Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 716/2014Show full title

Article 1 U.K. Subject matter and scope

1. This Regulation sets up the first common project, hereinafter referred to as the ‘Pilot Common Project’. The Pilot Common Project identifies a first set of ATM functionalities to be deployed in timely, coordinated and synchronised way so as to achieve the essential operational changes stemming from the European ATM Master Plan.

2. This Regulation shall apply to the European Air Traffic Management Network (EATMN) and the systems for air navigation services identified in Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 552/2004. It shall apply to the stakeholders identified in the Annex to this Regulation.

Article 2 U.K. Definitions

For the purpose of this Regulation, the definitions set out in Article 2 of Regulation (EC) No 549/2004 and in Article 2 of Implementing Regulation (EU) No 409/2013 shall apply.

In addition, the following definitions shall apply:

(1)

‘Airport — Collaborative Decision Making (A-CDM)’ means a process in which decisions related to Air Traffic Flow and Capacity Management (hereinafter: ‘ATFCM’) at airports are made based on interaction between operational stakeholders and other actors involved in ATFCM and which aims at reducing delays, improving the predictability of events and optimising the utilisation of resources;

(2)

‘Airport Operations Plan (AOP)’ means a single, common and collaboratively agreed rolling plan available to all airport stakeholders whose purpose is to provide common situational awareness and to form the basis upon which stakeholder decisions relating to process optimisation can be made;

(3)

‘Network Operations Plan (NOP)’ means the plan, including its supporting tools, developed by the Network Manager in coordination with the operational stakeholders to organise its operational activities in the short and medium term in accordance with the guiding principles of the Network Strategic Plan. For the European route network design-specific part of the Network Operations Plan, it includes the European Route Network Improvement Plan;

(4)

‘to operate an ATM functionality’ means that the ATM functionality in question is put in service and that it is fully used in daily operations;

(5)

‘deployment target date’ means the date by which the deployment of the ATM functionality in question is to be completed and fully used operationally.

Article 3 U.K. ATM functionalities and their deployment

1. The Pilot Common Project shall comprise the following ATM functionalities:

(a) Extended Arrival Management and Performance Based Navigation in the High Density Terminal Manoeuvring Areas;

(b) Airport Integration and Throughput;

(c) Flexible Airspace Management and Free Route;

(d) Network Collaborative Management;

(e) Initial System Wide Information Management;

(f) Initial Trajectory Information Sharing.

Those ATM functionalities are described in the Annex.

2. The operational stakeholders identified in the Annex and the Network Manager, shall deploy the ATM functionalities referred to in paragraph 1 and implement the associated operational procedures allowing their seamless operation in accordance with the Annex and Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 409/2013. The military operational stakeholders shall deploy those ATM functionalities only to the extent necessary to comply with Regulation (EC) No 552/2004, point 4 of Part A of Annex II.

Article 4 U.K. Reference and supporting material

The Commission shall publish on its website the following reference and supporting material for the deployment of the ATM functionalities referred to in Article 3(1):

(a)

an indicative list of supporting material for the standardisation and industrialisation phase to be delivered by the SESAR Joint Undertaking including delivery target dates;

(b)

an indicative roadmap with respect to standardisation and regulation needs, including references to implementing rules and Community specifications developed in accordance with Article 3 and Article 4 of the Regulation (EC) No 552/2004, and associated delivery target dates;

(c)

the global cost-benefit analysis on which Pilot Common Project stakeholder endorsement is considered.

Article 5 U.K. Monitoring

The monitoring by the Commission provided for in Article 6 of Implementing Regulation (EU) No 409/2013 shall be performed in particular through the following planning and reporting instruments:

(a)

the European ATM Master Plan planning and implementation reporting mechanisms;

(b)

the Network Strategy Plan and Network Operations Plan;

(c)

the performance plans, in particular through the information specified in point (c) of Article 11(3), Article 11(5), and point 2 of Annex II to Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 390/2013(1);

(d)

the reporting tables on air navigation costs, in particular the information specified in line 3.8 of table 1 and point 2(m) of Annex II and lines 2.1 to 2.4 of table 3 of Annex VII to Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 391/2013(2);

(e)

the monitoring of the implementation projects referred to in Article 10 of Implementing Regulation (EU) No 409/2013 by the deployment manager;

(f)

the functional airspace blocks planning and implementation reporting mechanisms;

(g)

the planning and implementation reporting mechanisms related to standardisation.

Article 6 U.K. Review

The Commission shall review this Regulation in light of: the information and advice received from the Deployment Manager, in accordance with Article 9(2)(e) and having undertaken the coordination and consultation required by Articles 9 of Implementing Regulation (EU) No 409/2013; the information obtained through the monitoring referred to in Article 5; and, the technological developments in ATM, presenting the results of the review to the Single Sky Committee.

The review shall address in particular the following aspects:

(a)

the progress in the deployment of the ATM functionalities referred to in Article 3(1);

(b)

the use of existing incentives for the implementation of the Pilot Common Project and the possibilities of new incentives;

(c)

the contribution of the Pilot Common Project to the achievement of the performance targets and the implementation of flexible use of airspace;

(d)

the actual costs and benefits resulting from the deployment of ATM functionalities referred to in Article 3(1), including the identification of any local or regional negative impact for any specific category of operational stakeholder;

(e)

the need for adapting the Pilot Common Project, in particular its personal and geographical scope and the deployment target dates set out in the Annex;

(f)

progress in the development of reference and supporting material referred to in Article 4.

The Commission shall initiate the first review at the latest 18 months from the approval of the deployment programme.

Article 7 U.K. Entry into force

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

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 27 June 2014.

For the Commission

The President

José Manuel Barroso