International forums

ENAIRE engages in international forums that promote a global evolution agreed on by stakeholders (regulators, ANSPs, industry). The most important international forums include:

A6

The A6 Alliance brings together the leading ANSPs (ENAIRE, DFS, NATS, DSNA, ENAV, COOPANS and PANSA/B4) to coordinate their activities in SESAR and adopt initiatives within the Single European Sky development framework to boost their weight in European Commission regulatory processes. A6 was established in June 2011 with the signing of a memorandum of cooperation.

In July 2015 the A6 members updated the memorandum because of new activities and emerging services that reached beyond the initial sphere of action (SESAR 1) and brought new members onboard (the COOPANS alliance and the B4 consortium led by PANSA).

Specifically, the updated memorandum covers greater cooperation in other areas, such as the SESAR 2020 programme (continuation of SESAR 1) and the SESAR deployment phase (managed by the SESAR Deployment Manager, or SDM) and other services that could be provided such as NewPENS, datalink services, SWIM, surveillance services, etc.).

CANSO

Civil Air Navigation Services Organisation, established in 1996 and of which ENAIRE is a founding member. It is the instrument for the common coordination of positions and strategies of civil ANSPs. ENAIRE participates in:

CANSO Global: the Annual General Meeting (AGM), the maximum decision body of CANSO Global; the Strategy and Integration Standing Committee (SISC), which drafts policies and strategies and evaluates business opportunities; the Operational Standing Committee (OSC), which controls operational aspects, and the Safety Standing Committee (SSC), responsible for operational safety aspects.

  • CANSO Europe: European Regional Committee (EC3), CANSO European Coordination Meeting (CECM) and its related taskforces (Policy, Technical, Performance and Finance, Planning and Coordination, EASA, Safety, Social Dialogue and European Communication Cell).
  • CANSO Europe drafts ANSP policies and strategies with respect to initiatives in the framework of the EU, Eurocontrol and the European Air Safety Agency (EASA).
  • CANSO Latin America and Caribbean (LAC): CANSO LAC3 regional committee of which ENAIRE is a founding member, which works on including new members from the region and establishing initiatives to improve ATM system provision throughout the LAC area.

ICAO

The principal planned activities are those arising from the conclusions of the 39th ICAO assembly meeting described in the Air Navigation Global Plan and in particular those of the EUR/NAT region that Spain belongs to, as well as FIT (FANS 1/A Interoperability Team) and SAT (information coordination meeting for ATS improvement over the South Atlantic) meetings in the field of improved safety and efficiency of operations in the South Atlantic air corridor which crosses the Flight Information Regions of Canaries, Dakar Oceanic, Recife and Sal Oceanic.

ENAIRE manages RVSM (Reduced Vertical Separation Minimum) monitoring within the IACO’s South Atlantic Monitoring Agency (SATMA).