An ICAO occasion resulted in nearer collaboration on sustainability, resilience, and security amongst European, Central Asian, and North African Administrators Normal of Civil Aviation (DGCA) concluded on 23 April in Toulouse, France. The assembly, convened by ICAO’s European and North Atlantic (EUR/NAT) Workplace in Paris, offered a robust platform for advocacy in assist of air transport’s essential position as a catalyst for sustainable improvement.
Setting the scene
Underneath the theme “Becoming a member of forces and constructing bridges”, DGCAs from 38 States, together with high-level representatives from 10 worldwide and regional organizations and business companions, gathered to assist the implementation of ICAO provisions, insurance policies and programmes.
ICAO Secretary Normal Juan Carlos Salazar addressed the 97 contributors, outlining ICAO’s present priorities inside its Strategic Targets, with a concentrate on aviation decarbonization and the accelerating tempo of innovation. He additionally highlighted ICAO’s ongoing transformation into a contemporary, digital, adaptive, and collaborative group: “ICAO should embrace innovation, adapt to new challenges, and foster higher collaboration to proceed main the way in which in shaping a secure, safe, and sustainable future for worldwide civil aviation.”Mr. Salazar additionally highlighted the importance of ICAO’s eightieth anniversary, which the group is celebrating this yr.
Mr. Nicolas Rallo, the Director of ICAO’s Paris Workplace, underscored the important thing significance of cooperation in his opening remarks: “Many of the challenges confronted by civil aviation are world in nature, and due to this fact name for a worldwide and well-coordinated response. Allow us to due to this fact proceed to affix efforts and construct bridges inside and past our aviation ecosystem to attain the widest potential cooperation, and the very best degree of advantages for our States, our aviation business and our societies.”
Elections and Discussions
Mr. David Benito Astudillo, the DGCA of Spain, was elected because the EUR/NAT DGCA Chairperson. Moreover, Ms. Mirjana Čizmarov and Mr. Tahir Nazarov, DGCAs of Serbia and Uzbekistan respectively, had been elected as Vice-Chairpersons, bringing their intensive expertise and experience to their new roles.
Partaking discussions had been held round six matters: Aviation Coaching and the Subsequent Technology of Aviation Professionals (NGAP); Sustainability; Resilience; Cooperation for Implementation Help in Security; Gender Equality; and the Ratification of Worldwide Air Regulation Treaties.
The exchanges highlighted the essential significance of civil aviation for States’ socio-economic improvement and underscored the dedication of States and Organizations to work collaboratively throughout ICAO’s key targets.
The assembly was hosted by the École Nationale de l’Aviation Civile (ENAC), the biggest aviation academy in Europe and a company associate of ICAO’s TRAINAIR PLUS Programme.
The 2025 EUR/NAT DGCA Assembly is tentatively deliberate to happen in Paris in the course of the week of the Paris Air Present (16-22 June 2025).
