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AMROBA on Harmonisation - In the Breaking News section off the AMROBA website KC & Co have put out a new paper:

Breaking News 

Harmonisation
March 14, 2016March 14, 2016 Ken Cannane
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Harmonisation once meant adopting the "highest practicable degree of uniformity in regulations, standards and procedures" from the ICAO international aviation standards and recommended practices.

Challenge: The Civil Aviation Act says "consistent with" not "adopt". However, any reasonable person in aviation would assume "consistent with" means "adopting" when Article 37 of an aviation treaty signed by Australia states "adopt".

The government agreed to harmonisation with ICAO international aviation standards initially in 1947 when Australia ratified the International Convention of Civil Aviation and, up until the formation of the CAA, aviation requirements harmonised to a far greater extent than current regulations and standards – so what has gone wrong since 1988?

 
{P2 Comment - Here is a link for the latest list of Australian notified differences - https://www.airservicesaustralia.com/aip/current/sup/s15-h104.pdf. Note the AIP SUPP is now four pages of relevant links to individual Annex differences. The reasoning for the change to the SUPP, listed at Para 1.2, is absolute bollocks, this is just another cynical attempt to cover up the embarrassing number (over a 1000) of notified differences to ICAO SARPs}    

Australia's Civil Aviation Safety Regulation review started in 1988, but still has no end in sight.


CASA lacks Expertise to adopt ICAO Standards: AMROBA
17 Mar 2016

As Ken suggests the harmonisation to ICAO SARPs, or for that matter a regional rule set that complies with the ICAO SARPs (i.e. NZ CAA), is not a new or even innovative concept, it just makes common sense in the interest of uniformity across international airspace & with economic trade/transactions with fellow signatory neighbouring States.

The following is an example of another ICAO signatory State who 'gets' the importance of harmonisation with regulatory standards:

International aviation experts to propose modern safety strategies

Posted 11 April 2016 · Add Comment

International aviation specialists will convene this April at the 4th edition of the World Aviation Safety Summit, to propose new procedures for enhancing a culture of safety across the industry. 


Global experts will analyse how the sector can ensure that safety is standardised and best practice is implemented worldwide, particularly as airlines in emerging markets grow in size and routes open to airports in new destinations. 


Latest figures released by IATA show January international passenger traffic rose 7.3% compared to the year-ago period. Capacity rose 5.9% and load factor rose 1.0 percentage point to 78.8%. All global regions recorded year-over-year increases in demand. 


Safety thought-leaders attending the Summit will look at how airlines and airports can measure their own performance, and implement effective predictive measures and pressure checks to prevent and pre-empt incidents.


High on the agenda will also be debates on how regulators can effectively work with airlines to improve safety and how governments can harmonise national laws and regulations with those of industry leading states. As conflicts around the world continue to effect air transport travel, industry frontrunners will deliberate on how best to deal with armed conflicts and work together to ensure operations continue to run smoothly and ensure the safety and security of all passengers.   


Mohammed A. Ahli, director general at Dubai Civil Aviation Authority commented: “As the aviation industry continues to grow and become more complex it is important that we reinforce an effective, transparent and honest safety culture. The Summit will give us the opportunity to look at the best practice examples of working with large multicultural workforces and how we can overcome common industry challenges.”


The International Air Transport Association’s (IATA) most recent Operational Safety Audit showed a moderate climb in safety world-wide. The 2015 global jet accident rate (measured in hull losses per 1 million flights) was 0.32, which was the equivalent of one major accident for every 3.1 million flights. This was an unambiguous improvement compared to the previous five-year rate (2010-2014) of 0.46 hull loss accidents per million jet flights.


- See more at: http://www.arabianaerospace.aero/interna...0ObUc.dpuf

   
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