The European regulatory response to the volcanic ash crisis between fragmentation and integration
International audience More than twenty years after the EU eliminated its internal land borders, the Union still lacks an integrated airspace. This seems to be the most immediate regulatory lesson of the recent volcanic ash crisis. In this brief report, I will provide a first-hand analysis of the re...
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ftunivnantes:oai:HAL:hal-00537063v1 2023-05-15T16:09:39+02:00 The European regulatory response to the volcanic ash crisis between fragmentation and integration Alemanno, Alberto Groupement de Recherche et d'Etudes en Gestion à HEC (GREGH) Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC Paris)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) 2010 https://hal-hec.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00537063 en eng HAL CCSD Cambridge University Press hal-00537063 https://hal-hec.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00537063 ISSN: 1867-299X EISSN: 2190-8249 European Journal of Risk Regulation https://hal-hec.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00537063 European Journal of Risk Regulation, Cambridge University Press, 2010, 2, pp.NC Risk Regulation EU law Precationary principle Volcanic ash Emergency Regulation Eurocontrol EASA Single European Sky Air Traffic Management Worst-case scenarios [SHS.GESTION.DROIT]Humanities and Social Sciences/Business administration/domain_shs.gestion.droit info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal articles 2010 ftunivnantes 2022-06-28T23:45:58Z International audience More than twenty years after the EU eliminated its internal land borders, the Union still lacks an integrated airspace. This seems to be the most immediate regulatory lesson of the recent volcanic ash crisis. In this brief report, I will provide a first-hand analysis of the regulatory answer developed across Europe in the aftermath of the eruption of the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull. While reconstructing the unfolding of the events and the procedures followed by the regulators, I will attempt to address some of the questions that I have repeatedly asked myself when stranded in Washington DC between 16 and 25 April 2010. Who did the assessment of the hazard posed by volcanic ash to jetliners? Who was competent to take risk management decisions, such as the controversial flight bans? Is it true that the safe level of volcanic ash was zero? How to explain the shift to a new safety threshold (of 2,000 mg/m3) only five days after the event? Did regulators overact? To what extent did they manage the perceived risk rather than the actual one? At a time when the impact of the volcanic ash cloud crisis is being closely scrutinised by both public authorities and the affected industries, it seems particularly timely to establish what happened during the worst aviation crisis in European history. This report was written one week after the event and relied on a limited number of sources available by 30 April 2010. Article in Journal/Newspaper Eyjafjallajökull Université de Nantes: HAL-UNIV-NANTES |
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International audience More than twenty years after the EU eliminated its internal land borders, the Union still lacks an integrated airspace. This seems to be the most immediate regulatory lesson of the recent volcanic ash crisis. In this brief report, I will provide a first-hand analysis of the regulatory answer developed across Europe in the aftermath of the eruption of the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull. While reconstructing the unfolding of the events and the procedures followed by the regulators, I will attempt to address some of the questions that I have repeatedly asked myself when stranded in Washington DC between 16 and 25 April 2010. Who did the assessment of the hazard posed by volcanic ash to jetliners? Who was competent to take risk management decisions, such as the controversial flight bans? Is it true that the safe level of volcanic ash was zero? How to explain the shift to a new safety threshold (of 2,000 mg/m3) only five days after the event? Did regulators overact? To what extent did they manage the perceived risk rather than the actual one? At a time when the impact of the volcanic ash cloud crisis is being closely scrutinised by both public authorities and the affected industries, it seems particularly timely to establish what happened during the worst aviation crisis in European history. This report was written one week after the event and relied on a limited number of sources available by 30 April 2010. |
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The European regulatory response to the volcanic ash crisis between fragmentation and integration |
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The European regulatory response to the volcanic ash crisis between fragmentation and integration |
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ISSN: 1867-299X EISSN: 2190-8249 European Journal of Risk Regulation https://hal-hec.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00537063 European Journal of Risk Regulation, Cambridge University Press, 2010, 2, pp.NC |
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