Civil aviation in the EU and the CR from the perspective of Union law

143 Abstract The present diploma thesis is dedicated to European civil aviation and in particular to the regulation of provision of air navigation services and air traffic management. The purpose of the thesis is to analyse the evolution of the legislative reform of air navigation services and air traffic management in Europe with a focus on the influence of European Union law through the initiative "Single European Sky". Next, the thesis aims to study the main elements of the modernisation efforts and to point at the transformation of the situation and relationships between the relevant stakeholders as results from the new form of the regulatory and institutional framework. First chapter presents the principle of state sovereignty over the airspace which constitutes the fundamental principle of aviation law. Second chapter treats air navigation services and the legal regulation of their provision according to the Convention on International Civil Aviation. The following chapter introduces the summary of main organisations involved in civil aviation focussing on ICAO, EUROCONTROL, European Union, its status, the systematics of EU law and on the European Aviation Safety Agency. The fourth chapter discusses the EU common transport policy in the field of air transport, the progressive air transport..