Calling notice 2008

IFATSEA 41st General Assembly, Skopje, FYROM

European Regional Meetings

04 and 07 October 2011Draft Agenda_______________________________________________________________________IFATSEA European Regional Meeting, Lisbon, Portugal06 to 07 May 2011

International

Tervuursesteenweg 303Federation of

1820 SteenokkerzeelAir Traffic Safety

BelgiumElectronics Associations

Tel:+32 2 2062880

Fax:+32 2 2062881President:

Executive Secretary: Daniel Boulet

Dany Van der Biestpresident@ifatsea.org exec.sec@ifatsea.orgDirector European Region:

Thorsten Wehe

thorstenwehe@t-online.de

Date: 04 Oktober 2011IFATSEA 41st General Assembly, Skopje, FYROM03 to 07 October 2011European Regional MeetingsDraft MinutesTuesday 04 October 2011, 1500 to 1730Start 15:00

1. Welcome1.1. Welcome and Meeting ObjectivesMr. Thorsten Wehe welcomes all participants to the Special EG Meeting during the IFATSEA GA 2011 in Skopje.

1.2. Election of Vice Chairman for this MeetingMr. Thorsten Wehe proposes Mr. Costas Christoforou (Cyprus) as the Vice Chairman for the meeting. There are no votes against.1.3. Election of responsible person for the minutesMr. Thorsten Wehe proposes Mr. Thomas Schuster (Germany) as the Keeper of the minutes. There are no votes against1.4. Present AffiliatesSee list in Annex.1.5. ApologiesWe received apologies for absence from Sweden and Turkey.

1.6. Adoption of the agendaAgenda is adopted.1.7. Adoption of the minutes of Regional Meeting 2011 in Lisbon

Minutes are adopted.1.8. Review of Eurogroup Report to Assembly 2011No remarks on the report.1.9. Activities Report by Director EuropeNo remarks on the report.2. Report on National Developments

2.1. Albania

Not present

2.2. AustriaNot present

2.3. BelgiumBelgocontrol, the Belgian ANSP, currently suffers from financial problems due to the economical crisis but also because of an old Belgian Law. In 1989 a picture was taken of the regionally provided services (ATSEPs, ATCOs, CNS/ATM equipment) and a law was made which stated that these services, and only these services, are to be provided without free of charge by Belgocontrol. Conversely, all additional services that were introduced after 1989 (i.e. new equipment, additional ATSEPs, ...) were/are to be paid. At Brussels airport, taxes were not increased since 2003 due a binding agreement. Up to now Belgocontrol was cross-subsidizing this loss of money by its Enroute income resulting in a very high Enroute Unit rate. However, since 2012, the European commission forbids the cross-subsidizing arrangements, leaving Belgocontrol with an annual loss. Currently this point needs to be politically tackled, but with little to no progress up to now as Belgian politics are without government since more than 300 days now. The framework for a technical school was established to comply the ATSEP initial training specifications and System/Equipment rating training guidelines. ATSEP Belgium is currently involved to make sure both instructors and students will be able to have sufficient means to prepare courses, or to study for exams. There should be a training centre erected in Belgocontrol, but there wont be more employees. So the additional work have to be done by the present staff.

There will be implemented a kind of a certificate. The license will definitely not come, but the certificate brings it near to it.

Belgocontrol plans to reduce technical service, ATSEPbelgium maybe has to find against that.

Financial problems due to a yearly loss of 19 Mio. .

2.4. Bulgaria

Not present

2.4. Croatia Croatian ANSP launched numerous modernization large-scale projects (DP, COMM, MET, NAV..) which will involve almost all ATSEPs Majority of the projects are now in definition or procurement phase. Due to full membership in COOPANS, it is scheduled the new ATM system will be operational in 2014 From early this year the new ATSEP regulation is in force. It is aligned with the Eurocontrol CCC training documents. Our present training system shall be fully adopted within next 2 years ICAO ATSEP training manual was used to extent the ATSEP functions ANSP is fully involved in FAB CE developments. FAB Agreement has been finally signed in May this year. New implementation phase projects have been launched There is a clear lack of ATSEP staff and so far there are no plans for extensive hiring to fill in the present gaps Same financial problems as Belgium2.5. Cyprus New projects are being implemented and/or completed: SAR is supported

Radar stations are updated on Mode S (by Thales)

ILS upgrade

Training is ongoing

There is a discussion ongoing with the Minister of Transport about licensing of ATSEPs

Human resources: lack of ATSEPs because of retirement FAB Bluemed is ongoing and are being involved into the social dialogue Worries: How will BlueMed affect the jobs? ATSEP wages were cut by 10% due to the economical crisis2.6. Czech Republic ATSEP training baseline established to training new ATSEP. Internal training manual created. New projects recently launched

Mode S Radar

Just Culture project

To become a ATSEP one has to study 6 month, after that he has to pass the 1st exam. To get the license level 1, 7-12 passed exams are needed. License level 1 = basic knowledge

License level 2 = experienced ATSEP

Czech ANSP wants to reduce the nightshift personnel by cutting of the Level 1 ATSEP. This means a bisection of stuff. This is a safety critical issue, because the Level 2 ATSEP has to leave SMC to fix problems during night time. New Executive Board

2.7. Denmark

Not present2.8. Finland ANSP owned 100% by state

25 airports

Reduced ACC from two to one 67 certified ATSEPS, overall 90 persons technical staff Certification system is working

New training centre for ATCOs and ATSEPs

Helsinki has new A-SMGCS and Wide Area MLAT

140 people (incl. 6 ATSEPs) fired from FINOVIA due to economical crisis

Safety Manager and CEO fired last month2.9. France Program called 4flight upset to update the systems

Works slowly, but works

SESAR works well

Training

FABEC works not so well, because the employees were not involved. Government wants civil workers without a right to go on strike.

ANSP wants to reduce the number of ATSEPs, it is carefully monitored by the Union.

ATSEPs are keyplayers, because you cannot improve and update ATM Systems without the expertise of ATSEPs

2.10. GermanySee presentation in Annex for more details.2.11. Greece Human resources: Many employees retire, this means reducing the staff by 30% Update on Bluemed on Friday2.12. Iceland

Not present

2.13. Ireland Update from Mode C to Mode S New voice switches

16 new ATSEPs trained

61 ATSEPs in Ireland

Training scheme according CCC implemented and working fine

Competence assessment leads to certificate but currently it is no license.2.14. Italy Technical projects are ongoing or implemented

Self briefing of flight plans for pilots is implemented Courses are based on Eurocontrol Training Manual

Refresher Trainings are implemented

Regulator submitted record on training methods of ATSEP Bluemed update on Friday

Enough human resources

Reporting system requires different reporting for different branches (safety, security, technical, operational). A system covering all branches is missing. EGNOS certified in March 2011 and operates like ANSP

EGNOS operators are not recognized as ATSEP and not licensed

2.15. Lithuania MLAT implementation ongoing

Update of Data Network

Lithuania and Poland would like to create an own FAB, called Baltic FAB. An Agreement is to be signed and now will go into government All 90 ATSEP are licensed and trained by Eurocontrol

Average age of ATSEPs to high, problems ahead

Operational Contingency Centre available but not in daily use. Could overtake operations and parts of Poland as well.2.16. FYROM Several technical projects are ongoing (e.g. new weather observation systems)

New training plan; ATSEPs are twice a year receiving training (inside training but also by external manufacturer) Still no decision on FAB but maybe at the end of this year Enough ATSEPs for staffing technical department for the moment See Annex for more details.2.17. MaltaNot present2.18. Norway Two new radar sensors Remote-Tower-Centre build

Entry point north

Iceland left NEFAB Increasing average age of ATSEPs

ATSEP training implemented2.19. Portugal

See Annex for more details.2.20. Russia

Not present

2.21. Slovakia

Not present

2.22. Slovenia

Not present

2.23. Spain In 2010, the Spanish government started a process of liberalisation of the provision of ATS Services in all the Airports, by means of the Royal Decrees 1/2010, 9/2010 and subsequent legislation.

AENA will keep the ATS services provision for "en route" and approach (as well as CNS and AIS).

AENA (ANSP) has been forced, by Royal Decree 13/2010, to transfer the property of all the air traffic control towers and all the CNS equipment located in, and in the vicinity of the airports (if are used only as support to landing) to the newly created company (by means of the same Royal Decree) that will manage the airports in Spain: AENA Airports SA (100% AENA owned initially, but that will be sold until the 51%). This means that all the ATSEP's working actually in the different Spanish airports, will manage systems that now are property of each airport, by means of a contract with AENA. Initially, there is a three-year contract with AENA Airports SA. After this period, any CNS certified provider may be contracted by any airport, probably under completely different conditions to those currently maintained AENA, so ATSEP's working conditions can be affected.

As far as known, it seems that ATSEP's working in ACC's and TACC's will be unaffected in this initial stages, but if in short term any CNS provider (either Spanish or from outside Spain) requests a certification or accreditation to provide any of the CNS services in Spain cant be foreseen.

This situation can be easily extrapolated to any other European country. This is why I believe that we must have a common position about this situation.

The past week, Ferronats, a company created by Ferrovial (Spanish Construction Company) and NATS, has been appointed as ATS service providers in 10 control towers: Alicante, Valencia, Ibiza, Sevilla, Vigo, La Corua, Jerez, Melilla, Sabadell and Cuatro Vientos (Madrid). SAERCO was appointed in other 3 control towers in Canary Islands.

Despite its about ATS services, maybe in the next future there will be some cases like this, but with CNS services and Spanish ATSEPs can be in the middle of crossing interests by our respective providers.

IFATSEA must try to produce a sort of "minimums template" in order to preserve the interests of ATSEPs professionals concerning labour and professional conditions, minimums that can't be trespassed by any CNS provider.

Thats the Spanish proposal to discussion during the Eurogroup Meeting

For information about FAB SW Portugal/Spain see presentation in Annex2.24. Sweden

Not present

2.25. Switzerland 230 ATSEP, 50% member in SATTA Capacity of airspace increased

Problem: Strong local currency and weak . Wages are paid in Swiss Franc, but the fares for ATC are in .

Very good negotiations for a new contract of labour: automatic increase of wages, two more holidays, several benefits. Valid for four years. Modernisation of ATM Systems:

Virtual centre

Harmonization of the two ACCs

Implementation of Mode S

Implementation of a ATCO (( Pilot Datalink

In the night switching from two ACCs to just one ACC

Maybe role model for FABEC

License is written down, but because the NSA cannot deliver a training scheme, no license is implemented. Lack of ATSEPs, but situation gets better slowly

Reporting system is working

Border triangle centre (France, Swiss, Germany) project failed2.26. TurkeyNot present

2.27. Ukraine Is member of EUROCONTROL, but not of the European Commission, which puts Ukraine in a special position (same situation as Norway)

Ukrainian ANSP acts as observer within SESAR and have decided to implement SESAR Due to the upcoming 2012 European Football Championship, CNS/ATM equipment is being improved rapidly

Ukrainian CAA doesnt have enough resources to support all the project work. ANSP with 5 ACC centres

1300 ATSEPs

No license

Competence scheme, training complying with CCC/ESARR5 is in place and now rules are implemented Now it is up to CAA to approve FAB implementation in progress2.28. United Kingdom Splitted up in 2 separate businesses (Enroute and Airports)

New technical projects (EFD-electronic flight data)

Social negotiations are burden due to economical crisis Party public/private company which provided dividend to stakeholders but not to staff Already 51% privatized Government are investigating further privatizations

Outsourcing of software development Changes in airspace design will affect ATSEPs

No license so far

New intake of ATSEPs of about 3 per year Age profile high

Christmas bonus (20 per head) has been cancelled due to economic crisis2.29.Kosovo (Observer)

20 ATSEPs in organisation Not licensed

Projects in progress: New Radar Sensors

New Voice switches

New Voice recorder

Result: changes on training manuals and competence schemes. Chance to implement license

Interests: different ways of ATSEP licensing

17:30 End of Meeting No. 1

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