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Organisation of air traffic control in Italy

Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata"

Abstract

The Italian organization for the provision of air navigation services, after its transferral from the military to the civil administration, developed in three different stages: A) "Azienda autonoma di assistenza al volo" (the independent body for air navigation services); B) "Ente nazionale per l'assistenza al volo" (the national body for air navigation services, which was a public economic institution); C) "ENAV Società per Azioni" (incorporation of the aforementioned body as a joint stock company).
Regardless of the different legal forms under which the body at issue has been performing its institutional tasks, its corporate capital has always been entirely held by the State, with the subsequent array of public checks and controls arising therefrom.
Under a functional stand-point, a distinction shall be made between the past, when air traffic control was provided autonomously by the Italian administration, and the present, which is characterized and deeply influenced by the circumstance of the accession by the European Community to Eurocontrol, following the Brussels Protocol of 8 October 2002, also with regard to the collection of the relevant service charges. Special attention shall be dedicated to the technical instruments through which air navigation services are provided, which, for enhancing the service quality in light of air traffic growth, developed from the traditional radar-based control to more and more utilized satellite-based systems (FANS >>>

Principal Investigator

Elda TURCO Università degli Studi di ROMA "Tor Vergata"

Research Objectives

Analysis of the organisational and functional system for the provision of air navigation services in Italy, in order to ensure the safety and reliability of air navigation services, and its inferences for airport organization.

Timescale

24 months

National and international background

-Royal Decree 11/1/1925 n. 356, regulation for air navigation;
-Royal-decree 30 March 1942, n. 327, approving the navigation code;
-Chicago convention 7/12/44 on international civil aviation, implemented in Italy by D.L. 6/3/48 n. 616. Annexes 2,11,15 to the said convention and their implementation in Italy;
-International convention on cooperation for the air navigation safety "EUROCONTROL" 13/12/1965;
-Law 13/5/1983 n. 213 "Modification of certain disposition of navigation code relating air navigation";
-Law n. 537/1993, on the organization of the Ministry of Trasport and Navigation;
-Law 351/1995 relating to the trasformation of the indipendent company for air assistence into a public economic istitution and thereafter into a limited company;
-Law 21 December 1996, n. 665 that transforms the indipendent company for assistance into a public economic institution;
-Decree-law 25 July 1997, n. 250 that estabilishes the ENAC National Institution for Civil Aviation;
-Decree-law 22 april 1997 concerning the approval of the administrative accounting regulation of ENAV (National Agency for air Assistence)
-Decree-law 25/2/1999 n. 66 establishes the National Agency for flight safety;
-Comparative analysis of the civil aviation metods in the USA:D.O.T. (Department of Transport),F.A.A. (Federal Aviation Administration) and in the United Kingdom: D.O.T. (Department of Transport) e C.A.A. (Civil Aviation >>>