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Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2020/2201

of 22 December 2020

on the appointment of certain members and their alternates of the Network Management Board and of the European Aviation Crisis Coordination Cell for the air traffic management network functions

(Text with EEA relevance)

THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,

Having regard to Regulation (EC) No 551/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 10 March 2004 on the organisation and use of the airspace in the single European sky (the airspace Regulation)(1), and in particular Article 6(4) thereof,

Having regard to Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/123 of 24 January 2019 laying down detailed rules for the implementation of air traffic management (ATM) network functions(2), and in particular Articles 18 and 19 thereof,

Whereas:

(1) Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/123 establishes a Network Management Board to monitor and steer the execution of the network functions of air traffic management. It also establishes a European Aviation Crisis Coordination Cell to ensure effective crisis management at network level.

(2) The chairperson, vice-chairpersons, members of the Network Management Board and their alternates and the members of the European Aviation Crisis Coordination Cell and their alternates have been appointed for the period from 2020 to 2024 by Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/2168(3).

(3) In 2020, the Commission received a number of proposals for appointments for both the Network Management Board and the European Aviation Crisis Coordination Cell pursuant to Article 18 (7) and Article 19 (2) of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/123.

(4) The persons proposed should be appointed so as to succeed, as from 1 January 2021, to the persons that had been appointed by Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/2168.

(5) This decision should enter into force as a matter of urgency before the beginning of the period covered by the appointments in question.

(6) The measures provided for in this Decision are in accordance with the opinion of the Single Sky Committee,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1 U.K.

The persons listed in Annex I shall be appointed for the period from 1 January 2021 until 31 December 2024 as members and alternates of the Network Management Board, in the respective capacities referred to in that Annex. Where the Annex specifies a shorter time period, that time period shall apply. In respect of the positions concerned by these appointments, the mandates of the persons appointed in accordance with Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/2186 expire on 31 December 2020.

Article 2 U.K.

The persons listed in Annex II shall be appointed for the period from 1 January 2021 until 31 December 2024 as the members and alternates of the European Aviation Crisis Coordination Cell, in the respective capacities referred to in that Annex. In respect of the positions concerned by these appointments, the mandates of the persons appointed in accordance with Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/2186 expire on 31 December 2020.

Article 3 U.K.

This Decision shall enter into force on the day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

Done at Brussels, 22 December 2020.

For the Commission

The President

Ursula von der Leyen

ANNEX I U.K. Appointments of voting and non-voting members and their alternates of the Network Management Board

Chairperson:	No new appointment
1st Vice Chairperson:	No new appointment
2nd Vice Chairperson:	No new appointment

Airspace users:

	Voting members	Alternates
AIRE/ERA	No new appointment	Mrs Montserrat Barriga, Director General European Regions Airline Association (ERA)
A4E	Mr Achim Baumann, Policy Director at A4E	Mr Matthew Krasa, Head Of Public Affairs Ryanair
IATA	No new appointment	No new appointment
EBAA/IAOPA/EAS	No new appointment	No new appointment

Air navigation service providers per functional airspace block:

	Voting members	Alternates
BALTIC	No new appointment	No new appointment
BLUEMED	No new appointment	No new appointment
DANUBE	No new appointment	Mr Valentin CIMPUIERU, Director General Romanian Air Traffic Services Administration (ROMATSA)
DK-SE	No new appointment	No new appointment
FABCE	No new appointment	No new appointment
FABEC	Mr Dirk MAHNS, COO Deutsche Flugsicherung GmbH (DFS)	No new appointment
NEFAB	No new appointment	No new appointment
SOUTH-WEST	No new appointment	No new appointment
IRELAND	No new appointment	Mr Joe RYAN, Irish Aviation Authority

Airport operators:

	Voting members	Alternates
	No new appointment	Mr Ivan BASSATO, Airport Management Director Aeroporti di Roma Via dell’Aeroporto di Fiumicino, 320 Aeroporto ‘Leonardo da Vinci’ 00054 Fiumicino (Roma)
	No new appointment	Ms Isabelle BAUMELLE, Chief Operating Officer & Airline Marketing Director Société Aéroports de la Côte d’Azur BP 3331 06206 Nice Cedex 3 France

Military:

	Voting members	Alternates
Military Air Navigation Service Providers	No new appointment	No new appointment
Military airspace users	No new appointment	Col. YANN Pichavant, ATM Representative EU, NATO, EUROCONTROL French MOD

Chairperson of the Network Management Board:

	Non-voting member	Alternate
	No new appointment	No new appointment

European Commission:

	Non-voting member	Alternate
	Ms Christine BERG, Head of Unit Single European Sky DG MOVE European Commission	Mr Staffan EKWALL, Policy officer, DG MOVE European Commission

EFTA Surveillance Authority:

	Non-voting member	Alternate
	No new appointment	Ms Valgerður Guðmundsdóttir, Deputy Director, Internal Market affairs , EFTA Surveillance Authority

Network Manager:

	Non-voting member	Alternate
	No new appointment	No new appointment

Chairperson of the working group on operations (NDOP):

	Non-voting member	Alternate
	No new appointment	Mr József BAKOS, Head of ATS HungaroControl

Representatives of Air Navigation Service providers of associated countries:

	Non-voting members	Alternates
1 January 2021 - 31 December 2021	Mr Sitki Kagan ERTAS, Air Navigation Service provider of Turkey (DHMI)	Ms Sevda TURHAN, Air Navigation Service provider of Turkey (DHMI)
	Mr Maksim ET’HEMAJ, Director of Technical Division ALBCONTROL	Mr Dritan ISAKU, Director of Operational Division ALBCONTROL

Eurocontrol:

	Non-voting member	Alternate
	No new appointment	No new appointment

ANNEX II U.K. APPOINTMENTS OF PERMANENT MEMBERS AND THEIR ALTERNATES OF THE EUROPEAN AVIATION COORDINATION CRISIS CELL

Member States :

	Member	Alternate
	No new appointment	no new appointment

EFTA States:

	Member	Alternate
	No new appointment	No new appointment

European Commission:

	Member	Alternate
	Ms Christine BERG, Head of Unit Single European Sky DG MOVE European Commission	Mr Staffan EKWALL, Policy officer, DG MOVE European Commission

Agency:

	Member	Alternate
	No new appointment	No new appointment

Eurocontrol:

	Member	Alternate
	No new appointment	No new appointment

Network Manager:

	Member	Alternate
	No new appointment	Mr Steven Moore, EACCC Operations Manager Directorate Network Manager EUROCONTROL

Military:

	Member	Alternate
	Lieutenant-Colonel Frank Josten, German Military Aviation Authority	Colonel YANN Pichavant, French Military Aviation Authority

Air Navigation Service providers:

	Member	Alternate
	No new appointment	No new appointment

Aiport operators:

	Member	Alternate
	No new appointment	No new appointment

Airspace users:

	Member	Alternate
	No new appointment	No new appointment

(1)

OJ L 96, 31.3.2004, p. 20.

(2)

Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/123 of 24 January 2019 laying down detailed rules for the implementation of air traffic management (ATM) network functions and repealing Commission Regulation (EU) No 677/2011 (OJ L 28, 31.1.2019, p. 1).

(3)

Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/2168 of 17 December 2019 on the appointment of the chairperson and the members and their alternates of the Network Management Board and of the members and their alternates of the European Aviation Crisis Coordination Cell for the air traffic management network functions for the third reference period 2020-2024 (OJ L 328, 18.12.2019, p. 90).