BUILDING EUROPES FUTURE ATM SYSTEM The Single European Sky: Status of Implementation

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BUILDING EUROPES FUTURE ATM SYSTEMThe Single
European Sky Status of Implementation

• Bo REDEBORN
• Director ATM Strategies
• EUROCONTROL

EUROCONTROL PRESS OPEN DAY Brussels, 17 November
2005
European Organisation for the Safety of Air
Navigation
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THE SINGLE EUROPEAN SKY (SES) LEGISLATION

• Launched in 1999, the SES aims to
• Reduce of ATM fragmentation between
• States
• Civil and military
• Systems
• Facilitate the introduction of new technology
• Optimise synergy between European institutional
  actors (European Commission, EUROCONTROL,) with
  global cooperation with ICAO.
• SCOPE
• The adoption of EC legislation is essential for
  the development of the Single European Sky
  (supremacy of EC law over national laws and
  harmonization of national laws).
• The SES legislation covers EU States and States
  having concluded agreements covering this issue
  with the EC.
• SES regulations can have a pan-European coverage
  through EUROCONTROL regulatory mechanisms.

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EUROCONTROL AND SES IMPLEMENTATION

• In providing its recognised expertise and
  experience on SES activities, EUROCONTROL is
  instrumental in the advent of the Single
  European Sky.
• EUROCONTROLs work to further develop the ATM
  network in a safe and cost-effective manner
  allowing for sustainable growth of the air
  transport sector has been further enhanced with
  the adoption of the Single European Sky
  legislation package.

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ROLE OF EUROCONTROL in SES LEGISLATION
DEVELOPMENT

• Article 8 of the Regulation (EC) No 549/2004 of
  10/03/04 lays down the framework for the creation
  of the Single European Sky
•  For the development of implementing rules
  () which fall within the remit
• of EUROCONTROL, the Commission shall
  issue mandates to
• EUROCONTROL () .
• An administrative Memorandum of Cooperation helps
  to organise the day-to-day cooperation.
• Deliverables to the European Commission, while
  taking into acount the EC membership in
  EUROCONTROL, capture both EUROCONTROL expertise
  and stakeholders views.
• () Reports with draft Implementing rules
  and impact assessments
• and feasibility reports for
  non-regulatory matters

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SES REGULATIONS

• A regulatory framework addressed the creation of
  the Single European Sky.
• In April 2004, four regulations came into force
• Framework Regulation addressing political,
  institutional and procedural elements
• Service Provision Regulation ruling the
  provision of air navigation services
• Airspace Regulation ruling the organisation and
  use of the airspace
• Interoperability Regulation addressing the
  interoperability of the ATM network.
• This set of regulations is supported by
  Implementing Rules
• Under the Comitology process (SES Committee,
  supported by ICB-Industry Consultation Body )
• Development under progress with the support of
  EUROCONTROL
• Adoption of European Commissions regulations or
  directives

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Inventory of developments under the SES
Regulations (1)
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Inventory of developments under the SES
Regulations (2)
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REGULATORY FRAMEWORK FOR FUNCTIONAL AIRSPACE
BLOCKS (FABs)

• Airspace Regulation - Article 5 With a view
  to achieving maximum capacity and efficiency of
  the air traffic management network within the
  single European sky, and with a view to
  maintaining a high level of safety, the upper
  airspace shall be reconfigured into functional
  airspace blocks.
• Objectives
• creation of a single, unified European upper
  airspace
• better integration of the management of the
  airspace
• airspace design predicated solely on operational
  requirements stemming from safety, capacity and
  efficiencies
• without regard to the alignment of existing
  national political boundaries.
• EUROCONTROL deliverable
• Report covering several scenarios illustrating
  different FAB models, involving different volumes
  of airspace. Each of these scenarios addresses
  issues and opportunities along six business
  components (operational aspects, technical
  aspects, economic and financial aspects, social
  and human resources aspects, legal and
  institutional aspects and military aspects).

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FUTURE SES ACTIVITIES

• The present set of Implementing rules will be
  complemented
• where and when relevant.
• Through the provision of article 8 of the
  Framework
• Regulation, it is anticipated that EUROCONTROL
  is tasked
• to develop additional Implementing rules over
  the period
• 2006-2008.