The European Commission has today proposed to set tough new standards to regulate the operations of civil drones (or "remotely piloted aircraft sytems" – RPAS). The new standards will cover safety, security, privacy, data protection, insurance and liability. The aim is to allow European industry to become a global leader in the market for this emerging technology, while at the same time ensuring that all the necessary safeguards are in place.
Civil drones are increasingly being used in Europe, in countries such as Sweden, France and the UK, in different sectors, but under a fragmented regulatory framework. Basic national safety rules apply, but the rules differ across the EU and a number of key safeguards are not addressed in a coherent way.
The new standards will cover the following areas:
- Strict EU wide rules on safety authorisations.
- Tough controls on privacy and data protection.
- Controls to ensure security.
- A clear framework for liability and insurance.
- Streamlining R&D and supporting new industry.
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Guys and girls please be mindful of your language we do have younger robotics enthusiasts visiting this site.
i dont want to say it..but i ll tell it ...fuck stupid european politicians..i am greek not european...i don t like european laws.evertyhing it good only for big industries ...nothing else..
A petition doesn't help against the EU Commission because the EUC is under no democratic control.
Additionally, now we have elections to the EU parliament coming up in 2014, so political parties need to show profile and action. And drones - or - drone-related privacy panic are a major topic of the whole green and left spectrum as well as drones are a major topic for the conservative spectrum who traditionally wants to please big corporations and is suspicious of certain technologies in the hand of citizens (keyword drone-journalism, etc.)
But I am working already for over 7 months on that topic and will soon go hot with a campaign. Give me a bit more time. We're dealing with well funded lobby organizations which have huge corporations behind them and a very complex bureaucratic apparatus which is convinced of the validity of it's self-legitimation.
Insurance costs is the least of the problems here.
Great comments, thanks:
I need nothing to add.
And yes you are right about the EU Commission it’s NOT democratically elected body.
Keep it up, great work!!
It's forbidden temporarily until new regulation be adopted (june or july) and only for professional purposes. For recreative uses, there are multiple local regulations, but basically, we can only fly in rc airfields. Not to fly over people, constructions, roads, events etc
I think there is no problem if you fly in your backyard. But if your neighbour claims you, may you have problems.
Sorry to add on top of what has already been very well said by Stefan, but this should be known,
EU bureaucracy now has reached its critical mass that makes it self-sustaining brainless system with no more individuals controlling it. It lives by itself, for itself. It will become progressively, also becasue of passive and oblivious citizens, an authoritarian regime imposing its "out-of-touch" regulations on all european countries and people. There is such a huge gap between people's voice and unlected inhuman (literally) self-deciding supra-national bodies that, as a result, they are killing free entrepreneurship, killing our jobs, killing our economies. Or is it a voluntray intent to better enslave obidient people?
I would have prefered the rise of the drones for its outstanding economy development potential but instead we've got the rise of bureaucrats...
There's yet another reason why an EU regulation makes absolutely no sense:
Difference in infrastructure and culture.
For example, restricting hobby UAVs to model airfields (as now in Spain) might make sense in countries with high population density, but e.g. for Finland such a regulation would pretty much make any R/C hobby illegal outside of Helsinki. We don't have a whole lot of model airfields here and people would need to drive tens or even hundreds of kilometers to find one. Or found a local club to run one but that in a small town with maybe 5 or 10 hobbyists?
That's another aspect of the EU in general. EU politicians dream of themselves as the "government of Europe" and want to regulate every little bit centrally although very often that simply doesn't work.
IMHO they should stick to creating e.g. product safety standards like for motorbike helmets or toys. For that, centralized standards are great, reduce bureaucracy and save money.
But leave lawmaking to the elected governments of the countries which know their people and requirements!
And finally - just as a sidenote...:
Who the hell is this EU Commission to make laws and regulation anyways?
Are you guys aware that they are no democratically elected body? Nope, they aren't! They are a bunch of bureaucrats, basically, hired employees which are under no democratic control whatsoever and yet they have the power to make laws (by writing "directives" which the member states must implement as local law) and even enforce those by dragging a member state in front of the EU Court of Justice.
Yes
It was yesterday
You can take a look at the spanish publication by AESA here
http://www.seguridadaerea.gob.es/media/4229776/el_uso_de_los_drones...
We'll see
Well Spain just closed its airspace for civil UAS
http://www.suasnews.com/2014/04/28497/spanish-air-safety-agency-aes...
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