Belgocontrol must be sure that its operational and technical personnel has and keeps at all times a sufficient knowledge and command of the services it supports, 
as well as of the immediate and potential effects of its intervention on the safety of its services. Moreover the company will ensure that its personnel gets the required licence.
Community Licence
The European Commission adopted indeed a proposal aiming to introduce a Community licence for air traffic controllers. This proposal is part of the implementing rules of the ‘Single European’ package. It will contribute to safety and quality of air traffic control service, particularly for cross-border service provision. The objective is to enable the necessary harmonisation of the current patchwork of national licensing schemes. The new Community licence aims at harmonising the licensing systems for air traffic controllers and promoting the mutual recognition of national licences.
This is an important social aspect of the Single European Sky. The proposal will equally reinforce safety levels of air traffic management by introducing common standards for the controller’s training. Finally it will enable the mobility of personnel across Europe and will facilitate the organisation of cross-border service provision and the establishment of functional airspace blocks beyond borders.
Every link of the licensing chain is regulated: the institutional framework, the conditions for access to the profession, transparency and comparability, training standards appropriate to the complex and dense European air traffic environment, including linguistic and medical requirements.
