PURPOSE: to align the legal status of the SESAR Joint Undertaking with that of the other newly established Joint Undertakings.
LEGISLATIVE ACT: Council Regulation (EC) No 1361/2008 amending Regulation (EC) No 219/2007 on the establishment of a joint undertaking to develop the new generation European air traffic management system (SESAR).
CONTENT: the Council adopted a Regulation amending Council Regulation (EC) No 219/2007 on the establishment of a joint undertaking to develop the new generation European air traffic management system (SESAR).
The Regulation is being amended in order to clarify the legal status of the SESAR joint undertaking and to align its statutes with those of other joint undertakings created recently in the framework of joint technological initiatives such as Clean Sky (aeronautics), ARTEMIS (Embedded Computing Systems), IMI (Innovative Medicines Initiative) and ENIAC (nanotechnology).
To this end, provisions on the following have been included in the Regulation: recognition of the SESAR joint undertaking as a Community body; application of the status of European Community temporary staff to its personnel; application of the Protocol on the Privileges and Immunities of the European Communities to the joint undertaking, its staff and its executive director; adaptation of the provisions on liability; adaptation of the provisions on the jurisdiction of the Court of Justice and applicable law; adoption of a Financial Regulation in accordance with the framework Financial Regulation for the bodies referred to in Article 185 of the Financial Regulation; discharge and presentation of the budget.
ENTRY INTO FORCE: 01/01/2009.