Eurocontrol

European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation
Formation1963[1]
HeadquartersBrussels, Belgium
Membership
41 member states
Budget
€505.8 million (as of 2014)[2]
Employees1,945 (as of 2014)[2]
Websiteeurocontrol.int

The European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation, commonly known as Eurocontrol (stylised EUROCONTROL), is an international organisation working to achieve safe and seamless air traffic management across Europe. Founded in 1963, Eurocontrol currently has 41 member states with headquarters in Brussels, Belgium. It has several local sites as well, including an Innovation Hub in Brétigny-sur-Orge, France, the Aviation Learning Centre (ALC) in Luxembourg, and the Maastricht Upper Area Control Centre (MUAC) in Maastricht, the Netherlands. The organisation employs approximately two thousand people, and operates with an annual budget in excess of half a billion euros.[2]

Although Eurocontrol is not an agency of the European Union, the EU has delegated parts of its Single European Sky regulations to Eurocontrol, making it the central organisation for coordination and planning of air traffic control for all of Europe.[3] The EU itself is a signatory of Eurocontrol and all EU member states are presently also members of Eurocontrol.[4] The organisation works with national authorities, air navigation service providers, civil and military airspace users, airports, and other organisations. Its activities involve all gate-to-gate air navigation service operations: strategic and tactical flow management, controller training, regional control of airspace, safety-proofed technologies and procedures, and collection of air navigation charges.

  1. ^ member states by accession date Archived 2017-03-16 at the Wayback Machine Eurocontrol.int.
  2. ^ a b c Eurocontrol: Annual Report 2014, p. 67.
  3. ^ Eurocontrol, SES mandate on Standardised European Rules of the Air (SERA) implementing rule for airspace – Part A - COMPLETED Archived 2017-08-03 at the Wayback Machine, 31 January 2011.
  4. ^ Eurocontrol, Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) on Eurocontrol Archived 2017-05-31 at the Wayback Machine, Retrieved: 4 May 2016.