EUROCONTROL
Annual Report 2008
EUROCONTROL
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04 EUROCONTROL and its 38 Member States
06 Message from the President of the Provisional Council
08 Foreword by the Director General
10 Senior management and organisational structure
12 2008 highlights
14 EUROCONTROL: a partnering organisation
16 Safety
26 Capacity
38 Efficiency and cost-effectiveness
48 Environment
54 Civil-military ATM coordination
60 The Single European Sky
66 SESAR
68 Human resources
70 Corporate governance
72 Financial information
83 Glossary
Table of contents
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EUROCONTROL, the European Organisation for the Safety
of Air Navigation, is an intergovernmental organisation
made up of 38 Member States and the European
Community and has as its primary objective the
development of a seamless, pan-European air
traffic management (ATM) system.
Originally founded in 1960 as a civil-military Organisation
to deal with air traffic control for civil and military users
in the upper airspace of its six founding European
Member States (Belgium, Germany, France,
Luxembourg, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom),
EUROCONTROL has developed into a vital European
repository of ATM excellence, both leading and
supporting ATM improvements across Europe.
Today, together with its partners, EUROCONTROL is
committed to building a Single European Sky that will
deliver the ATM performance required for the twenty-first
century and beyond.
Working in partnership
To achieve its mission, EUROCONTROL works closely with
Member States, air navigation service providers, civil and
military airspace users, airports, the aerospace industry,
professional organisations, intergovernmental
organisations and the European institutions.
EUROCONTROL
The European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation
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38 Member
States
Albania
Armenia
Austria
Belgium
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bulgaria
Croatia
Cyprus
the Czech Republic
Denmark
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Hungary
Ireland
Italy
Lithuania
Luxembourg
the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
Malta
Moldova
Monaco
Montenegro
the Netherlands
Norway
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Serbia
Slovakia
Slovenia
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Turkey
Ukraine
the United Kingdom
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2008 was something of a tumultuous year with
political upheaval, natural disasters, a sharp increase
then decline in fuel prices – which affected the air
transport industry considerably – and the onset of a
global recession.
Yet there were positive points for air traffic
management and EUROCONTROL.
SESAR
Spring saw a high note with the acceptance of the
SESAR Master Plan and Work Programme, an event
which marked the formal opening of the Development
Phase, to be led by the SESAR Joint Undertaking,
in coordination with public and private partners.
Efforts to align SESAR with NextGen, the United States’
air traffic management modernisation programme,
were maintained.
Traffic and delays
There was less good news on the delay front. In 2008,
air traffic flow management delays – caused by air
traffic control capacity, staffing, weather and
aerodrome capacity – increased by 10%, to 2.3 minutes
in 2008 compared with 2.1 in 2007.
53% of all delays were attributed to airlines, with 17%
caused by airports, 13% by en-route and 10%
by weather.
In 2008, the total number of flights in Europe was 10
million – an increase of 0.5% compared with 2007,
the first time in five years that the increase in the
number of flights was so low.
Major European markets, in particular Italy, the UK and
Spain saw significant declines in traffic (-2.7, -1.7% and
-2.1% respectively). Eastern Europe, with Poland in
particular, and Turkey continued to experience overall
growth in traffic (Turkey: 8.3% and Poland: 9.8%).
Message from the President
of the Provisional Council
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Growth – now and in the future
There were clear indications that growth in the air
transport industry was slowing down – possibly even
stopping altogether for a while. But the third
“Challenges of Growth” study published in 2008,
containing EUROCONTROL’s forecasts, indicated that
growth will return in time.
The experts who compiled the study are optimistic
　
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