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Background of IAO<\/h3>\n

The European Union has the goal to reform Air Traffic Management in Europe, so that the growing air traffic can continuously be managed in a safe, efficient and green environment. Therefore, the Single European Sky Initiative<\/a> (SES) was launched by the European Commission in 2004. Five years later the SES framework was adopted, which currently covers five pillars to achieve the objectives: the performance-based regulatory framework, the safety pillar, the technological contribution, the human factor pillar and the optimisation of airport infrastructure.<\/p>\n

SESAR <\/a>(Single European Sky ATM Research) is the technological pillar of the Single European Sky.\u00a0Within SESAR,\u00a0ATM solutions are defined, developed, validated and finally deployed, to improve Air Traffic Management (ATM) performance. Starting with a definition phase, the SESAR programme is continued by a development phase and will be followed by the deployment phase. The current SESAR 2020 Research and Innovation (R&I) Programme includes on the one hand research and innovation activities (Industrial research – IR)\u00a0in several areas . On the other hand, it also demonstrates technological and operational mature solutions, previously developed in SESAR, in a close to operational environment (Very Large Scale Demonstration \u2013 VLD).
\nWithin the framework of the Single European Sky (SES), the
European Air Traffic Management Master Plan<\/a> is the main planning tool for defining ATM modernisation priorities and ensuring that the SESAR Target Concept becomes reality. With the Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) no 716\/2014<\/a> the European Commission has defined\u00a0the establishment of a Pilot Common Project (PCP) supporting the implementation of the European Air Traffic Management Master Plan to provide the Union by 2030 with a high performing air traffic management infrastructure.<\/p>\n

The aim of this Pilot Common Project is to deploy in a timely, coordinated and synchronised way those ATM functionalities,\u00a0which are mature for implementation and\u00a0which contribute to the achievement of the essential operational changes identified in the European ATM Master Plan.<\/p>\n

The following six ATM functionalities (AF) have been identified for deployment and defined in operational, technical and geographical scope:<\/p>\n