The European Safety Programme for Air Traffic Management (ESP) was launched by EUROCONTROL on February 28, 2006. Its goal is to enhance safety in European Air Traffic Management (EATM) across the 42 states of the European Civil Aviation Conference (ECAC). The target is to reach a common minimum safety level by December 2008. The ESP consists of five key areas of focus. These include the implementation and support of European safety legislation and regulations, incident reporting and data sharing, risk assessment and mitigation in daily operations, system safety defenses, and enhancing safety management practices.
