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Civil-Military Co-ordination in Air Traffic Management |
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Institutional set-up clarified |
EUROCONTROL is an inter-governmental civil-military organisation dedicated to the efficient and safe management of airspace for both civil and military users. Ensuring successful coordination and co-operation between the civil and military aviation partners is therefore an important element of EUROCONTROL's work. Moreover, the Single European Sky regulations have reinforced the need for such a coordinator.
At the highest institutional level, the General Assembly is responsible for the formulation and approval of the Organisation's general policy. It is composed of the Ministers of Transport and the Ministers of Defence.
The Council, implementing the General Assembly's decisions and supervising the Agency's work, is composed of representatives at the level of Directors General of Civil Aviation. States may appoint several representatives in order to allow the interests of both civil aviation and national defence to be represented, but shall have only a single voting right.
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Civil/Military Interface Standing Committee |
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The Revised Convention created the Civil/Military Interface Standing Committee (CMIC) as an advisory body to the EUROCONTROL Council to gain early benefits from the enhanced level of civil/military collaboration. CMIC is composed of civil and military representatives at senior executive level.
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CMIC |
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In 2007, EUROCONTROL established the Military ATM Board (MAB) in response to the need to effectively involve military stakeholders in the decision-making process. It is a body where national military ATM authorities coordinate their views towards a common pan-European position for further civil-military coordination in the decision-making process at European level. The MAB is composed of national military ATM directors, senior military officers in equivalent positions and the Head of DSS/CM. The MAB concentrates on strategic and policy issues. A major role of the MAB is to fulfil the State’s declaration to the SES framework regulation by accommodating military cooperation and coordination with a pan-European dimension.
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MAB |
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Military Harmonisation Group |
The Military Harmonisation Group (MilHaG) was originally created by CMIC as its military support group before the establishment of the MAB. It is composed of military State representatives. Its mission is to define, develop and promote harmonised European military positions on CNS/ATM matters at strategic and political level in order to improve co-ordination within the military community for the benefit of the entire ATM community. By decision of CMIC/33 and MAB/05, the MilHaG now reports to the MAB.
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