1. EXECUTIVE ROUNDTABLE SERIES
KEY LEGAL CONSIDERATIONS GOVERNING THE NEXT GENERATION AIR TRANSPORT SYSTEM
Governance, Regulatory and Liability Challenges In the Transformation of our Air Transport System
Speaker: Andrew B. Steinberg, Partner, Government Regulation – Jones Day
June 3, 2010

2. Overview
Agreement on the business and societal need to transform an antiquated infrastructure
Consensus on the desired capabilities and technologies of a modernized satellite-based system
Legal and regulatory challenges in the way of achieving our objectives

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4. What’s stood in the way of progress?
Lack of Vision?
Lack of Technology?
Lack of Money?

5. Governance challenges
Financing the infrastructure and airborne equipage
Institutional competence
Private sector competition over ATM services

6. Regulatory challenges
The environment
“Performance-based” navigation rules:
“Best equipped best served” vs “first come, first served”
Equipage mandates and incentives

7. Liability risks
Risk allocation among States, ANSP’s, 3d parties and mitigation techniques
Protecting IP conveyed to state agencies
Special challenge of “criminalizing” accidents

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