The European Commission has taken another enabling step toward the creation of a Single European Sky (SES) by signing a memorandum of co-operation with Eurocontrol. This comes immediately after the political go-ahead for the SES granted by the European Union Council of Ministers in mid-December (Flight International, 23 December 2003-5 January).
Now, says Eurocontrol, it and the commission "will extend their co-operation to other areas such as research and development, technical information, data collection and analysis in the air traffic and environmental areas, global satellite navigation systems [Galileo] and international co-operation with a view tobuilding a unified European vision of future air traffic management systems".
Source: Flight International
