Alliance for New Mobility Europe
AME
The Alliance is an organization where New Mobility public and private stakeholders come together to identify challenges, regulatory gaps and define common interests, policies and positions.
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Lobbying Activity
Meeting with Christine Berg (Head of Unit Mobility and Transport)
30 Jun 2025 · • E-conspicuity • implementation of regulatory framework • Short-term updates to EASA guidance material and acceptable means of compliance • Speeding up the creation of a European drone market
Response to Countering the potential threat from Unmanned Aircraft Systems
3 Apr 2023
The Alliance for New Mobility Europe (AME) is an association and network of companies and entities interested in the legitimate use of drones. AME welcomes the initiative since we are convinced that the development of a regulatory framework for the legitimate use of drones and of a framework to allow for countering abuse of drones has to go hand in hand. We propose that the thorough development of drone regulation to allow for the safe and efficient use of drones in the EU be accompanied in parallel with corresponding rules, tools and measures to mitigate the operation of drones for illegitimate, criminal or terrorist purposes. The opening of a European Drone Market is currently being worked on and facilitated at many levels, from the political to the technical. In this context, social acceptance is repeatedly stressed as a key factor that will be decisive for a broad or more limited roll out of drone service under the rules on drone regulation that are currently being developed. A key element in gaining social acceptance for the scaled use of drones in the EU will be a broad sentiment that the abuse of drones can be adequately handled by authorities through legal means and by law enforcement. Therefore, such means and tools have to be developed in parallel to the rules for legitimate drone usage and their existence and adequacy to mitigate potential threats has to be sufficiently publicized to gain trust in societies across the EU. Such a regulatory framework would further strengthen the safe and secure use of drones.
Read full responseResponse to A Drone Strategy 2.0 for Europe
2 Jul 2021
The Alliance for New Mobility Europe (AME) welcomes the initiative for a Drone Strategy 2.0 and supports it strongly. The Roadmap for a Drone Strategy 2.0 generally sets the right frame. Following the adoption of the EASA Basic Regulation – Regulation (EU) 2018/1139 –, the European Union has so far set a regulatory framework that puts the EU in the lead for opening a functioning drone market across Europe by means of not only Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/945 and Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/947, but also Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/664 on U-space, as well as the necessary amendments to Implementing Regulations (EU) 2017/373 and (EU) No 2012/923.
However, there are still some major issues left that need to be tackled:
● common electronic conspicuity methods (e.g. ADS-B, FLARM etc.);
● a higher level of automatisation in relation to, for instance, data machine readability;
● more coherence between Member States’ room for discretion in the definition of UAS geographical zones and designation of U-space airspace(s) as regards security, privacy, and environmental requirements, to enable more cross-border operations and easier scaling of UAS operations.
Overall, we are entering a new phase where issues of properly integrating UAS and their services into existing infrastructures and regulatory frameworks are at the forefront. AME therefore urges the European Commission, while further elaborating regulations on Innovative Air Mobility, to create mechanisms and rules to coordinate with other autonomous mobility systems (e.g. land, water) to the extent that these systems will eventually interact in the framework of, for instance, smart cities or smart ports. This concerns first and foremost joint communication standards and harmonised data exchange formats. The positioning of the Drone Strategy 2.0 as part of the Smart and Sustainable Mobility Strategy is encouraging in this context.
AME is also convinced that additional focus needs to be given to higher levels of automation and digitalisation. On the one hand, they are indispensable for economies of scale and the overall modernisation of aviation. On the other hand, addressing issues of cyber and supply chain security in the context of the growing digitalisation of mobility in general needs to go hand in hand with increasing automation and digitalisation. Potentially, major lessons can be drawn from industry 4.0 and IoT applications and subsequently implemented.
Furthermore, AME recognises that regulatory competences are distributed in the EU’s multi-governance system. However, for a well-functioning drone market a maximum of coherence of rules across all the EU is paramount. AME also recognises formats such as the UAM Initiative Cities Community (UIC2) as a useful platform for exchanging and creating coherence between major cities. Going beyond that, AME suggests to the European Commission to facilitate further formats that will inform all kinds of cities and local authorities on drone regulatory developments, foster their understanding of the regulatory needs at the local level and allow to keep a maximum of coherence between rules of local communities across the EU.
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