H2020Индивидуална стипендия2017–2019

EU-Drones · The European Commission in Drone Community: a New Cooperation Area in the Making

„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2017-04-01 → 2019-03-31
Финансиране от ЕС: 160 800 €
Участници: 1
Схема: MSCA-IF-EF-ST

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Дроновете и регулациите около тях се анализират чрез разглеждане на интересите на европейските власти, компаниите и военните. Това помага да се разбере как се създават общи правила за сигурността, поверителността и достъпа до въздушното пространство в Европа.

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The European Commission in Drone Community: a New Cooperation Area in the Making

Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS), commonly known as drones, are atypical equipment in traditional aviation because of their wide range of variety and applications. While they have been used by the military since decades, the civil use of RPAS has gained in importance over the last years, due to their extensive commercialisation that has made them accessible for leisure, commercial and professional activities. As RPAS are evolving technologies, their full potential is not yet known but developing. However, their utilisation has quickly raised societal concerns about security, safety, privacy, data protection, insurance, liability, environmental issues which challenge the public acceptance for their growing and permanent integration in the airspace. Hence, the main objective of this research was to examine how public authorities are shaping the regulatory framework, the production and the use of drones, with a special focus on the involved actors’ diverging interests. As the operation of drones raises cross-border issues and market access questions, the project was interested in evaluating the situation in Europe where multiple authorities overlap. The “EU-Drones” project was especially interested in how the European Union had tackled them and developed a policy framework for drones, especially through the leadership of the European Commission. The research aimed at identifying the configuration of relations and at analysing the power relationships between European, national and international, public and private, civil and military actors who are part of the “drone community”. It analysed their tools, interests and means in the policy-process towards a European drone policy framework. Based in Brussels from 2017 to 2019, the researcher closely followed the evolution of the policy-making process by meeting the actors involved in the discussions and assessing the challenges from the early beginning of the European regulatory framework for drones until its adoption. The “EU-Drones” project’s findings explain how the European Commission used its leadership capacity to take actions in the drone community with a clear impact on the dynamics and constituent parts of this community. Building on its competencies in the market, regulatory and research domains, the Commission pushed the European integration in a new sector and had a determinant impact on this emerging and competitive industry.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

The objective of this research is to examine how the European Commission is shaping regulatory framework development, production and use of drones considering the diverging interests among actors concerned in Europe (and beyond) where multiple authorities overlap. A comprehensive analysis of drones operations as a whole, including actors’ perceptions, expectations, interests and practices is still lacking. This research will therefore study the European Commission’s strategy to join and shape the drone community (rule makers, interest groups, manufacturers, operators and users) as well as the impact of its action. Referring to the Commission’s policy entrepreneurship literature, it is interested in how the Commission, by building on its competencies and resources, has exercised its leadership capacity to initiate action in a new domain that may not fall de facto under its prerogatives and thus has an effect on a strategic industry. Based on a relational approach, the project will analyse the power structures (configuration of relations, diverging and converging interests, resources, skills), perceptions of issues at stake (discourses) and action rationale (cooperation dynamics, informal and formal practices, strategies and means) of actors involved in EU initiatives: the single drones market, the regulatory framework, as well as research and development. The research methodology will be qualitative and based on a triangulation of methods (documents, discourses and interviews analysis). In line with the researcher’s previous work on the Commission’s actions in the security sector, it will be argued that the Commission’s leadership in drone matters, regarding its market, regulation and development, offers a lever for action to strengthen its position in the field of security at the crossroads between all actors involved as a bridge between the internal and external security, civil and military dimensions.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

Участници

VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL · Bruxelles / BrusselКоординаторБелгия