On receiving an invitation from your distinguished Association to come and speak to you about EUROCONTROL, I was most pleased and honoured. I am glad to be able to represent our Organisation and in the name of the Organisation I wish to thank you most warmly.

Before this gathering of legal experts I, as a technician, would fear to be presumptuous if I did not feel that nowadays no progress is conceivable without close collaboration between the legal and the technical. It is with this thought in mind that I shall lay before you some of the technical reasons which led to the setting-up of EUROCONTROL, the operation, the structure, the achievements and the future prospects of this new European Organisation for the safety of air navigation.