NEWSLETTER-2017

379 MISCELLANEOUS ropean Council and the European Parliament. In this Communiqué, it was recommended that a Single European Sky be established. This recommendation stipulated that the system would have an efficient mechanism to prevent delays, and also that newly developed technolo- gies would be implemented across the whole of Europe in the aviation industry. It was within this context that the Single European Sky ATM Research (“SESAR”) project, which is composed of three phases, was established. Within the context of the first phase, as a first step, between 2004 and 2008, a “Definition Phase” was set into motion. In this phase, the main goal was to establish new generation air traffic management sys- tems, and on December 31st, 2004, the EU Commission promulgated Regulation No. 549/2004 (“Regulation”). The scope of the Regulation included the provision of air navigation systems, the organization and use of the sky, and changes in EU countries’management of air traffic. The Regulation also sought to improve the aviation industry and re- inforce existing security standards in the EU. Within this framework, new structures were introduced, such as the “ National Supervisory Authorities, ” the “ Single Sky Committee, ” and the “ Industry Consulta- tion Body. ” The second phase, which can be also deemed as the “ Develop- ment Phase, ” lasted from 2008 to 2013. The first striking development in this period was Regulation No. 1008/2008, which was published by the Commission in 2008, and instituted the legal infrastructure for the European aviation industry. Regulation No. 1008 laid out the provi- sions for issues such as the issuance of licenses required for those who intend to be involved in air transport in the EU, as well as the valid- ity and cancellation of those licenses. In addition, the said regulation put into effect a number of provisions concerning the determination of prices for air transportation services. This phase was managed by the SESAR Joint Undertaking with an enormous budget of 2.1 billion Euros. Next, and finally, came the “ Deployment Phase, ” which is ongo- ing. In the project plan for this period, which is projected to last from 2014 to 2020, the goal is to create new infrastructure for air traffic management, and to bring into being infrastructural operations. In this