Diapositive 1

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Common EU rules for aerodrome safety and
interoperability

• AOA Operations Safety Conference
• Leeds, 11-12 June 2007
• Filippo Tomasello (EASA)

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Safety Rulemaking XX century
ICAO, ECAC, JAA, EUROCONTROL
EU States
Discretionary transposition into national legal
order

• Standards and recommended practices
• Safety regulatory requirements
• JARs
• Etc

Legally binding
Non legally binding
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The past
ECAC
JAA
ICAO
EUROCONTROL
27
20
15
10
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Member State 1
4
3
27 different legal transpositions
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Shortcomings

• Insufficient regulation of safety oversight
  (e.g. requirements for the National Authorities)
• No common transposition dates
• Different legal texts
• Different interpretations and different choices
  about recommended practices
• In practice non uniformity across EU Member
  States non uniform safety distortion of fair
  market competition
• . Plus cost for taxpayers for 27 parallel
  processes!

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Safety Rulemaking XXI century
ICAO, ECAC, JAA, EUROCONTROL
EU/EASA
EU States
Transposition into Community legal order
Discretionary transposition into national legal
order
X

• Standards and recommended practices
• Safety regulatory requirements
• JARs
• Etc

Legally binding
Not necessary
Not legally binding
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The present
ECAC
EUROCONTROL
ICAO
JAA
GASR
Industry (ICB, SSCC)
EUROPEAN UNION
Where Community competence is established

• 1 single legal transposition
• Cheaper process
• Uniform rules
• Wording structure adjusted to the EU legal order

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Main EU legislation for air safety
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Aviation domains covered by common EU safety rules
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Extension of EASA
EASA functions
Reg. 1592/2002

• Airworthiness
• Environment

1st extension proposal COM (2005) 579 1st
reading EP 13 March 2007

• Air Operations
• Flight Crews
• Collective oversight

• Aerodromes (EASA CRD 06/2006 of 05 May 2007)

• Subsequent extensions announced by
• COM (2005) 578 of 15 Nov 2005
• Drafting group including external experts working
  on ERs since end 2006

• Air Traffic Management
• Air Navigation Services

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Who is the EU rulemaker?
Support for safety technical regulation
Legislation
Commission

• European Parliament and Council, adopt
• Legislation (e.g. Regulations and Directives)
• including, if appropriate, Essential Requirements
  (ER)
• based on proposals by the Commission

• adopts Implementing Rules (IR)
• including economic regulation
• monitors and enforces their application

• EASAs opinions
• mandates to EUROCONTROL

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Tasks of EASA
Art. 2(3) of Regulation 1592/2002

• Preparation, adoption and uniform application of
  all necessary acts (i.e. rules, specifications)
• Certification and oversight of undertakings,
  aeronautical products and professionals (directly
  or through National Authorities)
• Standardisation of uniform implementation by
  National Authorities uniform safety

Operational or service tasks excluded
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Regulation in the EASA system

• Common safety interoperability rules for the
  totality of aviation activities
• Rules proportionate to complexity of operations
• Certification of organisations, staff, products
• Distribution of tasks between EASA and NAAs
• Delegation of some tasks to approved entities
•  Controlling the controllers 
• Use expertise already available in EU
• Build upon  acquis communautaire  (including
  SES)

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Rulemaking
Regulation
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Scope of the aerodrome  opinion 
e.g. RWY incursion
Out of scope Damages to aircraft parked or
towed to maintenance
Prevention of collisions among aircraft (even
on the apron)
Safety of the individual aircraft (e.g.
aerodrome infrastructure, management, services,
local area, interfaces, obstacles,...)
intending to fly
Scope of ATM/ANS regulation  gate-to-gate 
Scope of aerodrome Essential Requirements
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Rulemaking procedure in summary
AGNA SSCC involved
All citizens
2 months (min)
3 months
several months
RM PROGR.
Decision (Opinion)
TOR
NPA
Review
CRD
Draft
PUBLICATION
3 months (max)
External experts involved
CONSULTATION NPA
ADOPTION
DRAFTING
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Extension of EASA to aerodromes progress state
of play

• Task BR.002
• Basic principles ERs for safety
  interoperability of aerodromes
• Terms of Reference published in February 2006
• Notice of Proposed Amendment published 16 May
  2006
• 3010 comments received
• Comments Response Document
• Published 05 May 2007
• Reactions possible (2 months) until 05 July 2007
• Agency Opinion
• Publication (including ERs RIA) envisaged by
  the summer 2007
• Legislative proposal by EC expected in spring 2008

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Review of Comments (Comments Response Document)

• Comments reviewed by Agency staff and by experts
  not involved in drafting of the Essential
  Requirements (ERs)
• CRD review with external experts end January 2007
• and 29 May 2007
• Comment Response Document (CRD) published on the
  EASA web site (05 May 07) containing
• CRD Policy document (Explanatory Memorandum)
• Inventory of answers (on the NPA questions)
• Responses to specific comments and proposals to
  amend ERs
• Stakeholders may react to CRD (within 2 months)
  by 05 July 2007

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ED Decision Publication of Opinion

• ED will issue decision not earlier than July 2007
  (gt2 months after the publication of CRD)
• Opinion will be transmitted to EC

Co-decision (European Parliament Council)
Legislative Proposal
Opinion
European Commission
EASA Committee
Adoption IRs by EC
Opinion
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What is an aerodrome?

• Infrastructure and design
• Equipment including navigation aids
• Air side operations
• Management
• Authorities, individuals and organisations whose
  actions may impact on the safety of the air side

Air Terminal passenger services


Airport
Aerodrome
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Proposed Definitions

• ICAO (Annex 14) Aerodrome A defined area on
  land or water (including any buildings,
  installations and equipment) intended to be used
  either wholly or in part for the arrival,
  departure surface movement of aircraft
• CRD Aerodrome A specially adapted defined
  area, on land, water or man made structure or
  vessel for the landing, taking-off manoeuvring
  of aircraft including the ancillary equipment,
  installations and services which these operations
  may involve for the requirements of aircraft
  traffic
• CRD Airport An aerodrome which includes the
  installations and services needed to assist
  commercial (passenger, freight or mail) air
  transport services

Similar to EC COM (2006) 820 of 24 January 2007
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Applicability of CRD definition
Aerodromes
Aerodromes on land with one or more prepared
runways, for CTOL or STOL aircraft
Aerodromes on water especially adapted
Heliports
on water
Ship borne heliports on vessels
Helidecks on off shore platforms
on land
on roofs or elevated platforms
at ground level
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Proposed Definitions

• CRD Interoperability Possibility for an
  aircraft/aircrew to fly from place to place
  according to common rules devised to provide for
  the necessary level of safety and allowing
  operational situational awareness and common
  understanding (of instructions, procedures,
  signs, markings, visual aids, etc) by all users
• CRD Open to public use The use of the area and
  facilities can be planned by any pilot-in-commend
  of a General Air Traffic (GAT) flight either
  because the opening hours and services available
  are made known to the public, or because a
  contact point, with whom to agree access timing,
  is published, provided the aircraft and pilot
  qualifications comply with published
  non-discriminatory conditions imposed to ensure
  the safety of operations

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Scope of EU rules
Aerodromes
Open to public use
Basis for instruction in flying
Opening hours and services made known
Non discriminatory conditions and contact point
made known
In AIP
Through the web
Through other means
Through other means
Through the web
In AIP
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CRD conclusions Essential Requirements

• Question 2 in NPA proposed Essential
  Requirements (ER) constitute a good basis for the
  safety and interoperability regulation of
  aerodromes (within the envisaged scope)? How
  should they be improved (e.g. as regards the
  rescue and fire fighting services)?
• Conclusions
• The majority can broadly accept the draft ER as a
  good basis
• Proposal in CRD
• New Annex (ERs) to the Basic Regulation
• Same level of detail as in the NPA
• Final ERs proposal with the Opinion

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Essential Requirements
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CRD conclusions Essential Requirements

• Rescue Fire Fighting
• More flexibility than present ICAO Annex 14
  (Edition 4 amendment 7)
• Consider severity and probability
• Consider effectiveness and cost of mitigation
  means
• Qualification number of staff
• Specific aerodromes exempted from some ERs (i.e.
  Chapter B2)
• Totality of ERs (Management System Manual)
  applicable to
• Airports serving commercial air transport IFR
  scheduled traffic

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CRD conclusions scope equipment
Scope Annex 14
Scope IRs
SMR
Ext. agents
Standard parts
Single European Sky

• Non standard constituents mentioned in Annex 14
• Performance
• Design, production maintenance
• Conformity assessment
• Etc.

• C, N, S MET constituents and systems
• C, N, S MET services

• Electric components
• Vehicles
• Ext. agents
• Etc

• Siting, installation and integration
• Operations and supplies
• Protection, etc

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What about C, N, S at aerodromes?

• According to Service provision Regulation
  (550/2004) in the Single Sky
• Air Navigation Service Providers, of either ATS,
  C, N or S shall be certified
• Only ATS providers are designated
• For C, N or S market mechanisms are applicable

• Rely on the designated ATS provider, which may
  also be certified for N services
• Acquire directly certification as N service
  provider
• Subcontract a certified European N provider,
  different from the two above

Then, 3 possibilities for aerodrome operators
(e.g. to ensure provision of ILS signals)
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Scope of Certification
Aerodromes open to public use instruction basis
Serving scheduled IFR CAT
Subject to certification

Management

• MS
• Manual

• Staff
• Emergencies
• Wildlife
• LVP
• Interfaces

Local area
Integration and operation of equipment
Physical charact. and infrastr.
Non standard equipm.
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CRD conclusionsCertification processes

• Declaration of conformity of constituents signed
  (if required) by manufacturer
• No separate process for declaration of
  verification of implemented/integrated equipment
• One certificate for infrastructure and equipment
• One certificate for the management/operator
• Possibility to merge the two processes, when
  owner operator same entity

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Certification by whom?
Aerodromes open to public use instruction basis
Serving
Designation competent Authority (ies) by National
Governments
Serving IFR Commercial Air Transport
IFR Commercial aerial work
Non Commercial IFR
VFR
By assessment bodies
By competent Authority
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By when?
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Which basis for Implementing Rules?
Legal basis in the Basic EASA Regulation (once
amended)

• Voluntary
• Group of Aerodrome Safety Regulators
• (GASR)
• established in 1996
• today comprising 28 National Aviation Authorities
• Involved in the development of the Essential
  Requirements

GASR Aerodrome (draft) Regulations (GAR similar
to JAR) starting point to develop EASA IRs