Nowadays the basis of agreements about air traffic between Ukraine and other countries are bilateral air service agreements (ASA). Aviation communication between Ukraine and EU is regulated on the basis of bilateral air service agreements (ASA) with all member states and Horizontal Agreement with the European Commission on certain aspects of air services. The last one has been developed by European Commission as model agreement that liberalizes air services between the EU and third countries, called „horizontal“. The EU also provides setting up open aviation areas (so called “open skies”) with key partners to further liberalise сertain markets on the bilateral basis by European Common Aviation Area (ECAA) agreement between the EU and third countries.
