Greece is being taken to the European Court of Justice by the European Commission (EC), which says the state has failed to establish a national supervisory authority required to prepare nations for the Single European Sky (SES) air transport initiative.
Under the SES framework regulations, European Union (EU) member states are required to separate the provision of air navigation services from their supervision and regulation.
“Member states are required to create or establish an independent national supervisory authority to assume the different tasks identified in the EU legislation, including the certification of air navigation service providers and the on-going compliance oversight,” the EC says.
“Up to now Greece has failed to fully establish an independent authority.”
The EC says it is taking Greece to the court after failing to receive satisfactory responses from Greece to two reasoned opinions sent last December and in June this year.
Source: FlightGlobal.com
