Indonesia is a member State of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
On 7 June 2016 the Council authorised the Commission to open comprehensive air transport negotiations with ASEAN. The future EU-ASEAN comprehensive air transport agreement (CATA) will be the first block-to-block air transport agreement and will cover market access as well as a wide range of areas (safety, security, air traffic management, social, consumer and environmental protection, fair competition etc.) where regulatory convergence should gradually be established. The negotiations are currently ongoing.
On 17 August 2009 the EU initialled a Horizontal Aviation Agreement with Indonesia. This agreement allows any EU airline to operate flights between Indonesia and any EU Member State where it is established and where a bilateral agreement with Indonesia exists and traffic rights are available. It does not replace the bilateral agreements but adapts them to bring them into line with EU law. This is a major step change from the traditional set-up of aviation based on nationality restrictions and complements the EU's internal aviation market on the external side.
For further information and figures on EU-Indonesia aviation relations and EU aviation in general, please consult the Atlas of the Sky.
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EU and Indonesia sign deal that will boost air transport [IP/11/818, 30/06/2011]
EU and Indonesia agree on horizontal air services agreement [IP/09/1236, 17/08/2009]
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29 June 2011: EC and Indonesia sign deal that will boost air transport (1)
29 June 2011: EC and Indonesia sign deal that will boost air transport (2)
29 June 2011: EC and Indonesia sign deal that will boost air transport (3)
29 June 2011: EC and Indonesia sign deal that will boost air transport (4)
17 August 2007: EC and Indonesia agree on horizontal air services agreement (1)
17 August 2007: EC and Indonesia agree on horizontal air services agreement (2)