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The Single European Sky is a reglementary initiative launched by the European Commission in 2004 to reform the architecture of European ATM, promoting its evolution towards a more efficient air transport system.

SES objectives include harmonisation and improved efficiency in ANS provision across the European Union by boosting air-control capacity, shoring up safety, reducing the fragmentation of the European airspace, enhancing the integration of the military sphere in our skies and facilitating the introduction of new technologies.

ENAIRE has become a project heavyweight since its establishment, spearheading a number of programmes and boosting our presence and reach across international forums.

The core initiatives of the Single European Sky project include:

• SESAR (Single European Sky ATM Research) Programme. This programme includes the R&D phase associated with the modernisation of ATM in Europe. SESAR is the technological pillar of the EU’s Single European Sky policy and a key enabler of the European Commission’s Sustainable and Smart Mobility Strategy. SESAR defines, develops and deploys technologies to transform air traffic management in Europe. ENAIRE participates in several SESAR projects, you can find more information about our participating in the following document.
• For more information about SESAR projects please visit the SESAR Joint Undertaking project portal: https://www.sesarju.eu/projects/portal
• SESAR Joint Undertaking (R&D). As a member of the SESAR Joint Undertaking, ENAIRE will engage until late 2024 in the execution of the SESAR 2020 R&D Work Programme and other additional initiatives managed by the SJU, taking part in control and governance decisions through the existing bodies.

The SESAR 2020 R&D programme has been articulated in two subphases, called respectively Wave 1 and Wave 2. In this framework, together with its affiliates and associates and the other SJU members, ENAIRE will work on the projects awarded to it as a result of bids submitted to Wave 1 (2016-2019) and those it will be awarded in the future in Wave 2, tweaking its strategy in line with iTEC (the future flight data and control position processing system that it is the upshot of cooperation between ENAIRE, German provider DFS and Britain’s NATS) plans and strategies and coordinating its participation with the other A6 ANSPs.

Following the bid selection process for SESAR 2020 Wave 1, ENAIRE was selected to engage in the implementation of 19 large-scale R&D projects and demonstrations needed to deliver the most advanced service levels established in the European ATM Master Plan.

• SESAR Deployment Manager. The SESAR Programme’s deployment phase began in December 2014 with the appointment of the European Commission to the consortium formed by A6 members and airline and airport associations, the SESAR Deployment Alliance (SDA), as a SESAR Deployment Manager (SDM) for the synchronised deployment of SESAR infrastructure through to 2020. ENAIRE has also engaged in the successive annual calls intended to subsidise the implementation of projects and which were launched by the Innovation and Networks Executive Agency, the European body which, among other matters, facilitates the interconnection of European transport networks, in the years 2014, 2015 and 2016.

As a member of the SDA Consortium, ENAIRE engages in the synchronisation of the implementation and deployment of SESAR projects which will enjoy a Community subsidy for the 2014-2020 period of between €2 and €2.3 billion (Connecting Europe Facility funds).

ENAIRE’s participation in deployment management helps develop the internationalisation process of its activity, bringing to its service portfolio experience that it can leverage for future development opportunities.

Strategically it makes it possible to contribute to the definition and evolution of the SES Deployment Programme, therefore minimising the impact on the organisation’s investment plans.

June 2017 saw the SDA Consortium, as provided for under its foundation agreement, established as a legal organisation based out of Belgium as a not-for-profit international association of which ENAIRE is a founding member. The international association is scheduled to take up the role of deployment manager as of 1 January 2018.

• European projects deployment. ENAIRE will continue to actively participate in SESAR deployment planning and coordination activities through the various mechanisms and processes established by the European Commission, in particular:
  • European ATM Master Plan (2025 edition): ENAIRE contributes to the periodic review and update of European ATM Master Plan, which respectively define the planning of SESAR Solutions and the operational and technological deployment objectives in the medium term, in alignment with the Digital European Sky.
  • EUROCONTROL Implementation Plan and Report EIPAR: ENAIRE is actively involved in the implementation and development of the new EIPAR process, promoted by EUROCONTROL, which aims to integrate planning, monitoring, and reporting activities related to the implementation of the Single European Sky. This process seeks to enhance consistency between strategic planning (ATM Master Plan), execution (CP1 / Deployment Programme) and national reporting (LSSIP), promoting a more integrated and coordinated approach at European level.
  • Coordination of the annual preparation of the Spanish Local Single Sky Implementation Plan (LSSIP): ENAIRE leads the national coordination of LSSIP Spain, which includes the planning and monitoring of the implementation activities of all national stakeholders and in achieving the objectives of the European ATM Master Plan.
  • Contribution to the monitoring of the Deployment Programme (DP): ENAIRE takes part in the update and monitoring of the Deployment Programme developed by the Deployment Manager within the framework of the Common Project One (CP1), in accordance with Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/116. This contribution includes monitoring the progress of ENAIRE’s national projects related to CP1 functionalities, as well as coordination with the SESAR Deployment & Infrastructure Partnership (SDIP) and the SESAR 3 Joint Undertaking (S3JU). All CP1 implementation projects co-financed by CINEA can be consulted in the document.

• South West FAB. Following a long history of collaboration on air traffic management matters between Spain and Portugal, the South West Functional Airspace Block (SW FAB) was formally established on 17 May 2013 with the signing of an agreement by the two States. The signing of this agreement created a formal setting in which the two countries work with the aim of establishing the most effective measures to deliver on the Single European Sky. SW FAB is one of the nine European airspace blocks.

Major progress has been made in this field of collaboration, including the preparation of the SW FAB Operational Board Common Plan (SW FAB OB CP), first presented to the European Commission on 25 November 2013 and which is an exhaustive technical/operational compendium of the principal projects of action aligned with SW FAB compliance with the obligations arising from the implementation of the FABs.

The SW FAB 2015-2019 Performance Plan (SOWEPP) has also been prepared by Spain and Portugal in compliance with Regulation (EU) 390/2013. It contains the objectives and associated actions that SW FAB is committed to and is the cornerstone of the monitoring and control activities performed by the European Commission and the Spanish supervisory authority AESA and its Portuguese counterpart ANAC both at the FAB and national levels.

• AEFMP Agreement. Multilateral actions between Algeria, Spain, France, Morocco, Portugal and Tunisia are managed as part of the AEFMP to encourage the harmonisation of communications, navigation and surveillance (CNS) and air traffic management (ATM) service provision in the area of influence of these countries’ service providers. All the work is done in accordance with the international planning framework established by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and the European Union.

The AEFMP agreement covers the following areas:

• Technical and operational enablers
• Deployment activity harmonisation
• Systems interoperability
• Air traffic flow optimisation
• Systems interconnection
• ENAIRE holds the AEFMP chair in 2017