Spain
Implementing U-space requires the development of a national policy and strategy that considers issues such as security, economic growth or territorial policy. Spain is therefore working on developing a U-space deployment plan to establish the basis for its implementation.
As for the service provision model, Spain has always advocated a centralised solution, at least during the initial stages of U-space deployment.
AESA, Spain's national supervision authority, actively contributed to developing the U-space regulation at European level. Likewise, it is currently contributing to the development of this regulation’s acceptable means of compliance/guidance material through several EASA working groups, including WP10 CISP in charge of developing the regulation framework for common information service providers.
AESA's participation in the following is also worth highlighting: the AURA initiative, focused on the interface between U-space and ATM; the DOMUS project, which provided drone traffic management in emergency situations and urban scenarios; and Vodafone's 5G project in the city of Benidorm, as well as its participation in national working groups to promote the new regulatory framework.
ENAIRE, the leading Spanish air navigation service provider, is working on the development and deployment of tools for the safe integration of drones in airspace: ENAIRE Drones in 2018 and ENAIRE PLANEA in 2020, to improve the provision of aviation information and the management of requests for drone operations.
ENAIRE has also contributed to developing the U-space regulation and has collaborated in SESAR projects such as AURA and DOMUS, which it led in 2019, as well as UAM projects such as AMU-LED, CORSUS-XUAM or Uspace4UAM.
At present, it is working on developing a U-space platform to enable the fast implementation in Spain of the new regulatory package by following a centralised architecture, based on a single CIS provider.
