SESAR Joint Undertaking

SESAR Joint Undertaking is the European public-private partnership that is managing the development phase of the Single European Sky ATM Research (SESAR) Programme that will give Europe a high-performance Air Traffic Management infrastructure which will enable the safe and environmentally friendly development of air transport. The objectives of this programme are, by 2020, to save:

on average per flight.

Overview

SESAR aims at developing the new generation air traffic management system capable of ensuring the safety and fluidity of air transport worldwide over the next 30 years.

Legal basis

Taking into account the number of actors involved and the financial resources and technical expertise needed, a legal entity, the SESAR Joint Undertaking, was created under Community law [1][2] on 27 February 2007 to manage the funds assigned to the SESAR project during its Development Phase.

Funding and Budget

The total estimated cost of the development phase of SESAR is € 2.1 billion, to be shared equally between the European Community, Eurocontrol and the industry ((€350 million European Commission, €350 Trans-European Transport Network Executive Agency), €700 million Eurocontrol, €700 million industry).

Members

The SESAR Joint Undertaking was created under European Community law on 27 February 2007 with Eurocontrol and the European Commission as founding members. In addition to the two founding members, 15 organisations have signed a membership agreement with the SESAR JU. The programme can such profit from the expertise of airport operators, air navigation service providers (ANSPs), ground and aerospace manufacturing industry, aircraft manufacturers, and airborne equipment manufacturers:

Associate partners With the endorsement of 13 associate partners in July 2010, the SESAR Joint Undertaking included additional companies with very different profiles and expertise from around the world in the SESAR work programme. Those are:

Programme

The SESAR programme will be executed by the 16 members and represents about 300 projects grouped into Work Packages:

SESAR Release Early 2011, SESAR issued "SESAR Release 2011" [3] a document presenting to the aviation community new or improved air traffic management solutions at a preindustrialisation stage ready for deployment. Concretely, 29 validation exercises conducted by the SESAR members all over Europe will be completed by end 2011. Those exercises will cover the areas of efficient and green terminal airspace operations, the initial 4D trajectory, end to end traffic synchronisation, as well as integrated and collaborative network management.

SESAR JU staff

The SESAR Joint Undertaking is composed of around 40 staff, the executive director is Claude Chêne (interim since 1/9-13). (Previous CEO Patrick Ky is now at EASA)

References

  1. ↑ COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 219/2007 on the establishment of a Joint Undertaking to develop the new generation European air traffic management system (SESAR)
  2. ↑ COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) 1361/2008, amending Council Regulation 219/2007 to make SJU a "full" European Community Body as of January 1st 2009
  3. ↑ SESAR Release 2011

- Single European Sky (SES) - the European ATM Master Plan Portal

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