Eurocontrol
The European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation ( EUROCONTROL ) is an international organization for the Safety of Air traffic control in Europe. The headquarters of this institution of ATC is Brussels.
Objectives
The primary objective of Euro Control is the development of a seamless European air traffic management system to take account of the ever-growing air traffic, while maintaining a high level of safety, reducing costs and protecting the environment.
The system contains the following pan- European functions:
- Network Management Directorate (formerly the Central Flow Management Unit, renamed March 2012) ( DNM ): Pan-European route network with the aim of making optimum use of European airspace and the prevention of disability in air travel,
- European AIS Database ( EAD): European database for centralized, quality-assured flight information, to replace the non-harmonized methods of aviation data collection and delivery of individual states,
- Central Route Charges Office ( CRCO ): European route and approach fees,
- EUROCONTROL Experimental Centre ( EEC ): Research and simulations to increase air traffic capacity in Europe,
- Central European Air Traffic Services ( CEATS )
- Institute of Air Navigation Services ( IANS): Training and e-learning,
- Euro Control Safety Regulatory Requirement ( ESARR ): Safety requirements in the field of aviation management.
To further increase the efficiency in Air Traffic Management Control euro has started together with the European Commission, the three-phase Single European Sky ATM Research Programme ( SESAR).
History
The early years
On December 13, 1960, signed in Brussels Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, France, the United Kingdom and the Federal Republic of Germany, the Convention Relating to cooperation
For the control of the upper airspace of the Member States, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg, the control centers Maastricht and Karlsruhe control center Shannon were built ( starting in 1972 and 1977 respectively ), for the upper airspace of Ireland. France and Britain refused contrary to the Euro Control Agreement to build control centers for their country and the perception of air navigation services in its airspace by Euro Control of military-political considerations from and explained this attitude with the presence of " force majeure ".
1976 declared Ireland, that it could not agree to a commissioning of the erected by Euro Control Control Centre Shannon, because it would cause serious social conflicts because of the high salary differentials between staff of the Irish national authorities and the international staff of a Euro Control control center in Ireland. The Irish government would take over the control center of Shannon Euro Control and operate even with its own personnel. With the same arguments rejected Germany 1976, the commissioning of a Euro Control Karlsruhe control center and sat through that the control center was taken over by the Federal Agency for Air Traffic Control and put into operation.
In view of the attitude of France and Great Britain as well as the developments concerning the control centers of Karlsruhe and Shannon decided the seven Member States of the Organization Control euro in 1976 to revise the Convention and to develop a new task catalog. In particular, Euro Control, Member States should no longer be bound by the Convention, be left to the perception of air traffic control tasks in their upper airspace. Euro Control should perceive such services only on an optional basis. Germany and the Benelux countries took advantage of this scheme with respect to the control of the upper airspace of Benelux and North West Germany by the Euro Control Control Centre Maastricht use to secure the survival of the control center of Maastricht. The other Member States supported this attitude, so Euro Control maintain for its activities in the field of research and development of air traffic control systems, the reference to practice and test the results in practice and could apply. The change log created in the sense of to Euro Control Agreement was signed in Brussels on 12 February 1981, extended the contract from 1 March 1983 for the next 20 years. The contract between Euro Control and the States Benelux and Germany through the continued operation of the Control Centre Maastricht by Euro Control began on 25 November 1986.
On the way to the new millennium
On 27 June 1997, a supplement to the Euro Control Agreement was signed to specify the task continues to make the management of the organization more efficient, by the principle of unanimity convert the decision-making process of majority voting and the accession of regional and the European Community economic organizations to allow. The ratification process for the change log and the accession of the European Communities has not been completed in all Member States, so the new elements of the Euro Control Agreement can only be partially practiced on the basis of the still existing Arrangement. Today, Euro Control lists the following members: In addition to 27 of 28 European Union countries (Estonia is not a member ), they also include Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Moldova, Monaco, Switzerland, Ukraine, Serbia, Montenegro, Norway and Turkey. Since autumn 2002, the European Community largely operates as a member of Euro Control with the expectation that the Accession Protocol for the accession of the Community to Euro Control comes into force in the foreseeable future. The European Community pursuant to Community law already coordinated the technical positions of the EC Member States in the bodies of Euro Control, thus ensuring a Community- compliant voting behavior in the bodies of Euro Control.
July 9, 2012 Frank Brenner has been elected as the new Director General of Euro Control.
Euro Control in numbers
The organization employs approximately 2,200 people from 36 different countries at seven European sites. 2004 net euro Control the airspace of its members over 8,900,000 flights. On September 10, the busiest day in 2004, 29,495 aircraft movements were registered.
Maastricht UAC
Euro Control maintains very close to Maastricht Aachen Airport Maastricht Upper Area Control Centre (Maastricht UAC ), an area control center in which the organization controls the upper airspace of the Benelux countries, and northwest Germany.
Members by Entry Date
- Belgium (1960 )
- Netherlands (1960 )
- Luxembourg (1960 )
- France (1960 )
- Germany (1960 )
- United Kingdom (1960 )
- Ireland ( 1965)
- Portugal ( 1986)
- Greece ( 1988)
- Malta ( 1989)
- Turkey ( 1989)
- Cyprus ( 1991)
- Hungary ( 1992)
- Switzerland (1992 )
- Austria (1993 )
- Norway ( 1994)
- Denmark ( 1994)
- Slovenia ( 1995)
- Sweden (1995 )
- Romania ( 1996)
- Czech Republic (1996 )
- Italy ( 1996)
- Bulgaria ( 1997)
- Croatia (1997)
- Slovakia (1997)
- Spain ( 1997)
- Monaco ( 1997)
- Macedonia ( 1998)
- Moldova (2000)
- Finland ( 2001)
- Albania ( 2002)
- Poland ( 2004)
- Bosnia and Herzegovina ( 2004)
- Ukraine ( 2004)
- Serbia (2005)
- Armenia ( 2006)
- Lithuania (2006)
- Montenegro ( 2007)
- Latvia (2011)