scope and detail;