SDIP Governance

The SESAR Deployment & Infrastructure Partnership (SDIP) is the organization which has been selected by the European Commission on 01/06/2022 to perform the SDM function until 2027.

SDIP is led by Mariagrazia La Piscopia as the Executive Director supported by the Management Team and under the oversight of the Supervisory Board and the European Commission. You can find details of all members of the Management Team on our contact page.

The governance is driven by the SDIP members, representing a large majority on all fronts in European ATM/aviation.

The Executive Director is appointed by and reports to the Supervisory Board, materialising the equal partnership between the Airlines, Airports, Air navigation service providers and EUROCONTROL/ Network Manager.

Airlines:

Air France, easyJet Europe, Lufthansa and Ryanair are amongst the major airlines operating in the European Union, as they perform over 3 million flights and fly over 500 million passengers per year under normal traffic conditions, at least one third of the overall European passengers.

Airports:

ACI Europe represents over 530 airports spanning across 55 European countries, including all major airports mentioned in the text of Common Project One and that will be likely subject to any future Common Projects.

Air Navigation Service Providers:

The 15 Air Navigation Service Providers participating to the Consortium (the COOPANS Alliance (i.e., Austrocontrol, Croatia Control, LFV, IAA, Naviair, NAV Portugal), BULATSA, DSNA, DFS, ENAIRE, ENAV, HungaroControl, PANSA, ROMATSA and Skyguide) are responsible for controlling around 80% of the traffic volume operated in the European Union area, which is equivalent to around 8 million flights per year, under normal traffic conditions.

The Network Manager:

The European Union first established the Network Manager (NM) under the Single European Sky (SES) II package agreed in 2009 to perform the tasks necessary for the execution of the network functions. In 2019, the Commission re-appointed EUROCONTROL as the Network Manager for the period 2020-2029 through its Implementing Decision 2019/709. A new Implementation Regulation was adopted in 2019 (Network Function Implementation Regulation 123/2019), which entered into force on 1 January 2020 and which regulates the activities of the Network Manager.