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 functions2, and in particular Articles 18 and 19 thereof,
Whereas:
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.
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) 2019/21683.
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.
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.
This decision should enter into force as a matter of urgency before the beginning of the period covered by the appointments in question.
The measures provided for in this Decision are in accordance with the opinion of the Single Sky Committee,
HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION: