Press Release: Reform of European air traffic control takes shape

The European Commission on 12 May 2006 adopted the Airspace Classification Regulation, thus marking another step towards the realisation of the Single European Sky. Together with two other recently adopted Regulations relating to the Single European Sky, the recently published Directive on a Community air traffic controller licence, the launch of the SESAR programme to modernise air traffic management systems and the extension of the tasks of the European Aviation Safety Agency, the Regulation was to represent a concrete contribution to increased safety in aviation and in transcending national borders in European air traffic management.