Regulation (EC) No 551/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 10 March 2004 on the organisation and use of the airspace in the Single European Sky - text published in the Official Journal of the European Union

Objective

The objective of the Airspace regulation is to put an end to the fragmentation of European Union (EU) airspace and to create an efficient and safe airspace without frontiers. The organisation and management of airspace shoud be improved by merging all the national flight information regions (FIRs) into a single portion of airspace within which air traffic services will be provided according to the same rules and procedures.