EUR/NAT Newsletter Volume 3 - May 2018

EURNAT Vol 3

OPENING REMARKS OF THE REGIONAL DIRECTOR, ICAO EUR/NAT OFFICE

Luis Fonseca de Almeida May 1, 2018

In recent years, several tragic events have shown that civil aviation remains a target for terror attacks and this has brought attention on the importance and necessity of the security of people…

Europe and North Atlantic

Six Years Of Aviation Security And Facilitation – Developments, Success And Challenges

General Interest

ICAO Career Profile: My First Year with the Organization

Security & Facilitation

The GASeP Implementation Conference for the EUR/NAT Regions

Technical Cooperation

The GASeP Implementation Conference – Portugal’s Perspective

Cybersecurity in Aviation – EU Approach

Digitalisation is already a major enabler for transport systems globally and its importance is bound to increase exponentially in the future.…

Air Traffic Management Security: Genesis, Evolution, and Future Challenges

Air traffic management (ATM) security is a major component of overall aviation security management. To date, a high level of consistency has been…

Risks Associated with the Carriage of Portable Electronic Devices in Checked Baggage

Faced with new safety hazards as well as with a variety of potential acts of unlawful interference, the aviation community needs to constantly assess…

Aviation Security and Facilitation: Two Sides of a Coin – Facilitation in the EUR/NAT Office

The 38th Session of the ICAO Assembly, which was held from 24 September to 4 October 2013, established an equal footing between Aviation Security…

Aviation Security is an Important Component of Sustainable and Safe Development of Aviation

During the Regional Aviation Security Conference held in November 2011 in Moscow, Russian Federation, States recognized the need to expand regional…

NEWS FROM THE ICAO EUR/NAT OFFICE

On 1 March 2018, I was appointed Deputy Regional Director of the ICAO Regional Office which is accredited to States in the European and North Atlantic…

INTER-REGIONAL APAC/EUR/MID SWIM WORKSHOP

The Inter-regional APAC/EUR/MID Workshop on ‘Service improvement through integration of AIM, MET and ATM Information Services’ (SWIM) was successfully…

ICAO AVIATION DATA AND ANALYSIS SEMINAR

The first ICAO Aviation Data and Analysis seminar was organized and held at the ICAO EUR NAT Regional Office, from 4 to 6 April 2018. It was a joint…

CORSIA REGIONAL SEMINAR

Climate change is a global problem, which requires global efforts. The CORSIA is a global market-based measure designed to offset international…

VOLCANIC ASH EXERCISES IN THE EUR/NAT REGIONS – VOLCEX 17

Consistent with the mandate of the European Air Navigation Planning Group (EANPG) Programme Coordinating Group (COG) and the North Atlantic (NAT)…

VOLKAM18

VOLKAM18 was successfully conducted from 19 to 20 April 2018 which exercised several objectives related to aviation stakeholders’ response to two…

ICAO EUR/NAT TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAMME MISSION TO AZERBAIJAN

The ICAO EUR/NAT Office is implementing a regional Technical Assistance Programme (EUR/NAT TAP) under the No Country Left Behind (NCLB) global…

States Corner

A glimpse of key events in European and North Atlantic aviation.

Insider Threat – Challenges for an Established System

Imagine the following situation: in a sports competition, say skiing or cycling, two physically and mentally equal athletes using the same equipment…