The Wall Street Journal says EU regulators want to examine using satellites to send real time flight data, in the way which has been suggested here:
EU Makes Push for Real-Time Flight Data - WSJ.com
The matter is on the agenda of the ICAO High-level Safety Conference which starts today in Montreal and lasts for four days, however looking at their work program, they are only going to devote a maximum of 1 hour and 15 minutes
to this subject, itīs under "safety initiatives arising from recent accidents" on Wednesday
http://www2.icao.int/en/HLSC/Work%20...%20HLSC.en.pdf