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In the wake of the decision of the ICAO 39th Assembly to take global ICAO work on aviation security to the next level, the Global Aviation Security Plan (GASeP) was developed and approved by the Council of ICAO in November 2017.…
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Runway safety is a significant area of interest for the industry due to the frequency of accidents in the runway environment; the area includes runway excursions, runway collisions, undershoot/overshoots, tail strikes and hard landing…
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Since the Linate accident in 2001 EUROCONTROL has been working with ICAO and other partner organisations to reduce the safety risk caused by runway incursions and runway excursions. As an active member of the Runway Safety Action Plan…
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The Twenty-eighth Meeting of the Meteorology Group (METG/28) of the European Air Navigation Planning Group (EANPG) was held at the ICAO EUR/NAT Office, Paris, France from 18 to 21 September 2018. The Meeting was attended by a total of…
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In October 2010, the 37th ICAO Assembly Resolution on environmental and climate change invited Member States to submit their national Action Plans for reducing international civil aviation CO2 emissions. Following this invitation, in 2013…
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In 1949, Israel joined ICAO, five years after the inception of the organization and only one year after we became a nation. Aviation has always been a crucial and strategic lifeline to our country, and a major international gateway for…
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Indeed, a technical assistance mission was conducted in Kazakhstan from July to October 2015 in the frame of the ICAO EUR/NAT Technical Assistance project 15/601. This project was in addition to the on-going ICAO Technical Cooperation…
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Under the global “No Country Left Behind” (NCLB) initiative, the EUR/NAT Office of ICAO developed a regional capacity building programme (i.e. the EUR/NAT Technical Assistance Programme /TAP). Implementation of this programme is ensured by…
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During the 70th anniversary celebrations of the ICAO EUR/ NAT Office, the Regional Director of the ICAO Office, Mr. Luis Fonseca de Almeida, and the Director of State Civil Aviation Administration (SCAA), Republic of Azerbaijan, Mr. Arif…
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To help navigate these changing times and ensure that parts of society are not left behind by the fast pace of technological development, in 2015, the world’s governments, through the United Nations, agreed on the 2030 Agenda for…
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