Management level
Article 9
1. The deployment manager shall be responsible for the management level. 2. The deployment manager shall, in particular, be responsible for: (a) developing, proposing, maintaining and implementing the deployment programme, in accordance with Section 2; (b) associating the operational stakeholders that are required to implement common projects; (c) establishing mechanisms and decision-making processes that ensure efficient synchronisation and overall coordination of the implementation projects and the related investment in line with the deployment programme; (d) ensuring effective management of risks and conflict of interest; (e) advising the Commission on issues related to the implementation of common projects and to the setting up new common projects; (f) implementing Commission decisions and ensuring and monitoring their implementation by the implementation level; (g) identifying the most appropriate financing mechanisms combining public and private funding; (h) monitoring implementation of the deployment programme; (i) reporting to the Commission; (j) ensuring appropriate coordination with National Supervisory Authorities. 3. The deployment manager shall be composed of groupings of operational stakeholders or individual operational stakeholders, including from third countries, under the conditions defined in the relevant Union funding programmes. Operational stakeholders may participate in the deployment manager through FAB structures. 4. The deployment manager shall demonstrate, inter alia, its capacity to: (a) represent operational stakeholders that are required to implement common projects; (b) manage multi-national implementation programmes; (c) understand funding and financing mechanisms and financial programme management; and (d) use existing structures to involve all operational stakeholders. 5. The selection of the members of the deployment manager by the Commission shall take the form of the award of a framework partnership following a call for proposals in accordance with Article 178 of the Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 1268/2012 of 29 October 2012 on the rules of application of Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 966/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the financial rules applicable to the general budget of the Union ( 10 ) (Rules of Application). The call for proposals shall define the objectives, requirements and the criteria for the selection of the members of the deployment manager in accordance with the Rules of Application. The Single Sky Committee shall be informed on the process of selection of the deployment manager. 6. Members of the deployment manager shall carry out at least one implementation project or part of it. 7. The deployment manager shall make appropriate cooperative arrangements with the Network Manager, the SESAR Joint Undertaking and the military. The appropriate cooperative arrangements shall be submitted to the Commission for approval. The cooperation shall be as follows: (a) the deployment manager and the Network Manager shall cooperate to ensure their tasks are fulfilled without any form of duplication or competition, in particular, for the deployment aspects that have an impact on the network infrastructure, airspace organisation and performance as well as coherence with the Network Strategy Plan and the Network Operations Plan; the Network Manager shall also support, within its mandate, the members of the deployment manager in accordance with Articles 4(1)(i) and 4(3)(b) of Regulation (EU) No 677/2011; (b) the deployment manager shall cooperate with the SESAR Joint Undertaking to ensure the necessary connections between SESAR research, development, innovation and validation activities and SESAR deployment and shall consult with the SESAR Joint Undertaking on the priorities and the progress made during the development phase on issues related to industrialisation and to ensure consistency with the ATM Master Plan; (c) the deployment manager shall coordinate with the military to avoid any adverse impact on national and collective defence capabilities. 8. The deployment manager shall duly take into account the opinion of the entities referred to in paragraph 7 in its decisions that may impact the activities of these entities. 9. In the event of disagreement between the deployment manager and the entities referred to in paragraph 7 the deployment manager shall submit the matter to the Commission for a decision. The deployment manager shall comply with the Commission’s decision. 10. The deployment manager shall seek assistance from the manufacturing industry, through cooperative arrangements, which shall be communicated to the Commission, to receive, inter alia, information on the industrialisation of products. 11. Subject to the availability of funds and under the conditions set out in the relevant Union funding Programme, the Commission shall provide financial support to the deployment manager solely for the execution of its tasks referred to in paragraph 2.