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/30^th November 2017, REUTERS by Julia Fioretti/ Drone owners in Europe will have to register their devices if “dangerous” and aircraft makers ensure that black box recordings can be downloaded in real-time if a plane is in distress under a sweeping reform of Europe’s aviation safety agency. European Union lawmakers and member states reached a tentative deal early on Thursday on a long-awaited reform of the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), which includes Europe’s first ever rules on drones.

/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 October 2017, Cho Jin-Young/ The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure & Transport holds a public hearing on drone industry development with the Korea Transport Institute and the Korea Aerospace Research Institute, reported from BusinessKorea. According to the ministry’s plan to that end, approximately one trillion won (US$0.9 billion) shall be invested for drone technology research and development until 2022 so that South Korea can rank fifth in the world in the sector and its technological strength reaches at least 90% of those of industry leaders.