SPECTRUM MANAGEMENT

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SPECTRUM MANAGEMENT

• EUROPEAN AVIATION ACTIVITIES
• Presented by C. Pelmoine, EUROCONTROL

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OBJECTIVE

• To defend the civil aviation interests in the
  radio frequency spectrum against an increasing
  commercial competition for this resource by
  obtaining favourable decisions in-
• International Radio Band Allocation providing
  sufficient capacity for the operation and
  deployment of existing systems and for the
  development of future systems.
• Safety and Quality to ensure that emissions
  from non-aeronautical systems do not cause
  harmful interference to, or degrade the quality
  of, aeronautical systems

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JUSTIFICATION BENEFITS

• MATSE/ 6 meeting
• ECAC Ministers of Transport called on
  EUROCONTROL, in close co-operation with ICAO, to
  address the need for a strong mechanism for the
  management, assignment and audit of the use of
  aviation spectrum within the airspace of ECAC
  States.
• Economic and political influence of non aviation
  interests
• Need for a structured approach to spectrum
  protection for aviation
• Spectrum management is an enabler for
• all EATMP programmes / projects reliant on access
  to radio frequencies

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APPROACH

• Activities are aimed at supporting the
  European position at CEPT and ITU WRCs

• To be achieved by-
• participating in the development of the world
  wide aviation discussions
• supporting the agreed position at ITU Conferences
  and Meetings
• carrying out aviation studies with CEPT and the
  EC
• supplementing the ICAO position with European
  Civil and military specifics in ITU, CEPT, NATO
  and EC conferences and meetings.

• Organised as-
• Independent group SFCG for high level policies,
  SMG as the SFCG support group
• ICAO EANPG FMG for technical issues
• Support by EUROCONTROL resource.

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SMG
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ATM/CNS STRATEGY
Refused
CNS IMPLEMENTATION PLANS
REQUEST ADDITIONAL SPECTRUM
No
SPECTRUM MANAGEMENT PROCESS
No spectrum
QUALITY QUANTITY OK ?
IDENTIFY OPPORTUNITIES
ESTABLISH SPECTRUM POSITION
Allocated spectrum
SPECTRUM STRATEGY JUSTIFICATION
Yes
RE-PLAN REGISTER IMPLEMENT
INTEREST - INTERNAL to AVIATION
IDENTIFY THREATS
INTEREST - EXTERNAL to AVIATION
IS THERE AN ESTABLISHED SPECTRUM POSITION?
No
ASSESS THREATS and OPPORTUNITIES
ESTABLISH POSITION on THREATS and OPPORTUNITIES
Yes
OUTCOME FAVOURABLE ?
Yes
COMPLETE PROCESS OF RESPONSE
CLOSE ACTION
ASSESS IMPACT
No
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STAKEHOLDERS

• ECAC Transport Ministers
• ICAO
• States and ATS Providers
• European Community
• Airspace users
• JAA
• Military Aviation Community
• European Standardisation Institutes

• Aviation

• Non aviation

• ITU
• CEPT
• State PTT Administrations

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DELIVERABLES

• Strategy
• Aeronautical European Common Position (AECP)
• Study reports
• SFMS
• Other tools

• European spectrum strategy for aviation
• Definition of common spectrum requirements and
  common aviation position
• Studies on support of the previous deliverables
• Spectrum Frequency Management system
• Frequency planning tools