Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Toulouse-Blagnac Airport: Suspension Request … – Challenges.fr

Toulouse-Blagnac Airport: Suspension Request … – Challenges.fr

The judge of the State Council Tuesday, December 30 rejected the request for suspension of the “privatization” of the airport Toulouse -Blagnac made by opponents the project, saying that “no serious doubt” does not exempt state “the legality of the administrative decision”

Elected Midi-Pyrenees, several unions (FSU and Solidaires) and associations local residents had demanded Monday the Council of State to suspend the “privatization” of the airport, denouncing “excessive power” of the state.

According to them, the State would have missed transparency, violated certain provisions of the specifications in the tender and took the final decision harmful to the interests of the region and the aviation industry including a flagship, the Airbus Group, is headquarters in Toulouse .

A setback for the objectors

But the judge of the State Council, ” none of the arguments raised by the applicants is, in the state of education, such as to raise serious doubts “about” the legality of the procedure followed, the compliance nor an error of assessment the government. “

The magistrate dismissed the application for suspension of the project without ruling on the question of whether an emergency could or could not justify it.

The government chose December 4 to assign 49.9% of the company operating the airport Toulouse , the fourth in France outside Paris, the Chinese consortium Symbiosis This should bring more than 300 million euros to the state.

But opponents to the project, denouncing a “privatization” of the airport, intend to question the choice of Bercy before administrative justice. They thus before the Council of State on the merits of the case, the examination should take several weeks and had hired an emergency procedure (in chambers) to try to stop forthwith the ongoing process.

“The decision from the court merely refuse a provisional suspension measure (…) but” this rejection has no impact on the outcome of the application for annulment of the same decision also made by the applicants , “the State Council said in a statement.

(with AFP)

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