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/16^th November 2017, DRONE MARKET WATCH^TM/ Drones, or remotely piloted aircraft systems (RPAS), as they are known, are no longer used solely by the military. In the UK alone, there are now hundreds of companies, mainly SMEs, using RPAS to provide a range of services, including photography, land surveying, building inspection and crop analysis. RPAS will revolutionise what the aviation industry can achieve and how it is regulated. Europe Union already took a number of regulatory initiatives in order to reap the future benefits of this exciting new technology.

/16^th June 2016, DRONE MARKET WATCH^TM/ The potential business opportunities generated by the drone industry has eventually pushed for the mushrooming of research and development activities at EU, national and regional level. However, many of these activities emerged in a disparate manner hampering the creation of necessary synergies between them, thinning their disruptive potential.