1 Doc 9921 SUPPLEMENT August 2010 ASSEMBLY THIRTY-SEVENTH SESSION SUPPLEMENTARY REPORT ON ACTIVITIES OF THE ORGANIZATION IN THE FIRST HALF OF 2010 STRATEGIC OBJECTIVE A SAFETY High-level Safety Conference From 29 March to 1 April, ICAO held a High-level Safety Conference which was attended by 551 participants, including Ministers and Directors General of Civil Aviation from 117 Member States as well as representatives from 32 international organizations. The Conference called on ICAO to facilitate the collection, analysis and dissemination of safety information provided by States and industry partners and resulted in a strong mandate for the Organization to create a strategy to further reduce the global accident rate through the sharing of safety-related information among Member States and the air transport industry. Universal Safety Oversight Audit Programme USOAP Comprehensive Systems Approach CSA The current six-year cycle of the USOAP-CSA audits is set to conclude at the end of 2010. In the first six months of 2010, fourteen States received CSA audits, bringing the total number of completed safety oversight audits to 159. As of 30 June 2010, 188 of 190 Member States had provided consent for the publication of results from the CSA cycle of audits. The relevant information is posted on the ICAO Flight Safety Information Exchange FSIX website www.icao.int/FSIX. Under the direction of the Assembly and the Council of ICAO, development began of a continuous monitoring approach CMA for the continuation of the USOAP beyond 2010. Guidance material on the CMA is currently being prepared and will be provided to all ICAO Member States. A transition period to the new approach, during which various intervention activities will be carried out, will begin in 2011. One intervention activity will be ICAO Coordinated Validation Missions ICVMs. These are currently being tested and two ICVMs were carried out during the first six months of 2010.
2 DOC 9921 SUPPLEMENT AUGUST 2010 Two more State officials, seconded to ICAO on a long-term basis by the Bahamas and Saudi Arabia, joined the USOAP in March. This brings the total number of long-term seconded experts currently working in the USOAP to eight. Safety data analysis Consistent with safety management principles, ICAOs Integrated Safety Trend Analysis and Reporting System iSTARS is under development. iSTARS offers analysis capability for monitoring the achievement of global safety objectives through the assessment of numerous criteria. Considering the complexity of todays global air navigation system, the analysis of diverse types of data is essential to accurately correlate multiple attributes that, in combination, have the potential to create systemic vulnerabilities that elevate safety risks. Online Aircraft Safety Information System OASIS Background The ICAO Online Aircraft Safety Information System OASIS contains pertinent information concerning all aircraft habitually involved in international civil aviation, including registration, ownership and control, in accordance with Article 21 of the Convention on International Civil Aviation. The OASIS was developed with the capability to establish unique identifiers for aircraft using two fields of data that, when combined, uniquely identify all aircraft entered into the database, regardless of their current registration marks. A history of aircraft ownership and control will thus be available. Data to support this system are provided by States using the ICAO web-based system. As an alternative to providing the data directly to ICAO through the organizations web-based system, States may format their data using software labels provided by ICAO, upon request, or an ICAO accredited service provider, currently the International Register of Civil Aircraft IRCA. The OASIS database is available only to Member States for the purpose of identifying ownership and control of an aircraft. System development During 2010, work on the aircraft registration component of the OASIS included establishing a facility to automatically receive data updates from IRCA into ICAOs database formulating online queries and printed reports for States developing a tool allowing States to format and send their data from their existing database to ICAO and adjusting the system to provide a desirable response time for States. It is expected that the OASIS will be operational in July 2010.
DOC 9921 SUPPLEMENT AUGUST 2010 3 International Register of Air Operator Certificates AOCs ICAO is establishing an international register of AOCs to facilitate the surveillance of foreign operators. The project will take place in two development phases. Phase I consists of the implementation of a database to collect, from the States of the Operator, the AOC and operations specifications content required by the Standards and Recommended Practices SARPs in Annex 6 Operation of Aircraft. This project is supported by the Civil Aviation University of China CAUC and the International Air Transport Association IATA. A Letter of Intent was signed on 17 May 2010 by ICAO, the CAUC and IATA and development will begin in July 2010. It is expected that the register will be operational by the second quarter of 2011. The register will be linked to the ICAO Online Aircraft Safety Information System OASIS. Phase II is to take place when stakeholders are using the register on a regular basis. It would entail the definition of an additional data set and associated register functionalities to provide sufficient data to enhance and facilitate international civil aviation operations and their surveillance. The fifth edition of the Manual of Procedures for Operations Inspection, Certification and Continued Surveillance Doc 8335 was published in English and will be published in the other official languages when translated. This manual provides guidance material for the oversight of national operators, including certification and surveillance. It now also contains material for the surveillance of foreign operators, including guidance on actions to be taken as a result of findings during ramp inspections. Additional guidance is also provided regarding leasing agreements. Next Generation of Aviation Professionals NGAP Close collaboration between ICAO and the International Air Transport Association IATA Training and Qualifications Initiatives ITQI continued. Work progressed specifically on the development of guidance material for inclusion in the Procedures for Air Navigation Services Training PANS-TRG, Doc 9868 on competency-based training and assessment of maintenance personnel, evidence-based training for flight crew, and instructor and examiner qualifications. The NGAP Task Force was established in May 2009 to complement and expand the work undertaken by the ITQI. The Task Force consists of participants from regulatory organizations, industry, international associations, universities and training providers. The Task Force addressed three areas of activities human resource planning, training and learning methodologies and mobilization of the next generation. In March, ICAO held a symposium on NGAP. The theme was Looking beyond the economic crisis mobilizing the aviation community to recruit, educate, train and retain the next generation of aviation professionals. The event brought
4 DOC 9921 SUPPLEMENT AUGUST 2010 together 403 participants from 71 States and 14 international organizations. Especially noteworthy was the participation of over 80 students involved in aviation-related university and college programmes. Following the symposium, the NGAP Task Force focused its work on the development of competencies for flight crew, air traffic management professionals and maintenance personnel. The Task Force supported the development of a policy and criteria for a voluntary ICAO training endorsement mechanism and developed an outreach programme to the next generation of aviation professionals. Dangerous goods A new dangerous goods training programme was launched. The programme consists of a training manual and a course which will assist States in complying with the broad principles governing the international transport of dangerous goods by air outlined in Annex 18 The Safe Transport of Dangerous Goods by Air and detailed in the Technical Instructions for the Safe Transport of Dangerous Goods by Air Doc 9284. The programme is directed towards safety inspectors responsible for dangerous goods, but it would benefit anyone with a need for knowledge of the detailed provisions in the Technical Instructions. Information on the programme can be found on the ICAO public website at www.icao.int/anb/fls/dangerousgoods/training. Performance-based navigation PBN implementation To assist States in their PBN implementation, ICAO planned PBN airspace design workshops, PBN operational approval courses and continuous descent operations workshops. These educational efforts were coordinated with the Cooperative Development of Operational Safety and Continuing Airworthiness Programme COSCAP, the European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation EUROCONTROL and the United States Federal Aviation Administration FAA. In addition, three PBN Go-Team visits are planned for late 2010. Furthermore, the first Flight Procedure Office was opened in Beijing in April, with a second planned in Africa. Technical cooperation projects and activities During the 1 January to 30 June 2010 period, there were 60 national and 20 regional active technical cooperation projects contributing to further improving aviation safety around the world. Major achievements over the period included establishment of the Banjul Accord Group Aviation Safety Oversight Organization BAGASOO and the Banjul Accord Group Accident Investigation Agency BAGAIA, and commencement of BAGASOO operations
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