On Friday 15 September, the European Commission adopted a new set of rules designed to improve interoperability between the systems and components used to provide air traffic management (ATM) and air navigation services (ANS). The new framework, comprising five regulations, will enable standardisation of the performance of ground-based air traffic management equipment and encourage the introduction of innovative technologies.
These delegated acts replace the previous one, which applied until Tuesday 12 September (see EUROPE 13230/10). Reflecting a single market approach, these new rules reduce the fragmentation of the ground ATM equipment market and also strengthen the role of the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA). As digitalisation and data exchange between systems on the ground and in the air become increasingly common, it now makes sense, from a safety point of view, to apply the same approach to both sets of systems.
The new framework also covers rules on the equipment required on board aircraft for use of ‘Single European Sky’ airspace, common requirements for air traffic management and air navigation service providers concerning data link and surveillance, and elements of flight planning under standardised European rules of the air.
Read the new rules: https://aeur.eu/f/8mr (Original version in French by Anne Damiani)