Cologne/Brussels, March 26, 2026 – The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) and EUROCONTROL have published a joint Action Plan designed to strengthen the safety and resilience of European aviation operations amid the growing challenge of Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) interference.
GNSS provides aircraft with precise positioning, navigation and timing information that is essential for a wide range of functions. Interference with signals has become a regular occurrence, in particular on the edge of conflict zones, and poses a threat to safety. The Action Plan focuses on maintaining safety in the near term while limiting impacts on airspace capacity and containing the threat of GNSS interference. It sets out a series of measures to mitigate the threat with harmonised operational procedures and phraseologies and aims to strengthen the robustness of GNSS based operations by clearly defining who needs to act, and by when.
“While the potential threat to aviation safety from GNSS interference has so far been mitigated by short-term actions such as raising pilot awareness, it is clear that more needs to be done. This Action Plan lays out and prioritises short, mid and longer-term actions and, importantly, also assigns roles to the various aviation actors. By working together with EUROCONTROL and pooling our expertise, we have been able to create a strong plan that will enable the wider sector to come together to counter this threat.” Florian Guillermet Executive Director EASA
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