EUROCONTROL aims to create a seamless Air Traffic Management (ATM) system across Europe. This goal is crucial for addressing the current and future challenges in the air transport sector. These challenges include managing the expected growth in air traffic while ensuring safety, reducing costs, and protecting the environment. To achieve this, EUROCONTROL develops, coordinates, and implements short-, medium-, and long-term ATM strategies in collaboration with various stakeholders. These stakeholders include national authorities, air navigation service providers, civil and military airspace users, airports, industry experts, and European institutions.
EUROCONTROL’s core activities cover all aspects of air navigation services, from strategic flow management to controller training. They also focus on regional airspace control and the creation of advanced, safe technologies and procedures. Additionally, they handle the collection of air navigation charges. The development of ATM is organized under the EATM program, which outlines initial strategies and roadmaps for improving ATM performance in Europe. This program leads to the management of various implementation initiatives and service provisions.
EATM supports the Single European Sky (SES) concept and SESAR, the ATM Research program. It focuses on meeting the needs of airspace users and service providers for better efficiency, transparency, and clarity. The performance enhancement activities in European ATM follow a top-down, performance-driven approach, setting measurable targets in key areas.
The Provisional Council of EUROCONTROL has established several performance objectives. These include improving ATM safety while accommodating traffic growth, aligning capacity with air transport demand to minimize delays, enhancing the efficiency of the ATM network, and strengthening the sector’s contributions to aviation security and environmental goals.
