Drones: commercial or recreational use and safety
As commercial services using drones take off and their recreational use becomes ever more popular, it must be ensured that they pose no threat to public safety or personal privacy, say MEPs in a draft resolution to be debated and put to the vote on Thursday.
Clear EU and global rules would allow industry to make timely investment decisions, says the draft resolution on safe use of drones in civil aviation. These rules would also make it easier for drone manufacturers and providers of services such as media production, precision farming, safety inspections or monitoring of power and transport infrastructure, to sell goods and services in other EU countries, MEPs add.
However, to ensure that drones avoid no-fly zones over critical infrastructure, other aircraft and also to prevent their illegal use, the development and use of detect-and-avoid, anti-jamming, geo-fencing and anti-hijacking technologies should also be supported, MEPs stress. Drone design standards should be developed to help to ensure effective privacy and data protection, they add.
Procedure: non-legislative resolution
Debate: Thursday, 29 October
Vote: Thursday, 29 October
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