CONSOLIDATED ANNUAL ACTIVITY REPORT 2019 EDITION 01.00

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PDF: ISBN 978-92-9216-153-8 DOI: 10.2829/952368 Catalogue number: MG-AF-20-001-EN-N

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Contents Abstract ...... 1 Contents...... 4 List of figures ...... 6 List of tables ...... 7 Foreword ...... 9 Administrative Board’s analysis and assessment ...... 11 Executive summary ...... 12 1 Introduction ...... 17 1.1 Background and objectives of the document ...... 17 1.2 The SESAR JU: a key constituent of the EU Aviation Strategy ...... 17 1.3 The SESAR JU membership ...... 18 1.4 The role and mission of the SESAR JU ...... 19 1.5 Factsheet: the SESAR JU in 2019 ...... 23 2 Part I. Achievements of the year ...... 29 2.1 Strategic Area of Operation 1: Provide Strategic Steering to the SESAR Programme...... 39 2.1.1 The Airspace Architecture study ...... 40 2.1.2 Final update to the European Master Plan and release of the 2020 edition ...... 46 2.1.3 Contributions from the transversal steering projects ...... 46 2.1.4 Outcomes from the governance bodies ...... 50 2.2 Strategic Area of Operation 2: Deliver exploratory research (ER) ...... 55 2.2.1 Status of Exploratory Research 2 call on RPAS (H2020-SESAR-2016-1) ...... 56 2.2.2 Status of Exploratory Research 3 call (within the call with reference H2020-SESAR-2016-2) ...... 61 2.2.3 Status of Exploratory Research 4 call (with reference H2020-SESAR-2019-2) ...... 65 2.2.4 Other activities related to exploratory research ...... 66 2.3 Strategic Area of Operation 3: Deliver industrial research & validation (IR) ...... 69 2.3.1 Completion of SESAR 2020 Wave 1 projects (IR-VLD Wave 1) ...... 70 2.3.2 Status of SESAR 2020 Wave 2 ...... 132 2.4 Strategic Area of Operation 4: Deliver very large-scale demonstration activities (VLD) . 136 2.4.1 Activities carried out under the Horizon 2020 framework ...... 137 2.4.2 Activities under other financial frameworks ...... 143 2.5 Strategic Area of Operation 5: Deliver SESAR Outreach ...... 150 2.5.1 International cooperation ...... 151 2.5.2 Stakeholder engagement ...... 152 2.5.3 Communications ...... 156 2.6 Strategic Area of Operation 6 (transversal activity): Deliver effective financial, administrative and corporate management ...... 163 2.6.1 Implementation of calls for proposals and grant management framework ...... 164 2.6.2 Financial management ...... 165 2.6.3 Human Resources (HR) management ...... 166 2.6.4 Legal support to operations in 2019 ...... 166

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2.6.5 Procurement activities in 2019 ...... 167 2.6.6 Corporate planning and reporting ...... 167 2.6.7 Corporate Quality Management ...... 169 2.6.8 Information and communication technologies (ICT) management ...... 169 2.6.9 Facilities management ...... 170 2.6.10 Travel coordination ...... 170 2.6.11 Internal control, risk management and audit ...... 171 2.6.12 Data protection ...... 171 2.6.13 Participation to support and coordination groups in 2019 ...... 172 2.7 Overall conclusion on the SESAR JU’s achievements in 2019 ...... 172 3 Part IIa. Management Evaluation ...... 173 3.1 Administrative Board ...... 173 3.2 Major developments ...... 174 3.3 Budgetary and financial management ...... 174 3.3.1 Annual budget for the year 2019 ...... 174 3.3.2 Implementation of the budget for the year 2019 ...... 175 3.3.3 SESAR 2020 multi-annual budget execution ...... 178 3.3.4 Financial closure of the SESAR 1 programme...... 179 3.3.5 In-kind contributions ...... 180 3.3.6 Budget outturn ...... 182 3.3.7 Budget implementation allocation per Area of Operation ...... 186 3.4 Delegation and sub-delegation ...... 187 3.5 Human Resources (HR) management ...... 187 3.6 Strategy for efficiency gains ...... 188 3.7 Assessment of audit results during the reporting year ...... 188 3.7.1 Internal Audit Service (IAS) ...... 188 3.7.2 Internal Audit Capability (IAC) ...... 189 3.7.3 European Court of Auditors (ECA) ...... 189 3.8 a. Follow-up of recommendations and action plans for audits...... 190 3.9 b. Follow up of recommendations issued following investigations by OLAF ...... 190 3.10 Follow-up of observations from the discharge authority ...... 190 3.10.1 Discharge financial year 2017 ...... 190 3.10.2 Discharge financial year 2018 ...... 191 3.11 Environment management ...... 192 3.12 Assessment by management ...... 192 4 Part IIb. External evaluations ...... 194 5 Part III. Assessment of the effectiveness of the internal control systems ...... 195 5.1 Risk management ...... 195 5.1.1 Assessment of corporate risks at the end of 2019 ...... 195 5.1.2 Assessment of risk performed by the IAS ...... 197 5.1.3 Fraud risk assessment ...... 198 5.1.4 Risk identification related to the use of mobile devices at the SESAR JU ...... 199 5.2 Effectiveness of Internal Control Systems ...... 199

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5.3 Conclusions of assessment of internal control systems ...... 201 5.4 Statement of the Director in charge of risk management and internal control ...... 201 5.5 Project audits ...... 201 5.5.1 Results of the Horizon 2020 ex-post audits ...... 202 5.5.2 Results of the ex-post SESAR-specific audits ...... 203 6 Part IV. Management assurance ...... 204 6.1 Review of the elements supporting assurance ...... 204 6.2 Reservations ...... 205 6.3 Overall conclusions on assurance ...... 205 7 Part V. Declaration of assurance ...... 206 8 Annexes ...... 207 8.1 Annex I. Core business statistics ...... 207 8.1.1 Annex I.1: Horizon 2020 Scoreboards ...... 207 8.1.2 Annex I.2: Scoreboard of KPIs specific to SESAR JU ...... 218 8.1.3 Annex I.3: Procurement activity in 2019 ...... 222 8.2 Annex II. Statistics on financial management ...... 226 8.3 Annex III. Organisation chart ...... 227 8.4 Annex IV. Establishment plan ...... 228 8.5 Annex V. Human and financial resources by activity ...... 231 8.6 Annex VI. Contribution, grant and service level agreements. Financial Framework Partnership Agreements ...... 232 8.7 Annex VII. Specific annexes related to part II ...... 233 8.8 Annex VIII. Specific annexes related to part III ...... 234 8.9 Annex IX. Provisional Annual Accounts ...... 247 8.10 Annex X. Other annexes ...... 250 8.10.1 X.1 List of acronyms and definitions ...... 250 8.10.2 X.2 Composition of the Administrative Board as at 31 December 2019 ...... 256

List of figures Figure 1: SESAR JU membership from 2016 onwards ...... 19

Figure 2: The central role of the SESAR JU in driving and coordinating ATM research in the Union ... 20

Figure 3: The SESAR Innovation Pipeline – from EU Aviation Strategy to SESAR Solutions ...... 21

Figure 4: Number of projects per phase of the SESAR Innovation pipeline, per call (end 2019) ...... 30

Figure 5: The SESAR 2020 programme portfolio of projects matching the research topics at the end of 2019 (projects in execution or closed) ...... 31

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Figure 6: Evolution of SESAR 2020 call-related commitments (EUR), forecast for 2020 in dashed column ...... 32

Figure 7: All types of organisations are beneficiaries of SESAR 2020 funding ...... 33

Figure 8: SESAR 2020 funding for EU Member States at the end of 2019 ...... 34

Figure 9: Planned SESAR cumulated research and innovation contribution to the realisation of the ATM Master Plan KPAs ...... 37

Figure 10: The approach to the Airspace Architecture Study transition plan: focusing on operational and technical aspects (in red boxes) of the AAS high-level transition strategy ...... 42

Figure 11: Governance of the SESAR 2020 programme ...... 50

Figure 12: CNS & PJ14 solutions ...... 86

Figure 13: Integration of the six U-space projects under CEF i