Role and Work Programme

Our Role in a Changing Environment

The SRC’s mandate was originally defined by the ECAC Institutional Strategy, the EUROCONTROL Revised Convention and the ECAC ATM Strategy for 2000+.Currently, the principal features of SRC's current business environment include:

• the European Commission’s (EC) Single European Sky (SES) Initiative (incl. the SES I and SES II packages), providing the key direction for legislative development, as well as technical development through SESAR;
• the extension of the scope of the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) into ATM, ANS and airports;
• continuing advances in the introduction of CNS/ATM technologies;
• continuing evolution in safety oversight techniques and approaches.

The above context needs a defined and documented collaboration and cooperation between the various key players, founded upon a number of fundamental principles:

• continued focus on the maintenance and improvement of European ATM safety;
• maximum use of safety developments already in place;
• optimise the use of very scarce resources in the field of ATM/ANS safety;
• an ECAC-wide safety approach towards aviation supporting the European Community and EUROCONTROL Member States where EC legislation does not apply, as well as civil-military coordination

SRC’s Business Plan and Work Programme

The major directions to the SRC are reflected in the SRC’s Business Plan (ref. SRC Doc 40) and the Work Programme (ref. SRC Doc 3) identifies the actions necessary to achieve the SRC‘s objectives within the strategy set by the Business Plan, and remains the baseline for the tactical management of the SRU’s work.

• SRC Document 40 - SRC Business Plan 2008-2012 (pdf)
• SRC Document 3 - Work Programme of the Safety Regulation Commission (pdf)