2023-11-16 05:45:02
The Council of State has dismissed Flanders’ appeal for suspension once morest the new satellite guidance system for planes using Brussels Airport, reports Litter THURSDAY.
Since October 5, a new technique for guiding aircraft by satellite has been used at Brussels Airport. By activating this new system, Federal Minister of Mobility Georges Gilkinet (Ecolo) brings Belgium into compliance with a European obligation which was to be effective by January 2024.
But quickly, the Flemish Region contested the new system, arguing that GPS guidance implied a shift in air routes and increased noise pollution for residents of the areas flown over on the Flemish periphery.
A conflict of interest motion was tabled by the consultation committee (Codeco), a complaint was filed with the Brussels Court of First Instance, and an appeal for suspension was filed with the Council of State.
Also read Flight over Brussels: Flanders contests Gilkinet’s right to act on noise
The latter delivered his judgment on Tuesday dismissing Flanders’ appeal. His extreme emergency appeal is deemed inadmissible. The Council of State considers in particular that its grievances are not sufficiently detailed. Furthermore, tests of the new system were carried out in 2018 and 2019 and Flanders did not then make any comments, underlines the judgment, which concludes: “It does not emerge from the documents in the file what additional noise pollution would result from this displacement of air routes”.
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