Read the communiqué from the MARC group, released during the MOSAIC meeting held in Nice on 8 & 9 September 2009.

During its last meeting held in Nice on the 08th and 09th of September, the MOSAIC group had the privilege to welcome a new member: FATCOA, the French Air Traffic Controllers’ Association.

FATCOA, member of IFATCA, has now joined both MOSAIC and the MARC group, thus ensuring complete coherency for staff representation in the FABEC area.

The inputs of our French colleagues are highly valuable to build the international platform we need as the only logical step for the core area of Europe.

At the end of their two day meeting in Luxembourg, MOSAIC members highlighted that the FABEC could be jeopardised by a lack of political guidance. As providers and national supervisory authorities are all working at their level to increase efficiency, institutional issues are being largely ignored.

Read the whole statement here.

SATAC UNSA, the independent trade-union of French Civil Aviation Technicians, thinks that we have to consider and include the supervision’s aspects in our project, and that it’s time to draw a parallel between Air Navigation Services Provider and a Safety Supervision in Europe.

Read the full document here.

MOSAIC members took good note of the decisions taken in Bordeaux for the FABEC. The convergence process towards one single international organisation, with one single unit rate and charges collected by a single entity marks a very positive step in the right direction. MOSAIC members support the idea of a state treaty ratified by 2011, and are ready to work on it with governments and providers to place MOSAIC values and principles at the heart of its conception.

On the 25th of September 2008, the final draft of PRU FAB Evaluation Report was reviewed at a meeting in EUROCONTROL HQ. The final draft report can be downloaded below (click on Read More). During the meeting, Mr. Frédéric Deleau made the following intervention on behalf of the MOSAIC Project:

The summer season comes to an end... Traditionally, this short moment of peace preceding September is the moment where one looks back, and prepares for the busy months ahead. So we did.

Achievements, values, work to be done...we would have a lot to cover. Allow me to focus on some of them.

The MOSAIC group is pleased to announce its participation in the ATC Global 2008.  The event was founded 18 years ago under the name of  ATC Maastricht as it was held there until  February 2007.  The event has consistently grown to become the world’s largest event for the air traffic control and management industry.