Considering that the growth in air traffic, the need to centralise the national policy measures of each European State at European level and technological developments in air traffic require a revision of the EUROCONTROL International Convention relating to Co-operation for the Safety of Air Navigation of 13 December 1960, as amended by the amending Protocol of 12 February 1981, in order to provide for the establishment of a uniform European air traffic management system for the control of general air traffic in European airspace and at and around airports;
upoštevaje, da razvoj zračnega prometa, potreba po poenotenju ukrepov nacionalne politike posameznih evropskih držav na evropsko raven in tehnološki razvoj zračnega prometa terjajo revizijo Mednarodne konvencije EUROCONTROL o sodelovanju za varnost zračne plovbe z dne 13. decembra 1960, dopolnjene s Protokolom z dne 12. februarja 1981 zaradi ustanovitve enovitega evropskega sistema upravljanja zračnega prometa za nadzor splošnega zračnega prometa v evropskem zračnem prostoru na letališčih in okoli njih;