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The History & Rationale

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PP Safety must always be foremost in our thinking and Air Traffic Management is at the heart of safety – in the air and on the ground.

We do have an excellent safety record in Europe, but the predicted traffic growth will also increase the risks – as was shown in recent accidents.

We must increase our efforts to enhance safety so as to maintain public confidence.

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SAFETY IS ATM’s KEYBUSINESS DRIVER

Cope with increasing demand

Maintain public confidence

Secure political support

Meet stakeholders’ needs

Capacity

Cost Efficiency

Environment

Maintain Safety

Business Drivers

O P T I M I S E

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Fatal accidents involving air transport(direct ATM contribution)

* Data source: PRU (2001 and 2002 still provisional) Pending reports for formal identification of causes, the interim reports indicate that ATC was a factor for the Milan and Ueberlingen accidents. The contribution of ATC will be

known once the final reports have been finalised.

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Action Group for ATM Safety (AGAS)

Established July 2002 Comprised:

States Regulators; Air Navigation Service Providers; Eurocontrol SRC; Eurocontrol Agency; Aircraft Operators; ATC, Airport & Airline Associations.

AGAS reported to the PC in April 2003.

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Objective of AGAS ATM Safety Overview study

To deliver a short term, initial, overview of safety related issues of European ATM;

Two central questions were examined:

Does the current achieved level of safety across ECAC meets the expectations?

In the light of existing and planned safety efforts, is it likely that the future level of safety across ECAC will meet expectations based on forecast traffic growth?

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High Traffic Growth

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Maturity of ATM Safety Management System in Europe

Two issues stood out : Commitment and Leadership; Resources.

Solving those issues is essential in making progress.

The AGAS Overview Study found that:

Implementation of Safety Management System (SMS) in most ECAC States still has a long way to go;

A number of ANSPs with low SMS maturity will have an increased safety risk due to high traffic growth;

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Overall AGAS Conclusions

Safety regulation & management frameworks unevenly developed;

Sustained delivery of capacity depends on sustained investment in ATM safety;

Actions to be sustained over future years;

8 high priority areas identified;

5 high priority areas require immediate focus.

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Safety related human resources in ATM*; Incident reporting and data sharing*; ACAS*; Ground-based safety nets; Runway safety*; Enforcement of ESARRs and implementation

monitoring *; Awareness of safety matters; Safety and human factors research & development

(R&D).

* Areas of Immediate Focus

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Eight Improvement Areas

Safety related resources in ATM

ANSPs to allocate sufficient resources to deal with safety matters;

EUROCONTROL to provide training and support;

ANSPs to increase efforts to eliminate ATCO shortages.

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Eight Improvement Areas

Incident reporting and data sharing

ANSPs to share safety information with EUROCONTROL in order to allow prioritisation of major risk areas;

Introduction of a fair reporting culture across Europe.

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Eight Improvement Areas

Airborne Collision Avoidance System (ACAS)

ANSPs to ensure that ACAS training for controllers is in accordance with EUROCONTROL ACAS guidance;

Aircraft Operators to ensure that ACAS training for flight crew is in accordance with ICAO performance based training objectives;

EUROCONTROL to progress the feasibility of downlinking ACAS Resolution Advise.

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Eight Improvement Areas

Ground-based safety nets

EUROCONTROL to identify best practice in regard to ground-based safety nets;

EUROCONTROL to elaborate and, where necessary, validate the systematic introduction of ground-based safety nets;

EUROCONTROL to make a case to ICAO for a Minimum Equipment List (MEL) for ground-based ATM equipment, if appropriate.

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Eight Improvement Areas

Runway Safety

All stakeholders ( ANSPs, National Aviation Safety Authorities, Aircraft Operators, Airport Operators and others ) to implement the “Action Plan for Runway Incursion Prevention”;

One of the actions from the plan: Set up of Local Runway Safety Teams

with involvement of the different players.

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Eight Improvement Areas

Enforcement of ESARRs and monitoring of their implementation:

Establishment of a national framework for safety regulation.

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Eight Improvement Areas

Awareness of Safety Matters

ANSPs to ensure that a full Safety Management System (SMS) is in place;

EUROCONTROL to provide adequate resources and guidance to support ANSPs in implementing SMS;

The launch of campaigns to heighten awareness of safety related requirements.

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Eight Improvement Areas

Safety research and development

Study how the process for learning from incidents can be improved ( “early-warning” system );

Risk assessment on human error and recovery; Impact of increasing traffic complexity, combined

with advanced technology on the work of ATCOs; Increase co-ordination of European ATM Safety

R&D to deliver added values safety solutions.

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AGAS Final Report - April 2003

AGAS Final Report : Strategic Safety Action Plan

(SSAP) European Action Plan for the

Prevention of Runway Incursions Provisional Council & Commission

Approved Action Plans. AGAS task completed and group

dissolved

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IMPLEMENTATION TRACKING & MONITORING ofSTRATEGIC ACTION PLAN

Tracking & Monitoring: A tracking & monitoring system has been set

up: Tracking of all Work Package’s implementation

against the responsible body (EUROCONTROL, States & ANSPs);

As far as possible the ECIP/LCIP reporting system will be used to gather information on implementation;

LCIP works on an annual cycle, therefore progress reports on some WPs may need to be sought.

Reporting Regular reports will be made to the Provisional

Council; Stakeholder Progress Reports will be issued

approximately 3 times a year.

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Conclusions

Uneven development of ATM safety frameworks

Early signs of progress

A long way to go

SSAP is a call to action

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