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Runway safety
Responsibility of the Tower is of significant and decisive importance. To continuously enhance safety at airports and their runways, EUROCONTROL – the European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation comprising 38 European Member States – adopted an action plan.
As an active member of this organisation, DFS implements its recommendations at all international airports where it is responsible for operations. One result of these recommendations was the foundation of local runway safety teams at all airports. These teams are made up of representatives of DFS, airport operators, airlines, flight operations, flight training centres and other organisations involved at the airport.
The tasks and objectives of these runway safety teams are to communicate, process and implement EUROCONTROL's action plan. If necessary, they have to initiate measures and information campaigns in order to enhance safety at the airport. The runway safety committee at the DFS Headquarters in Langen, near Frankfurt, coordinates the local runway safety teams.
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