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Things that make you go Hmmm?? - AIP GEN 1.7 rest of the World continued/-

The latest ICAO member State publication (I can find) that summarises both the importance and principles of a member State being compliant with the ICAO standards and notifying a difference to those standards, is from the Oman PACA (Public Authority for Civil aviation) December 2019 document 'Procedures Manual for the Notification and Publication of Significant Differences':

1. Foreword

These procedures have been adapted from ICAO Doc 10055 Manual on Notification and
Publication of Differences and associated procedures in Doc 8126.

Standards and Recommended Practices (SARPs) are technical specifications adopted by the
Council of ICAO in accordance with Article 37 of the Convention on International Civil Aviation
(Chicago Convention) in order to achieve "the highest practicable degree of uniformity in
regulations, standards, procedures and organization in relation to aircraft, personnel, airways and
auxiliary services in all matters in which such uniformity will facilitate and improve air navigation".

SARPs are critical to ICAO Member States and other stakeholders, given that they provide the
fundamental basis for harmonized global aviation safety and efficiency in the air and on the
ground, the worldwide standardization of functional and performance requirements of air
navigation facilities and services, and the orderly development of air transport.

Furthermore, ICAO publish Procedures for Air Navigation Services (PANS) which are documents
approved by the ICAO counsel and recommended to states for worldwide application. As such
they attempt to make air navigation services uniform across the world.

The establishment and maintenance of international Standards and Recommended Practices
(SARPs), as well as Procedures for Air Navigation (PANS), are fundamental tenets of the
Convention on International Civil Aviation and a core aspect of ICAO’s mission and role in ensuring
civil aviation may be developed in a safe and orderly manner and that international air transport
services may be established on the basis of equality of opportunity and operated soundly and
economically.

While the implementation of Standards is considered, by definition, obligatory, the Chicago
Convention also recognizes, through Article 38, that there are instances when this is impracticable
or it is necessary to adopt regulations or practices differing from those established by Standards.

When this occurs the State is required to notify the difference to ICAO and publish details of the
difference in the National AIP to provide flight crews, and other stakeholders, with information
which is essential to international operations, and which is not readily available.

Oman's GEN 1.7 consists of 3 pages: https://www.caa.gov.om/upload/files/AIP%...%201.7.pdf

Also from the Middle East, Jordan's CAA has 6 pages: https://carc.gov.jo/pdf/GEN_1.7_Diffrenc...edures.pdf

Nepal, a developing Asian country, also has a 6 page GEN 1.7: https://e-aip.caanepal.gov.np/_uploads/_...48eb67.pdf

Much MTF...P2