European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA)

EASA is the European Union Authority in aviation safety. The main activities of the organisation include the strategy and safety management, the certification of aviation products and the oversight of approved organisations and EU Member States. Established in 2002, EASA enjoys over 10 years in operation. The Agency staff is composed of more than 700 aviation experts and administrators from all EU Member States. The headquarters is in Cologne (Germany) with an office in Brussels and 3 international permanent representations in Washington (USA), Montreal (Canada) and Beijing (China).

EASA enjoys technical, financial and legal autonomy to ensure the highest common level of safety protection for EU citizens within the EU and worldwide, to ensure the highest common level of environmental protection, to avoid duplication in the regulatory and certification processes among Member States and to facilitate the creation of an internal EU aviation market.

EASA plays a leading role within the EU External Aviation Policy: the Agency is a strong counterpart of other Aviation Authorities outside the EU (e.g. USA, Canada, Brazil) and a major contributor to the export of the EU aviation standards worldwide, in order to promote the movement of EU aeronautical products, professionals and services throughout the world.

•  The Vision of the EASA

 ØEver safer civil aviation.

• The Mission of the EASA

 ØEASA’s mission is to promote the highest common standards of safety and environmental protection in civil aviation.

•  The Tasks of the EASA

Ø  Make implementing rules in all fields pertinent to the EASA mission

Ø  Certify & approve products and organisations, in fields where EASA has exclusive

competence (e.g. airworthiness)

Ø  Provide oversight and support to Member States in fields where EASA has shared

competence (e.g. Air Operations , Air Traffic Management)

Ø  Promote the use of European and worldwide standards

Ø  Cooperate with international actors in order to achieve the highest safety level for EU

citizens globally (e.g. EU safety list, Third Country Operators authorisations)

• The Goals of the EASA

1. Governance. To establish a governance system which allows the Agency to work efficiently and maintain its technical independence.
2. Staff satisfaction. To work with the staff to achieve a high level of satisfaction and motivation.
3. Intelligence. To improve the Agency’s knowledge of the political environment in which it acts.
4. EASA image. To be recognised as the driving force at the heart of the European aviation system, commanding authority and credibility in the aviation community worldwide.
5. Strengthen EU system through partnership. To work cooperatively with European and foreign regulators.
6. Support to industry. To establish a regulatory system, which enables the industry to develop a competitive and safe business.

Upranation AviationSafety Links

 Ø  European Commission (DG Energy & Transport)

 Ø  Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA)

 Ø  European Civil Aviation Conference (ECAC)

 Ø  International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)

 Ø  ICAO - Flight Safety Information Exchange

 Ø  European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation (Eurocontrol)

 Ø  SESAR Joint Undertaking

BOARDS OF THE EASA

Management Board

The EASA Management Board brings together representatives of the Member States and the European Commission. The Management Board is responsible for the definition of the Agency's priorities, the establishment of the budget and for monitoring the Agency's operation.

EASA Advisory Board

The EASA Advisory Board assists the Management Board in its work. It comprises organisations representing aviation personnel, manufacturers, commercial and general aviation operators, maintenance industry, training organisations and air sports.

EASA Board of Appeal

Pursuant to Article 44 of the Basic Regulation, an appeal may be brought against decisions of the Agency which have been taken in the following fields:

 Ø  Investigation of undertakings;

 Ø  Airworthiness and Environmental Certification;

 Ø  Fees & Charges regulation.

Agency Organisation Structure

Regulations and the Annexes of the EASA

 There are eleven regulations of the EASA namely, Initial Airworthiness, Continuing Airworthiness, Air Crew, Air Operations,Third Country Operators, ANS

Common Requirements, ATM/ANS safety oversight, ATCO Licensing, Airspace Usage Requirement, SERA, Aerodromes

Member States

1.Austria
Ø  Bundesministerium fur Verkehr, Innovation und Technologie
ØAustrocontrol

2.Belgium
Ø  Service Public Federal Mobilité et Transports - Direction Generale Transport Aérien
Ø  Federale Overheidsdienst Mobiliteit en Vervoer

3.Bulgaria
Ø  Civil Aviation Administration

4.Croatia
Ø  Croatian Civil Aviation Agency

5.Cyprus
Ø  Ministry of Communications and Works - Department of Civil Aviation (DCA)

6.Czech Republic
Ø  Civil Aviation Authority
Ø  Ministry of Transport

7.Denmark
Ø  Danish Transport Authority

8.Estonia
Ø  Estonian English
Ø  Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications: ET / EN

9.Finland
Ø  Finnish Tranport Safety Agency

10.France
Ø  Direction Generale de l'Aviation Civile

11.Germany
Ø  Bundesministeriums fur Verkehr, Bau und Stadtentwicklung (BMVBS)
Ø  Luftfahrt-Bundesamt

12.Greece
Ø  Hellenic Civil Aviation Authority

13.Hungary
Ø  NKH Nemzeti Kozlekedesi Hatosag - National Transport Authority Hungary

14.Iceland
Icelandic Civil Aviation Administration

15.Ireland
Ø  Department of Transport
Ø  Irish Aviation Authority

16.Italy
Ø  Ente Nazionale per l'Aviazione Civile

17.Latvia
Ø  Civilās aviācijas aģentūra

18.Liechtenstein
Ø  Landesverwaltung Liechtenstein

19.Lithuania
Ø  Civil Aviation Administration

20.Luxembourg
Ø  Direction de l'Aviation Civile du Luxembourg

21.Malta
Ø  Transport Malta, Civil Aviation Directorate

22.Norway
ØLuftfartstilsynet - Civil Aviation Authority Norway

23.Poland
Ø  Civil Aviation Office
Ø  Ministry of Transport

24.Portugal
Ø  Instituto Nacional de Aviacao Civil

25.Romania
Ø  Romanian civil aeronautical authority

26.Slovak Republic
Ø  Ministry of Transport, Posts & Telecommunications/Directorate General of Civil Aviation
Ø  Civil Aviation Authority

27.Slovenia
Ø  Ministry of Transport
Ø  Civil Aviation Authority

28.Spain
Ø  Ministerio de Fomento - Aviacion Civil
Ø  AESA, Agencia Española de Seguridad Aérea (Spanish Aviation Safety and Security Agency)

29.Sweden
Ø  Transportstyrelsen (Swedish Transport Agency)

30.SwitzerlandFederal Office of Civil Aviation (FOCA) EN
Ø  Bundesamt fur Zivilluftfahrt (BAZL) DE
Ø  Office federal de l'aviation civile OFAC FR

31.The Netherlands

Ø Inspectie Leefomgeving en Transport

32.United Kingdom
Ø  Department for Transport
Ø  Civil Aviation Authority

European Civil Aviation Conference (ECAC)

   European Civil Aviation Conference (ECAC)

      The European Civil Aviation Conference (ECAC) as Europe’s largest and longest-standing aviation organization is an intergovernmental organization which means involving two or more governments or levels of government. It was established by the Council of Europe and International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). It is located Paris in France. It was founded in 1955 with 19 member states, but according to SKYbrary it was founded by 18 member states. And now, ECAC has 44 states.




     ECAC Member States are: Albania, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the Republic of Macedonia, TURKEY, Ukraine and United Kingdom.

     ECAC has working with some European organizations such as European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) and EUROCONTOL. ECAC agrees and issues resolutions, recommendations and policy statements. ECAC's missions are support to development of aviation safety and provide efficient European air transportation system. In addition, ECAC also conform to the civil aviation policies like its member states and other parts of the world. Basically, ECAC's strategies are to improve safety, security and saving the environment.


     For conclusion, ECAC was founded in 1955 in Paris with 18 member states. ECAC has a unique role to help the success of the air transport sector in Europe and as already observed ECAC has working relation with EASA and EUROCONTROL.

Association of European Airlines (AEA)

What We Know about Association of European Airlines

Association of European Airlines (AEA) consists of some European Airline companies as is also understood from its name. AEA was founded in 1952. Air France, KLM, Swissair and Sabena Airline companies leaded to AEA when it was founded. In time, AEA grew by participating in other airline companies. According to 2014 data, it has 30 members. Firstly, there were three standing committees increased to five by participating in Infrastructure and Environment and Social Affairs.

Let's take a brief look at current members.

The Presidents' Committee is presided by CEO of Turkish Airlines Temel Kotil. According to AEA data, Turkish Airlines provides the most of the passengers increase rate of 23.6% in Europe at the end of 2013, compare to 2012. Kotil said that: " Turkish Airlines has share rate of 12.5% within AEA. We are playing a big role by supporting civil aviation and global development."

AEA Members Airlines carry nearly 400 million passengers and 5.5 million tones cargo. They operate 10,000 flights a day, serving 600 destinations 160 countries.
AEA makes a meeting twice yearly. Its last meeting took place in Turkey in 2014. Turkish aviation has a great success last year, for this reason meeting became in Istanbul.
The aim of the association is representing its members to European Union and the other associations. Furthermore, AEA supports members in order to focus on their businesses and improve them, by following all aero-political issues, analyzing their impact, recommending strategies and networking with all relevant stakeholders. The association has a high quality position to collect industry intelligence that provides its members with an overview of their global business environment, provide them to promote their positions at national level.

Key Objectives

*** Promote aviation's role in Europe's future

*** Innovate for the benefit of customers

*** Contribute to better, smarter and more cosr-effective regulation

*** Ensure conditions for fair competition

*** Champion a global security framework

How AEA Reaches to Public?

AEA informs the media and the public about its positions and views via Press Releases, interviews, participation in conferences, AEA's official website and social media.

EUROCONTROL Analyze With The Annaul Report 2013

                                        EUROCONTROL


Massage From President of Council 

           According to the President of the Provisional Council, Patrick Gandil EUROCONTOL has a significant effect on air transport management and it keeps increasing its effectiveness. Furthermore, there will be a new member which is the 41st member, Estonia and there are number of other countries in progress. According to the stakeholder survey in 2013, the member states have shown that they are ready to adapt EUROCONTROL to the changing environment, but EUROCONTROL should remain as an intergovernmental organization and it shows the power and dynamic structure of this organization. In addition as a result of this power and dynamic structure delays decrease to 0.53 minutes per flight due to the air traffic flow management. While this is below the 2013 target of 0.6 minutes, it is still above the 2014 target of 0.5 minutes. However achieving these numbers is not easy due to the insufficient capacity of the air traffic control.

Member States
 
               EUROCONTROL serves as Europe’s Network Manager for its members. It gathers air traffic control elements in order to reduce delay and risk. It also recommends most efficient routes in order to minimize environment impact. Furthermore, they also manage scarce resources, such as the radio frequency spectrum, and serve as a central point for crisis coordination. It also has a platform to create military civil cooperation. It links airports with the air traffic management network promote global interoperability, monitor and assess air traffic management’s performance right across Europe, helping its member states to meet their goals and targets. It helps to prepare for the future in our research and development activities. It contribute to financing the entire civil aviation system by running a central route charges system for the calculation, billing, collection and distribution of air navigation services charges. In addition to promoting good performance, it is also recognized for its expertise in monitoring, analyzing and benchmarking air traffic management’s performance, both in Europe and more widely. It is implementing a range of Centralized services that will be cheaper and more operationally efficient to run than if they were implemented on a regional or local level. Centralized services will create a competitive market for the provision of air traffic management services in Europe. EUROCONROL does all of  these in order to have more effective net work for the thirty one member state and achieving Single European Sky project.

                          From all of these data we can understand that EUROCONTROL has a great effect on European civil aviation. It maximizes safety and minimizes distance, costs and time lost and in order to do that it uses complex calculations with in internal governmental mechanism. It also tries to predict and divert the future. Since the aviation has grown dramatically, the need for Single European Sky increase and EUROCONROL create legislative framework for European aviation with the Single European Sky packages.

JAA- Joint Aviation Authorities

The Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA) which was started in 1969  was an associated body of the European Civil Aviation Conference (ECAC) representing the civil aviation regulatory authorities of a number of European States who had agreed to co-operate in developing and implementing common safety regulatory standards and procedures.  


The JAA Membership was based on signing the "JAA Arrangements" document originally signed by the then current Member States in Cyprus in 1990.


JAA's functions:

The JAA's work began in 1970 (when it was known as the Joint Airworthiness Authorities).  Originally its objectives were only to produce common certification codes for large aeroplanes and for engines.  This was in order to meet the needs of European Industry and particularly for products manufactured by international consortia (e.g. Airbus).  Since 1987 its work has been extended to operations, maintenance, licensing and certification/design standards for all classes of aircraft. In June 3-7,2002, there was 19th Annual FAA/JAA International Conference in Phoenix, Arizona. In this conference transition from JAA to EASA had been discussed.With the adoption of the Regulation (EC) No 1592/2002 by the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union (EU) and the subsequent set up of the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) a new regulatory framework was created in European aviation. 
According to this Regulation, for EU Member States national regulation in the airworthiness domain has been replaced by EU Regulation and certification tasks have been transferred from National Authorities to EASA, Non EU States maintain their responsibility in all fields. 
Consequently, a "Roadmap" for the establishment of clear milestones for JAA's future was developed and adopted by the JAAB and by ECAC's DGs in August 2005 (FUJA Report) proposing a transformation from JAA into JAA T (T for "transition"), comprising a Liaison Office (LO) in Cologne (Germany) and a Training Office (TO) in Hoofddorp (The Netherlands). In November 2005 the EU Commission began the legislative process to amend EASA Regulation (EC) 1592/2002 to extend the competences of EASA into the fields of operations and licensing. In May 2006 minor amendments to the FUJA Report were agreed by the JAAB and ECAC's DGs contemplating practical arrangements to take into account the revised anticipated dates for the extension of EASA competences. Furthermore EU Regulation 1899/2006, dated 12 December 2006 was published on 27 December 2006.  This Regulation amends Council Regulation 3922/1991.  The amendment contained a new Annex II dealing with commercial flight operations and is referred to as EU OPS.  Following an implementation period of 18 months, EU OPS became directly applicable as of 16 July 2008.

JAA's objectives:

• High uniform level of safety
• Cost-effective system
• Contribute to free circulation
• Promote the JAA system worldwide

Membership: 

• 36  Member Authorities Pre-requisite for membership: European Civil Aviation Conference  (ECAC) membership
• Concept of full / candidate members

Scope:

• Design and Manufacture; operation and maintenance of aircraft
• Licensing of aviation personnel
• Aircraft noise and emission

Closing:
Based upon a decision of ECACs DGs in adopting the FUJA II Report, it was decided to disband the JAA system per 30 June 2009 and to keep the JAA Training Organization running. The JAA Training Organization however will contiune to deliver training courses.
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See also:
jaa.nl/nav/general
jaa_wikipedia