Minutes of Aviation meeting 30th august 2004 European Chamber, Shanghai Offices		Minutes prepared by   Ioana Kraft bm@euccc.com.cn	Next Meeting Date: 18th October 2004,   Time:4.30pm   Venue: TBC
	Participants	European Chamber Member
1	Lufthansa	Don Bunkenburg		[眉]
2	Airfrance	Damien Talvard		[眉]
5	KLM	Eliza Lin		[眉]
7	Lufthansa	Florian Heurich		[眉]
10	European Chamber Shanghai	Ioana Kraft (BM)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

AGENDA

 

 

 

1. Forward agenda for the coming months:

  The WG discussed the key recommendation lined out in this year?? Position Paper and other issues that have been brought up at previous meetings in order to draft a forward agenda for the next months:  

路 Transparency in terms of fuel cost, landing and airport administration fees

 

The WG members decided to address these issues to the local Airport authorities. The Group recommended contacting Mr Wu Yan, the Director of Airport Authorities and Mr Xia Xin Hua of Eastern China CAAC. The Chamber?? secretariat will be in charge of making the contacts.

 

路 FASCO developments

 

BM will invite Ralph Koppitz (Taylor Wessing law firm) to give a presentation at the next WG meeting. 

  

路 GDS

 

Eliza Lin will provide BM with the contact details of Galileo so that she can contact and invite one of Galileo?? representatives to give a presentation at one of the next WG meetings, probably in November.  

 

路 Cargo issues

 

Air freight issues will not be part of the Aviation WG. The WG members advised to contact the Air Cargo companies and invite the representatives to participate in the Logistics WG meetings.

 

路 Tax related issues ??business tax issues

 

BM will invite a member of Finance and Taxation WG to give a presentation on tax issues of foreign Airlines in china, e. g. customs tax on uniforms and brochures.

  2. Strategy for Lobbying at local level   The Chamber?? secretariat will contact the relevant authorities and arrange meetings in order to present the WG?? Position Paper and begin a dialogue.   3. New Sino-US Agreement on Flight Increase   The Members decided not to take action concerning the Agreement. 

 

 

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