Against the background of endlessly increasing aircraft movement statistics, the safety issue remains a top priority. It is, and will ever be, the raison d’être of EUROCONTROL.This Safety Bulletin, the first to be issued, provides: an insight into the workings of the EUROCONTROL Voluntary ATM Incident Reporting system (EVAIR) - one of the key elements of SAFER, and an overview of the statistics accumulated over a fifteen month period from September 2006 to December 2007.