Pathway
to the future - 2004 Activity Report
Taking into
account the Provisional Council’s objectives, States’ declared priorities, the
impact of the accession of the European Community to EUROCONTROL, together with
consideration of the trends in the external environment, the Agency has
recently articulated itself along the following 4 key strategic themes:
·
Co-ordinated management of specific
Pan-European functions: based on the principle of centralised functions to exploit the
economies of scale and complementing national functions, functions such as CFMU
and CRCO continue to be provided at European level.
·
Provision of regional services: as requested by Member States
provision of services such as MUAC and in the medium term CEATS UAC.
·
Support to regulation: exploiting pan-European
operational and technical expertise, develop requirements to support regulatory
activities.
·
Co-operative network design: the strategic planning, research
and development, co-ordinated programme implementation and advanced training over
the medium term for gate-to-gate system performance improvement.
In 2004, SESAME
an overall joint EUROCONTROL - European Commission programme was launched aiming
at developing the Master Plan for the successful implementation by 2020 of a
high-performance European ATM Network to meet Single European Sky objectives.
This programme will considerably influence the Co-operative network design axis.
One of the
objectives of SESAME is to establish a strong and focused link between
research, validation, development and finally implementation with a high level
of participation by all Air Transport Stakeholders.
In that
context, the mission of the EEC being to play a leading role in the research
and development within this Co-operative
network design axis, a major strategic objective of the EEC, in 2004, was
to align its Work Programme with this emerging ATM Master Plan, which resulted
in the following revised structure:
In 2004, significant
successes were achieved in each of these axes. The Activity
Report details these key achievements. For readers who are in a hurry, the
"KEY RESULTS" chapter of this report starting on page 12 is self-contained
and provides a quick overview of major results obtained by the EEC in 2004.
If you
would like to receive a paper copy of the 2004 Activity Report please
send an email to Beatrice Bettignies-Thiebaux.