European Organization for the Safety of Aviation

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European Organization for the Safety of Aviation
EUROCONTROL

Organization logo
 

English name European Organization for the Safety of Air Navigation
Seat of the organs Brussels , BelgiumBelgiumBelgium 
Chair Frank Brenner (General Director)
Member States

41

founding

1960

www.eurocontrol.int

The European Organization for the Safety of Air Navigation ( European Organization for the Safety of Air Navigation ; abbreviation EUROCONTROL ) is an international organization for the central coordination of air traffic control in Europe . The office is in Brussels .

Objectives

The main objective is the development of a seamless European air traffic management system, which should take into account the constantly growing air traffic while maintaining a high level of safety, reducing costs and protecting the environment .

The system contains the following pan-European functions:

  • Directorate Network Management (formerly Central Flow Management Unit, renamed March 2012) (DNM): Europe-wide route network with the aim of making optimal use of European airspace and avoiding obstructions in air traffic ,
  • European AIS Database (EAD): European database for centralized, quality-assured flight information, which is intended to replace the non-harmonized methods of collecting and delivering aeronautical data in individual countries,
  • Central Route Charges Office (CRCO): European route and approach charges ,
  • EUROCONTROL Experimental Center (EEC): Research and simulations to increase air traffic control capacity in Europe,
  • Central European Air Traffic Services (CEATS),
  • Institute of Air Navigation Services (IANS): training and e-learning,
  • Eurocontrol Safety Regulatory Requirement (ESARR): Safety requirements in the area of ​​aviation management.

To further increase the effectiveness of air traffic management , the organization has started the three-phase Single European Sky ATM Research Program (SESAR) with the European Commission .

The Federal Republic of Germany has gem. Art. 24 GG transfer sovereign rights to EUROCONTROL as an intergovernmental body.

history

The early years

On December 13, 1960 , in Brussels, Belgium, the Netherlands , Luxembourg , France , the United Kingdom and the Federal Republic of Germany signed the international agreement on cooperation for the safety of aviation "EUROCONTROL" ( BGBl. 1962 II pp. 2273, 2274 ; BGBl. 1972 II Pp. 814, 816 ; Federal Law Gazette 1980 II pp. 1446, 1447 ; Federal Law Gazette 1984 II pp. 69, 71 ). In doing so, they founded a European supranational organization for air traffic control, which was entrusted with performing air traffic control tasks in the "upper airspace" of their member states. The Convention entered into force on March 1, 1963, initially for a period of 20 years.

The Maastricht and Karlsruhe control centers were built to control the upper airspace of the Member States of Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg (commissioned in 1972 and 1977), and the Shannon control center for the upper airspace of Ireland. France and Great Britain, contrary to the EUROCONTROL Convention, rejected the construction of control centers for their country and the operation of air navigation services in their airspace by EUROCONTROL for reasons of military policy and declared this stance to be "force majeure".

In 1976 Ireland declared that it could not agree to the Shannon control center built by EUROCONTROL being put into operation because serious social conflicts would arise due to the high salary differences between the staff of the Irish national authorities and the international staff of a EUROCONTROL control center in Ireland. The Irish administration would take over the Shannon control center from EUROCONTROL and operate it with its own staff. With the same arguments, Germany rejected the commissioning of a EUROCONTROL control center in Karlsruhe in 1976 and ensured that the control center was taken over by the Federal Office for Air Traffic Control and put into operation.

With regard to the position of France and Great Britain and the developments regarding the control centers in Karlsruhe and Shannon, the seven member states decided in 1976 to revise the convention and to develop a new catalog of tasks. In particular, the convention should no longer oblige the member states to allow EUROCONTROL to carry out air navigation services in their upper airspace. The organization should only provide such services on a facultative basis. Germany and Benelux made use of this regulation with regard to the control of the upper airspace of the Benelux and Northwest Germany by the EUROCONTROL control center Maastricht in order to ensure the continued existence of the control center Maastricht. The other Member States supported this attitude so that EUROCONTROL could maintain a practical relevance for its activities in the field of research and development of air traffic control systems and test and apply the results in practice. The protocol of amendment to the EUROCONTROL Convention created in this way was signed in Brussels on February 12, 1981, and the contract was extended from March 1, 1983 for a further 20 years. The contract between the organization and the states of Benelux and Germany on the continued operation of the Maastricht control center by EUROCONTROL took place on November 25, 1986.

On the way to the new millennium

On June 27, 1997, a further amendment to the EUROCONTROL Convention was signed to further specify the task, to make the management of the organization more efficient, to switch the decision-making process from the principle of unanimity to majority decisions and to allow regional economic organizations such as the European Community to join enable. The ratification procedure for the amending protocol and the accession of the European Communities has not yet been completed in all member states, so that the new elements of the EUROCONTROL Convention can only be partially implemented on the basis of the Convention that is still in force. Today EUROCONTROL has the following members: In addition to all member states of the European Union , this also includes Albania , Armenia , Bosnia and Herzegovina , Moldova , Monaco , North Macedonia , Switzerland , Ukraine , Serbia , Montenegro , Norway and Turkey . Since autumn 2002 , today's European Union has been working largely like a member of EUROCONTROL in the expectation that the accession protocol for the Union's accession to EUROCONTROL will come into force in the foreseeable future. The European Union is already coordinating the technical positions of the EU member states in the EUROCONTROL organs in accordance with EU law and thus ensures that the EUROCONTROL committees vote in accordance with EU law.

Frank Brenner was elected as the new General Director on July 9, 2012 and took office on January 1, 2013.

Organization and statistics

The organization has around 1900 employees in four European countries. The head office is located in Brussels , there is also the Maastricht Upper Area Control Center, the Experimental Center in Brétigny sur Orge (France) and the Institute of Air Navigation Services in Luxembourg . The Maastricht Upper Area Control Center (Maastricht UAC) in the immediate vicinity of Maastricht Aachen Airport is a district control center that controls the organization of the upper airspace of the Benelux countries and northwestern Germany .

The organization publishes a variety of publications, including a monthly bulletin with statistics and forecasts on international air traffic.

Members by date of entry

The member states

Web links

Commons : European Organization for the Safety of Air Navigation  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b EUROCONTROL Biography - Frank Brenner. Retrieved May 28, 2017 (English).
  2. ↑ Network Manager
  3. ↑ EAD
  4. ↑ CRCO
  5. ↑ EEC
  6. ^ Central European Air Traffic Services. Retrieved June 16, 2019 .
  7. ↑ IANS
  8. ↑ ESARRs
  9. ↑ BVerfG, decision of June 23, 1981 - 2 BvR 1107, 1124/77 and 195/79 Eurocontrol I
  10. ↑ BVerfG, decision of November 10, 1981 - 2 BvR 1058/79 Eurocontrol II
  11. ↑ Torsten Stein: The decision of the Federal Constitutional Court of June 23, 1981 on questions of legal protection against acts of intergovernmental institutions (EUROCONTROL decision) ZaöRV 1982, pp. 596–631
  12. ↑ The EUROCONTROL Agency Structure ( Memento of March 16, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) p. 12
  13. ↑ Example: Industry Monitor Issue N ° 191. 06/03/2017 (English)
  14. ↑ Eurocontrol member countries. Retrieved July 7, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Aviation: Commission takes Croatia to the European Court of Justice for non-ratification of EU accession to the Eurocontrol Agreement, press release of the EU Commission, November 17, 2016