There are primarily four things that stick out: reducing local intelligence-gathering capacity by centralizing targeting activities; ending the Canadian involvement in the international container security initiative, meaning abandoning Canada's only pre-arrival examination capacity; abandoning CBSA's role in the federal tobacco control strategy by redirecting the funds earmarked for assessing the effectiveness of reducing tobacco smuggling; and fourth, ending funding for joint Canada-U.S. flights—those are joint charters—that would usually unfold for individuals determined to be a threat to national security, or high-risk criminals, o ...[+++]r uncooperative deportees.

The FAB CE agreement is part of the common response to the Single European Sky performance scheme, whose objective is "to achieve optimal performance in the areas relating to safety, environmental sustainability, capacity, cost-efficiency, flight efficiency and military mission effectiveness, by the design of airspace and the organisation of ATM in the airspace concerned regardless of existing boundaries".

This is a functional airspace block that improves flight efficiency and enables costs to be reduced precisely by eliminating the fragmentation of the skies across a large section of the Mediterranean.

(22) Adequate measures should be introduced to improve the effectiveness of air traffic flow management in order to assist existing operational units, including the Eurocontrol Central Flow Management Unit, to ensure efficient flight operations. Furthermore, the Commission communication on an action plan for airport capacity, efficiency and safety in Europe highlights the need to ensure consistency between flight plans and airport slots.

(22) Adequate measures should be introduced to improve the effectiveness of air traffic flow management in order to assist existing operational units, including the Eurocontrol Central Flow Management Unit, to ensure efficient flight operations. Furthermore, the Commission communication on an action plan for airport capacity, efficiency and safety in Europe highlights the need to ensure suitable coherence between flight plans and airport slots.

31. Believes that a scheme for aviation should as a first step cover all flights to and from any EU airport (if possible also intercontinental flights transiting through EU air space), irrespective of the country of origin of the airline concerned, so as to ensure a level playing field to operators with different route profiles, to avoid distortion of the market in favour of flights to destinations outside the EU, to ensure environmental effectiveness, to prevent cross-subsidisation and to influence aircraft design; stresses that a worldwide emission trading scheme needs to be introduced as soon as possible;