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organising and coordinating the activities of the development phase of the SESAR project, in accordance with the ATM Master Plan, resulting from the definition phase of the project managed by Eurocontrol, by combining and managing under a single structure public and private sector funding,

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ensuring the necessary funding for the activities of the development phase of the SESAR project in accordance with the ATM Master Plan,

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ensuring the involvement of the stakeholders of the air traffic management sector in Europe, in particular: air navigation service providers, airspace users, professional staff associations, airports, and manufacturing industry; as well as the relevant scientific institutions or the relevant scientific community,

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organising the technical work of research and development, validation and study, to be carried out under its authority while avoiding fragmentation of such activities,

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ensuring the supervision of activities related to the development of common products duly identified in the ATM Master Plan and if necessary, to organise specific invitations to tender.

(a)

adopting the ATM Master Plan endorsed by the Council as referred to in Article 1(2) of this Regulation and approving any proposal to modify it;

(b)

giving guidelines and taking the decisions necessary for the implementation of the development phase of the SESAR project and exercising overall control over its implementation;

(c)

approving the Joint Undertaking’s work programme and annual work programmes referred to in Article 16(1) as well as the annual budget, including the staff establishment plan;

(d)

authorising negotiations and deciding on the accession of new members and on the relating agreements as referred to in Article 1(3);

(e)

supervising the execution of the agreements between members and the Joint Undertaking;

(f)

appointing and dismissing the Executive Director and approving the organisation chart and monitoring the Executive Director’s performance;

(g)

deciding on the amounts and procedures for the payment of members’ financial contributions and the assessment of contributions in kind;

(h)

adopting the financial rules of the Joint Undertaking;

(i)

approving the annual accounts and balance sheet;

(j)

adopting the annual report on the progress of the development phase of the SESAR project and its financial situation referred to in Article 16(2);

(k)

deciding on proposals to the Commission on the extension and the dissolution of the Joint Undertaking;

(l)

establishing procedures for granting rights of access to tangible and intangible assets which are the property of the Joint Undertaking and the transfer of such assets;

(m)

laying down the rules and procedures for awarding the contracts necessary to implement the ATM Master Plan, including specific procedures for conflicts of interest;

(n)

deciding on proposals to the Commission to amend the Statutes in accordance with Article 24;

(o)

exercising such other powers and performing such other functions, including the establishment of subsidiary bodies, as may be necessary for the purposes of the development phase of the SESAR project;

(p)

adopting the arrangements for implementing Article 8.

(a)

employ, manage and supervise the staff of the Joint Undertaking, including the staff referred to in Article 8;

(b)

organise, manage and supervise the activities of the Joint Undertaking;

(c)

submit to the Administrative Board his proposals concerning the organisation chart;

(d)

draw up and regularly update the global and the annual work programme of the Joint Undertaking, including an estimate on programme costs, and submit them to the Administrative Board;

(e)

draw up, in accordance with the Financial Rules, the draft annual budget, including the staff establishment plan, and submit them to the Administrative Board;

(f)

ensure that the obligations of the Joint Undertaking, with regard to the contracts and agreements it concludes, are met;

(g)

ensure that the activities of the Joint Undertaking are carried out with complete independence and without any conflicts of interest;

(h)

draw up the annual report on the progress of the SESAR project and its financial situation, and such other reports as may be requested by the Administrative Board, and submit them to the latter;

(i)

submit the annual accounts and balance sheet to the Administrative Board;

(j)

submit to the Administrative Board any proposal involving changes in the design of the SESAR project.

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23 temporary staff, recruited externally

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10 staff seconded by SJU Members in accordance with Article 8 of Council Regulation (EC) 219/2007

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2 contractual staff

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2 SNEs

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Operational tasks: 21

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Administrative and support tasks: 15

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Mixed tasks: 1.

(a)

At the end of 2010, 285 projects were initiated and 232 entered the execution phase; the integration of activities awarded as part of IBAFO II is underway and around 1 800 persons are currently involved in the different projects of the SESAR Programme. The Programme activities are developing as planned and constitute a basis to be further progressed to contribute to the achievement of the 2012 strategic objectives.

(b)

In June 2010, the first Engineering Review Session, i.e. the assessment of the progress of the different Work Packages/Projects towards the SESAR Joint Undertaking Targets, was performed. In particular, the review highlighted how the critical dependencies have been established and contribute to the coherent progressing of the projects towards the Targets as well as the need for some corrective actions to align schedules, content, and engineering methodology.

(c)

With regard to the Programme reporting, the Joint Undertaking has introduced a structured quarterly reporting based on effort consumption that has to be submitted by the Members, starting with quarter III 2010. This report provides the Joint Undertaking with an additional monitoring of the alignment of the Members’ efforts with the programme objectives, and of the risk incurred.

(d)

With regard to Validation, SESAR partners agreed on a Validation & Verification roadmap, which in particular stresses the importance of being as close as possible to the real operational environment in all validation activities.

(e)

Work Package E (Long Term Research) and Work Package 11 (Flight Operations Centre Systems) have been launched and activities started fully respectively by year end and by the first quarter 2011.

(f)

In order to ensure the involvement of all stakeholders in the Programme, the SJU has assured their participation through the award of contracts as a result of procurement procedures, directly or through Eurocontrol:

(g)

The second phase of AIRE (Atlantic Interoperability Initiative to Reduce Emissions) procurement procedure was launched and completed, resulting in the award of 18 contracts with different consortia in charge of the performance of the activities. The total amount committed is 2,7 million euro.

(h)

A study on wireless communication was launched by the Joint Undertaking in May 2010 and 2 contracts for an amount of 0,5 million euro were signed.

(i)

Following the signature of a Memorandum of Cooperation between the EU and the US Federal Aviation Administration, the Joint Undertaking in cooperation with the European Commission and Eurocontrol will establish the most appropriate framework to implement this memorandum in concrete activities. In this respect, it is the intention of the Joint Undertaking to ensure that its Members involved operationally in projects are focal points with their American counterparts in the different relevant domains. Furthermore, external relation in cooperation with the EC and Eurocontrol were established with different strategic areas around the world, in particular Brazil, China, India and the Middle East.

(j)

The communication plan has been implemented in accordance with the Budget approved by the Administrative Board. Within the activities performed by the Communication team, the annual Amsterdam Global Air Traffic Control conference in March constitutes an example of efficient and effective results within contained resources.

(k)

The implementation of ABAC and SAP was completed in May 2010, while ABAC Assets and ABAC Contract are planned to be implemented by the end of 2011.