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to respond to the challenge presented by the Single Sky and play a key role in the implementation of Community objectives, EUR0C0NTR0L is now going through an important transformation process. This in¬volves new governance arrangements which I consider highly significant and could make possible future EUR0C0NTR0L contribu¬tions to some major activities such as the implementation of a European performance scheme and the setting up of a new Single Sky network management function.
Last but not least, EUR0C0NTR0L is, together with the European Commission, a co-founder of the SESAR programme which provides the technological dimen¬sion of the Single Sky. SESAR entered the development phase in 0ctober 2008 and is now channelling ATM research and development efforts through a single
programme ensuring a synergy of financial and intellectual efforts. The ATM Master Plan has to provide the road map for the development and deployment phases of the SESAR programme.
Present and future challenges of the aviation industry will be responded to by a continued common vision to be shared by the European Community, EUR0C0NTR0L, airspace users, airports, and air navigation service providers. I am confident that it will allow all users, whether commercial,
governmental, business, general or military, to benefit from the highest levels of
safety and operational flexibility at highly competitive costs, and serve as a vector for the development of these benefits and the technological leap they entail beyond Europe's borders. To this end, the deepest co-operation between EUR0C0NTR0L and the European Commission will be crucial.
Economic benefits
of aviation
Anne Paylor highlights aviation as a crucial economic generator
Despite the publica
tion of two reports last year — one by the UK's Sustainable Development Commission (SDC) and the other by the World Wide Fund for Nature — that could be interpreted as casting doubt on the economic and social benefits of aviation, the aviation community itself resolutely insists there is indisputable evidence that the industry is a major economic generator.
The report by the SDC, entitled Break¬ing the Holding Pattern and published in 2008, suggested that the link between aviation and economic benefit had yet to be proved. It said that there was some dispute about "baseline evidence on
the economic, social, and environmen¬tal impacts of aviation and the various assumptions around this evidence". It recommended the establishment of agreed measures for assessing the cost and benefits of aviation.
Paula Leal de Matos, an economist with EUR0C0NTR0L, acknowledges that there are significant differences among the estimates of economic impact of aviation obtained by different stud¬ ies. Agreed methods and measures for assessing this economic impact are needed. However, even taking the most conservative estimates, the benefits of aviation clearly outweigh its costs and she warns that, in the current economic downturn, it is crucial that investment in aviation be sustained: "At a time when financial resources are scarce and economies are depressed, investment in aviation infrastructure should not
be forgotten, as we'll be slowing down a powerful engine for the economy and for social wellbeing. Constraining
investment in aviation infrastructure (Air Traffic Management (ATM) and airports) will constrain the economy and society sooner rather than later."
She warned that a slowdown in aviation would have big consequences for the economies of smaller cities and commu¬nities, for remote communities and for the economy as a whole.
According to a report published in 2008 by the Air Transport Action Group (ATAG), The Economic and Social Benefits of Air Transport 2008, the air transport industry generates a total of 32 million jobs globally: 5.5 million directly (airline,
airports and civil aerospace sector); 6.3 million indirectly (through purchases of goods and services from companies in the supply chain); 2.9 million induced through spending by industry employ¬ees; and 17.1 million through air trans¬port's catalytic impact on tourism.
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