Traduction de «Plan de défense du Commandement aérien » (Français → Anglais) :

Without prejudice to Member States’ sovereignty over the airspace and to the requirements of the Member States relating to public order, public security and defence matters, the Network Manager, Member States, third countries, airspace users, functional airspace blocks and air navigation service providers as part of functional airspace blocks or individually shall develop, using a cooperative decision-making process, the European Route Network Improvement Plan, while applying the airspace design principles set out in this Annex.

facilitate, within the European Route Network Improvement Plan, the development of an airspace structure offering the required level of safety, capacity, flexibility, responsiveness, environmental performance and seamless provision of expeditious air navigation services, with due regard to security and defence needs;

51. Encourages further progress in the area of the pooling and sharing of assets as a cost-effective way of increasing capabilities, which is all the more relevant in a time of budgetary austerity; welcomes, in particular, activities to address gaps in strategic airlift capabilities, namely the creation, by a number of Member States, of the European Air Transport Command (EATC), as well as the European Air Transport Fleet initiative; encourages the Vice-President/High Representative and the Member States to follow the European Defence Agency's recommendations and to speed up work to identify other areas in which to apply the pooling an ...[+++]d sharing principles, including in the field of training or mission support; welcomes in this regard proposals to establish a multinational helicopter wing modelled on the EATC to be used for both civilian and military tasks;

the establishment of a European air transport fleet, the governance plan adopted by 14 Member States at the General Affairs and External Relations Council of 17 November 2009 in a defence ministers composition, the establishment of a European air transport command in Eindhoven and the creation of a multinational A400M unit, while viewing the major delays in delivery as regrettable and calling on the Member States concerned and the ...[+++]EADS to make a success of the A400M project so that the multinational unit can be set up rapidly; stresses the importance of the use of military transport capabilities in support of civil protection and crisis management operations;

· the establishment of a European air transport fleet, the governance plan adopted by 14 Member States at the General Affairs and External Relations Council of 17 November 2009 in a defence ministers composition, the establishment of a European air transport command in Eindhoven and the creation of a multinational A400M unit, while viewing the major delays in delivery as regrettable and calling on the Member States concerned and th ...[+++]e EADS to make a success of the A400M project so that the multinational unit can be set up rapidly; stresses the importance of the use of military transport capabilities in support of civil protection and crisis management operations;

The slump in air transport following 11 September 2001 may pose a similar but opposite challenge, with defence and security requirements offering de facto some counterweight to the slowdown in airline orders.