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Each year the Chairmen and Secretaries of the Consultative Committees at the larger UK airports meet to discuss common issues and to share experience.  On this page we reproduce the agenda papers and minutes of the meeting held at Birmingham in 2003 along with the slides used in two presentations given to the meeting.

The Annual Liaison Meeting is administered by the officers of Gatwick Airport Consultative Committee - the contact is Paula Street  - and by Stuart Innes of London City Airport Consultative Committee.

The Agenda papers and minutes for the meetings in 2002, 2004, 2005 and 2006 are available elsewhere on this site:

• meeting at London Gatwick on 30/31 May 2002
• meeting at Bristol International on 23/24 June 2004
• meeting at Liverpool John Lennon Airport on 22/23 June 2005
• meeting at Manchester Airport on 22/23 June 2006
• meeting at Stansted on 13/14 June 2007
• meeting at Heathrow on 11/12 June 2008

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27th Annual Liaison Meeting - Birmingham - 3rd/4th July 2003 -  Agenda Papers and Minutes In 2003 the annual liaison meeting was held at Birmingham on 3rd/4th July.  Below there are links to the Agenda and the papers considered at the meeting  as well as the Minutes
Programme (25k) Minutes (52k)
Agenda Papers
	Agenda (13kb)		1. Note of 26th Meeting at London Gatwick (44kb)
	3. National Ambient Noise Strategy & EC Directive 2002/49/EC - Assessment and Management of Environmental Noise (73kb) **		4. Future Development of Air Transport in the United Kingdom (24kb)
	5. Support for Airport Consultative Committees (26kb) **		6.  Revision of Guidelines for Airport Consultative Committees (106kb) **
	7.  Control of Ground Noise at Airports (39kb)		8. Aviation and the Environment: Using Economic Instruments (31kb)***
	9. Windfarms: Effect on Radar (70kb) **		10.  Uninsured use of Private Aircraft (43kb) **
	11.  DfT Study - Attitudes to Noise from Aircraft Sources in England (ANASE) (44kb)		12.  EU Directive on the Establishment of Rules and Procedures for introducing noise related operating restrictions at Community Airports (41kb) **
	13.  EU Proposal for a Directive on the Establishment of a Community Framework for noise classification of civil subsonic aircraft for the purposes of calculating noise charges (37kb) **		14.  Publicity & Possible Website (46kb)
	15.  European Aviation Update (56kb)
Presentations
	Getting the Balance Right A Presentation by Professor Callum Thomas of Manchester Metropolitan University (160kb)**		EU Environmental Noise Policy by John Hinton, Chair EU Working Group on Assessment of Exposure to Noise (182kb)**
	**  See also the paper considered at the 2002 Meeting at London Gatwick
	***  The Note referred to in paragraph 4 of the paper at Agenda Item 8 above (Aviation and the Environment: Using Economic Instruments).  This note is also available on the DfT and Treasury websites. (87kb)
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