This is the official web site for the Navigation Domain of the EUROCONTROL Agency.  It provides information about the Navigation Strategy for ECAC and related activities.

Forecasts show that, compared with 2003, air traffic movements in Europe can be expected to more than double by 2020.

The existing Air Navigation System and its sub-systems suffer from  technical, operational and economic shortcomings. Despite the success of EUROCONTROL EATCHIP, and the measures already in hand to provide further improvements, the current system is unlikely to be able to cope with traffic increases of the predicted magnitude.

New advanced systems and concepts can offer potential improvements in terms of safety, environmental impact, efficiency and economy, provided that their implementation is based on a fully co-ordinated, harmonised, evolutionary and flexible planning process.

The ECAC Navigation Strategy has been developed to answer to this need.