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The studies are subject to a disclaimer and copyright. The studies have been carried out for the European Commission and express the opinions of the organisations having undertaken them. The views have not been adopted or in any way approved by the European Commission and should not be relied upon as a statement of the European Commission's views. The European Commission does not guarantee the accuracy of the information given in the studies, nor does it accept responsibility for any use made thereof.

Copyright in these studies is held by the European Union. Persons wishing to use the contents of these studies (in whole or in part) for purposes other than their personal use are invited to submit a written request to the following address: European Commission - Mobility and Transport DG - Library (DM28, 0/36) - B-1049 Brussels or by electronic form

Environment

March 2009

Environment: Lower NOx at Higher Altitudes. Policies to Reduce the Climate Impact of Aviation NOx Emission [2 MB]

October 2007

Environment: Aircraft Noise Exposure at and around Community Airports : Evaluation of the Effect of Measures to Reduce Noise [2 MB]

February 2005

Environment: Assessing the Economic Costs of Night Flight Restrictions [2 MB]

January 2005

Environment: Sound Noise Limits - Options for a uniform noise limiting scheme for EU airports [863 KB]

October 2004

Environment: Different aspects of noise limits at airports [3 MB]

November 2003

Environment: Current and Future Aircraft Noise Exposure at and around Community Airports [3 MB]

November 2002

Environment: Economic incentives to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions from air transport in Europe [3 MB]

Internal market

March 2009

Study on Consumer Protection against Aviation Bankruptcy [3 MB]
Executive Summary [565 KB]

January 2008

Internal market: Social developments in the EU air transport sector [46 KB]

August 2006

Internal market: Air and Rail competition and complementarity [6 MB]

May 2006

Internal market: Transparency of airline tickets [536 KB]

October 2003

Internal market: The potential impact of proposed amendments to Council Regulation 2299/89 with regard to Computerised Reservation Systems (Brattle Group and Norton Rose) [739 KB]

Functional Airspace Blocks

October 2008

Evaluation of Functional Airspace Block (FAB) initiatives and their contribution to performance Improvement

Final report pdf - 5 MB [5 MB]

Executive final report pdf - 3 MB [3 MB]

The report "Evaluation of Functional Airspace Block (FAB) initiatives and their contribution to performance improvement" has been produced by the independent Performance Review Commission (PRC) of Eurocontrol upon the request of the European Commission.

It provides a factual and independent assessment of the nine Functional Airspace Blocks (FAB) initiatives as of 1st July 2008. It identifies a number of key factual assessments and proposes several recommendations to Member States, the European Commission and ATM stakeholders to foster the creation of FABs with a view to improving ATM performance in Europe.

Traffic Management

December 2006

Evaluation of the impact of the Single European Sky (SES) initiative on ATM performance [2 MB]

January 2006

Functioning of the Internal Market

Part 1: Air Transport Infrastructures in the New EU Member States

This part looks in great detail at all airports open to commercial traffic in the "EU10+2" countries. It is composed of 12 individual country reports. All non restricted aspects have been taken into consideration: traffic data, financial information, contact information, technical data, history, past, present and future investments, etc. In order to show the physical look of each airport a comprehensive set of colour photos is provided.

Part 2: Land-use planning and management in the EU

This part is a comprehensive stocktaking exercise that explores and explains on the one hand how land-use planning and management is done in the various Member States and then explains how these systems are applied to the planning and land-use management around airports. Again 25 individual country reports and a conclusions report are provided. The latter brings together the lessons learned and provides summaries for each country.

July 2005

Pilot phase of the Community Air Passanger Reporting System [2 MB]

September 2005

Impact Assessment on the extension of EASA competences to ANS, ATM and Airports [695 KB]

December 2004

Provision of aeronautical information for the European Upper Flight Information Region (EUIR) [4 MB]

October 2004

Financing of air traffic management (ATM) to achieve the Single European Sky [3 MB]

October 2003

Implementation rules of economic regulation within the framework of the implementation of the single Sky [3 MB]

August 2003

Definition of the priorities for Single European Sky implementation rules related to the interoperability of the European Air Traffic Management Network [572 KB]

August 2003

Common requirements for the provision of air navigation services [937 KB]

June 2003

Review of air traffic control training requirements with a view to reinforcing harmonisation and increasing mobility [264 KB]

June 2003

Impediments to the recruitment of air traffic controllers [199 KB]

May 2003

Roadmap for the introduction of satellite navigation in European Air Traffic Management (ATM) [666 KB]

February 2003

Roadmap for the implementation of data link services in European Air Traffic Management (ATM) [6 MB]

January 2003

Benchmarking For Best Practices In Air Traffic Management in European Union candidate States [2 MB]

January 2003

Benchmarking For Best Practices In Air Traffic Management (European Community) [4 MB]

November 2002

Analysis of the Provision of Meteorological Services in the Framework of the Single European Sky [205 KB]

July 2002

Institutional issues concerning joint developments in the field of Flight Data Processing systems [4 MB]

May 2001

Regulation of airspace management and design [539 KB]

May 2001

Air Traffic Management Market Organisation [538 KB]

May 2001

Economic Regulation of Air Traffic Management Services [2 MB]

March 2001

Terminal Charges for Air Control Service [5 MB]

Airports

February 2009

Study on the Impact of Directive 96/67/EC on Ground Handling Services 1996-2007 [2 MB] ( Annex [826 KB] )

November 2006

Impact of the introduction of secondary trading at Community airports [3 MB]

October 2002

Quality and efficiency of ground handling services at EU airports as a result of the implementation of Council Directive 96/67 EC [2 MB]

International Aviation

February 2007

International Aviation: The European Common Aviation Area (ECAA) and the Western Balkans: Domestic Reforms and Regional Integration in Air Transport [203 KB]

Security

November 2012

Security: Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1082/2012 amending Commission Regulation (EU) No 185/2010 in respect of EU Aviation Security Validations [2 MB]

November 2010

Security: Legal situation regarding security of flights from third countries to the EU [434 KB]

November 2007

Security: Facilitation of Aviation Security Feasibility Study of “Registered Passenger” Concept [978 KB]

September 2004

Security: European Civil Aviation Security Financing [3 MB]

SESAR

June 2005

SESAR: Assessment of options, benefits and associated costs of the SESAME Programme for the definition of the future air traffic management system [3 MB]

Passenger Rights

February 2007

Passenger Rights: Review of Regulation 261/2004 [3 MB]