ATC
SES initiative seen as essential
The Single European Sky (SES), officially launched in 2004, is the single biggest air traffic management (ATM) initiative ever undertaken in Europe.

The Single European Sky (SES), officially launched in 2004, is the single biggest air traffic management (ATM) initiative ever undertaken in Europe. Its main aim is to provide wholesale structural reform of a deeply fragmented regulatory framework to provide a seamless ATM system.

Given the scale of the initiative, and the fact that it involves nations relinquishing at least some control over their skies, achieving the SES goal was never going to be easy since it requires high-level political support to push through the necessary revision of national legal and economic measures.

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