Single European Sky.

Single European Sky legislation will be revised in the light of the conclusions of a new report by the "high-level group on the future aviation regulatory framework recently submitted to European Commission Vice-President Jacques Barrot, who is also Commissioner for Transport. The report contains 10 recommendations and a roadmap with concrete measures on how to boost the performance of Europe's air traffic management system. The report calls For the appointment of an Aviation System Coordinator to promote actions in the field of capacity both in airspace and at airports. Airlines cautiously welcomed the report. IATA noted that over the past 15 years, there had been For too many reports and far too little progress". Key elements of the report relate to the further empowerment of Eurocontrol--prompting the AEA to warn that "expensive fragmentation must not be replaced with expensive bureaucracy and to note that "particular attention had to be paid to Eurocontrol ... an organisation with sky-high costs and no incentives to reduce them".