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Brussels, 9 December 2020: Five leading European aviation associations, representing aircraft manufacturers, airlines, airports and air navigation service providers have welcomed the ambition of the European Commission’s Sustainable and Smart Mobility Strategy, published earlier today. The Strategy is aligned with and reinforces the sector’s existing commitments towards a sustainable post-crisis future for aviation - and sets the stage for concrete decarbonisation proposals which will be unveiled next month.

8 December 2020 – The rollout is a special symbolic moment that represents a milestone in the life of an aeronautical program. It is a milestone eagerly awaited by our customers, partners and employees, united around the new aircraft that will soon be ready for takeoff.

10 November 2020 - ASD and the Top leaders of European Aerospace & Defence Industry have confirmed on 16th of October their full engagement to the European Pact for Skills plan for their relative eco-systems highlighting the crucial need to collectively address our unprecedented challenges.

18 November 2020 - A pioneering research study in the UK which aims to make operating theatres safer places during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond, by using cameras normally used to test jet engines.

12 November 2020 - Ground tests with 100% Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) to demonstrate Rolls-Royce engines can unlock SAF’s potential to reduce emissions. As part of its ongoing decarbonisation strategy, Rolls-Royce is to use 100% sustainable aviation fuel for the first time in engine ground tests on next-generation engine technology.

16 November 2020 – Over 20 associations collectively representing the entire European aviation ecosystem have announced a joint commitment to work with policy makers to achieve net zero CO2 emissions by 2050.

10 November 2020 – Mr Micael Johansson – CEO of SAAB and Board Member of the Aerospace and Defence Industries Association of Europe (ASD) –, represented the Aerospace & Defence (A&D) ecosystem during the launch event of the Pact for Skills.

16 October 2020 – The ASD President and ASD Secretary General today took part in the High-Level Roundtable on Skills for the Aerospace & Defence sectors, together with several CEOs from ASD member companies.

Brussels, 29 September 2020: ASD welcomes the launch of the European Raw Materials Alliance (ERMA) by Commissioner Thierry Breton today and is pleased to be one of the trade associations officially supporting ERMA.

Brussels, 21 September 2020: ASD joined a coalition of 40 industry organisations to write a letter to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen calling for decisive action to solve issues within the EU Waste Framework Directive (WFD), specifically the Substances of Concern in Products (SCIP) database. 

Brussels, 21 September 2020 – Mr Alessandro Profumo, CEO of Leonardo was elected President of ASD at today's board meeting. Related to this appointment Mr Profumo addresses in this video the many strategic challenges and opportunities that lies ahead.

Brussels, 21 September 2020 – ASD is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr Alessandro Profumo, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Italy-based multinational Leonardo, as President of the AeroSpace and Defence Industries Association of Europe (ASD).

Toulouse, 21 September 2020 - Airbus has revealed three concepts for the world’s first zero-emission commercial aircraft which could enter service by 2035.

Brussels, 18 September 2020: Over 20 travel and tourism bodies as well as unions across Europe united today in an unprecedented call for European Commission leadership to replace  quarantine restrictions with  an EU Testing Protocol for Travel in a bid to save the livelihoods of more than 27 million Europeans who work in the sector.

September 9, 2020 - The 200th meeting of the Airworthiness Committee

July 3, 2020 - ASD addressed the Brexit negotiators on the EU and the UK side.

June 24, 2020 - Can you really turn rubbish into jet fuel? Can potato skins power a plane? Can you capture carbon from the air and create fuel out of it? Here’s everything you need to know about Sustainable Aviation Fuels, and why they’re one of the ways the aviation industry is working to decarbonise flight.

June 25, 2020 - "Recovery should not come at the expense of defence", says Jan Pie.  The COVID-19 pandemic represents an unprecedented crisis and has led to a sharp downturn of the world economy. Serving exclusively public customers and operating with long programme cycles, the defence sector has not yet faced the same market meltdown as many other industries. However, defence companies do not operate in isolation. Most of them have also civil activities or belong to wider industrial holdings that operate on commercial markets.

June 24, 2020 - European aviation unites in calls for support for green recovery from COVID-19

Chemicals are an essential component of our daily lives, but some chemicals contain serious risks to health or the environment. The EU Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals Regulation (REACH) is an EU regulation (in force since 2007) adopted to improve protection of human health and the environment, while enhancing the competitiveness of the EU chemicals industry. Chemicals used in industrial processes, but also substances used in cleaning products, paints, textiles, electrical appliances etc.