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ATIONS AND EXPLANATIONS A6. Alliance within SESAR focussed on technological development. A6 consists of fifteen air traffic service providers and two associate members. AAS. Airspace Architecture Study. A proposal for how Europe's airspace should be designed over the mid-term, from the years 2025 to 2035. A and B events. An international system for categorisation of events based on their impact on aviation safety. ANSP. Air Navigation Services Provider, provider of air traffic service. ATCC. Air Traffic Control Center, control centre for air traffic control. ATM. Air Traffic Management, air traffic control. ATS. Air Traffic Services. BOREALIS. The Borealis Alliance Europa is an association consisting of providers of air traffic services in nine countries in Northern Europe: Ireland, the United Kingdom, Iceland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Estonia and Latvia. Operative concept for collaboration. CANSO. Civil Air Navigation Services Organisation. International cooperation organisation for air traffic service providers. CNS. Communication Navigation Surveillance. Common Requirements. The EU Commission's 2017 implemented regulation on common requirements for providers of air traffic control service/air traffic services and other network functions for air traffic control service, on supervision of its providers. COOPANS. Collaboration between the six air traffic service providers in Sweden, Denmark, Ireland, Austria, Portugal and Croatia. Joint technical development. DK-SE-FAB. Shared Danish-Swedish airspace. LFV and Denmark's Naviair operated a joint air traffic service in the shared airspace under the jointly owned company NUAC until 1 September 2019. EASA. European Aviation Safety Agency. Europe's aviation safety authority. EN ROUTE. Flight on routes between airports. Traffic is controlled from a control centre. EUROCONTROL. Eurocontrol coordinates European aviation traffic. Eurocontrol does not have a legislated mandate but works to harmonise and develop air traffic services in the member countries. Almost 40 states are members. FAB. Functional Airspace Block. The Danish-Swedish airspace is a FAB. 78 FDP. Flight Data Processor. FRA. Free route airspace. Straight flight routes that mean shorter flight paths and lower emissions. GSF. Common service functions. Shared resource for LFV and the Swedish Maritime Administration for economic administration, etc. IATA. International Air Transport Association. Coordinating association of the airlines. ICAO. International Civil Aviation Organization. UN body for aviation. MSSR. Monopulse secondary surveillance radar or secondary radar. Detects objects in the air and data from a transponder. PSR. Primary Surveillance Radar or primary radar. Detects objects in the air. RP. Reference Period. EU establishes goals for providers of air traffic services during a reference period. RP3, reference period 3, begins on 1 January 2020. RAT method. Risk Analysis Tool. Method for systematic classification of safety-related events within aviation. RTS. Remote Tower Services, remote air traffic control. RTC. Remote Tower Centre. The control centre in Sundsvall for RTS. LFV is building a new RTS at Arlanda for remote air traffic control for the four Swedavia airports in Kiruna, Umeå, Östersund and Malmö. SAARP. Stockholm Arlanda Airspace Redesign Program. Project led by Swedavia for supervision of Stockholm's airspace. LFV is a subcontractor providing expertise in airspace and flight routes. SDATS. Saab Digital Air Traffic Solutions. Company for development, marketing, sales and operation of remote air traffic control. It is owned by LFV and Saab. SES. Single European Sky. EU's endeavour to reduce the number of airspace units in Europe that are national, with a few exceptions. SESAR. Single European Sky ATM Research. Collective European programme to increase the capacity of the airspace whilst maintaining safety, reducing the aviation's environmental impact and cutting costs of air traffic control in half. TFÖ. Total defence exercise. TFÖ2020 is being conducted in 2020. VCS system. Voice Communication System. WAM. Wide Area Multilateration. A type of radar.