Support to the Improvement of Aviation Safety in Africa (SIASA)

European Aviation Safety Agency Strategy & Safety Management Directorate International Cooperation Department Support to the Improvement of Aviation Safety in Africa (SIASA) Progress Report - 4 Grant Contract 2012/299-316 This project is funded by the European Union and implemented by EASA

Description Name of Coordinator of the grant contract: For ACP Group: For DG DEVCO: For EASA: Name and title of the Contact person Name of Beneficiary Title of the Action Dr. Patrick I. Gomes Mr Denis Salord Mr Erick Ferrandez Contract number 2012/299-316 Mr Yves Koning, Project Manager European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) Support to the Improvement of Aviation Safety in Africa Start and end date of the reporting period 22/11/14 05/06/2015 Target countries or regions Final beneficiaries &/or target groups Countries in which the activities take place The beneficiary region is Sub-Saharan Africa with some potential components in the Caribbean and Pacific regions Regional and National Aviation Safety Oversight Organisation and their personnel In addition to the target countries/regions mentioned above, activities may also take place in EU Member States Authorisation : Name Position Date Prepared Yves Koning Project Manager 08/05/2015 Reviewed Anabel Miralles Project Assistant 09/05/2015 Authorised Yves Koning Project Manager 10/05/2015 Disclaimer: This document has been produced with the financial assistance of the European Union. The contents of this document are the sole responsibility of EASA and can under no circumstances be regarded as reflecting the position of the European Union. International Cooperation Department Page ii

Table of Contents 1 Introduction... 1 2 Assistance to States with safety concerns... 2 2.1 Past semester s activities... 2 2.2 Next semester activities... 3 3 Regulation and guidance material activities... 4 3.1 PANS-Ops procedure approval guidance material... 4 3.2 ANS regulation... 4 4 Workshop organization... 6 4.1 ATO Certification... 6 4.2 Technology evolution - Impact on airworthiness 2 nd edition... 6 5 Training activities... 8 5.1 Train the trainer course for OPS Inspectors (French speaking)... 8 5.2 AOC OPS specific approvals training... 9 5.3 Human Factors for authorities... 10 5.4 ANS Regulation... 10 6 Support to Organisations... 11 6.1 SOFIA implementation... 11 6.2 RSOO organisational assistance... 11 6.3 ECCAIRS... 11 7 Updated activity planning... 13 8 Communication and visibility... 14 Annex A. Acronyms and definitions... 15 Annex B. Exchange of letter with Sierra Leone... 17 Annex C. ATO Certification workshop Agenda structure... 22 Annex D. 2 nd Airworthiness workshop Draft Agenda... 23 Annex E. ICAO Regional Offices Airworthiness seminar - Agenda... 25 Annex F. ICAO Aviation Week Presentations May 2015... 34 International Cooperation Department Page iii

1 Introduction The grant contract between the Secretariat of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP Group) and the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) related to the Support to the Improvement of Aviation Safety in Africa (SIASA) entered into force on 6 November 2012. The contract implementation start date was on 15 January 2013 for a duration of 36 months. The beneficiaries are aviation authorities of Sub-Saharan Africa and more specifically the Regional Safety Oversight Organisations (RSOO) and Cooperative Development of Operational Safety and Continuing Airworthiness Programmes (COSCAP) of the region and national Civil Aviation Authorities (CAA). The objective of this project is as follows: Support to regional regulatory convergence and standardisation in line with international civil aviation Standards and Recommended Practices (SARPs); Support the air transport sector integration at regional level through institutional assistance and capacity building actions. The purposes of the SIASA project are as follows: To ensure the development of common regional safety standards and procedures meeting the international requirements in civil aviation (ICAO standards) and eventually the EU aviation safety rules; To contribute to the establishment of effective and sustainable RSOOs via institutional assistance and training of staff. A first report was produced in March 2013 at the end of the inception period which was discussed during the first steering committee meeting which adopted the proposed action provided some minor amendment be made to the proposed assistance to states with State Safety Concerns (SSC). Three progress report were issued respectively in October 2013, in May 2014 and in November 2014 each containing an overview of the activities carried out during the six months prior to the issue date. Each also included a description of the activities planned for the upcoming semester of the implementation phase. This report will focus on the activities implemented since November 2014 and the planning for the coming six months of the implementation phase. The structure of the report reflects the five categories of activities identified in the inception report validated during the first steering committee meeting: Assistance to States with SSCs Regulation and guidance material activities Workshop organisation Training activities Organisational activities In addition the last chapter focuses on the communication and visibility activities carried out. International Cooperation Department Page 1

2 Assistance to States with safety concerns 2.1 Past semester s activities During the last Steering Committee Meeting (SCM) in November 2014, it was decided to reallocate the money reserved for States facing the Ebola crisis to the following States: Swaziland Gabon Chad EASA informed Guinea (Conakry), Liberia and Sierra Leone of the decision made by the SCM. Sierra Leone came back to EASA expressing its disappointment. You will find in annex B the exchange of letters with this country. Should the no-cost time extension asked for by EASA for the SIASA project be granted and the SCM so wishes, assistance could be provided to Sierra Leone with the money available. Regarding the three new countries, they were informed about the decision of the SCM and they were requested to indicate to EASA in which domain they consider the assistance most valuable. In overall the six countries targeted provided the following answers: Domains Critical Elements Benin OPS QTP, TGM, LCO, CSO and RSC Chad AGA QTP, TGM, LCO, CSO and RSC Congo (Brazzaville) OPS QTP, TGM, LCO, CSO and RSC Gabon AGA QTP, TGM, LCO, CSO and RSC Mozambique AGA QTP, LCO, CSO and RSC Swaziland ANS, AGA PAL, SOR Domains: Critical Elements OPS Aircraft Operations PAL Primary Aviation Law AGA Aerodromes SOR Specific Operating Regulations ANS Air Navigation Services QTP Qualification of Technical Personnel TGM Technical Guidance Material LCO Licensing and Certification Obligation CSO Certificate Surveillance Obligation RSC Resolution of Safety Concerns On the basis of the collected information it was decided to share the same French speaking expert between Benin and Congo, and the same French speaking expert for Chad and Gabon. An English speaking legal expert was selected for Swaziland. Regarding Mozambique a closer coordination with DG MOVE had to be done. In April 2015, the Aviation Safety Unit of DG MOVE carried out an evaluation mission in Mozambique in the framework of the Air Safety List. As an outcome of this mission, it turned out that the country was already receiving assistance in the Airworthiness (AIR) field, initially through ICAO and now directly. Assistance in the Aircraft Operations (OPS) domain was also foreseen to start in September 2015. After consultation of the country it was decided to provide under the SIASA International Cooperation Department Page 2

project assistance in the AGA domain. The search for such an expert speaking Portuguese was then launched. 2.2 Next semester activities Before the launch of the assistance, available and suitable experts had to be found. The OPS expert for Benin and Congo was rather easily found. The legal expert for Swaziland was also identified within a reasonable time. The respective experts are already in contact with the beneficiary countries to prepare their first mission. More difficulties was encountered in identifying the OPS expert for Chad and Gabon. After the evaluation of several CV, the intra African solution was preferred. The UEMOA COSCAP accepted to share its AGA regional inspector to provide the assistance to Chad and Gabon. However its implication had to fit its prior commitment within the UEMOA region. We would like to take the opportunity of this report to thank UEMOA for its willingness to share its expertise with another region. The SIASA project will here serve as an enabler of this intra African cooperation which needs to be promoted. Finally, due to the fact that the SIASA team waited for the results of the evaluation mission by DG MOVE in Mozambique, the search for the expert started late. A candidate has been identified, the contractual setting is still being worked out to secure his participation. All of the selected experts have prior experience with working in Africa. This was one of the criteria for their selection. We can summarise the situation as follows: Mission 1 Mission 2 Mission 3 Mission 4 Benin July 2015 Aug./Sept. 2015 Sept./Oct. 2015 Nov. 2015 Chad July 2015 Aug. 2015 Nov. 2015 Dec. 2015 Congo (Brazza) July 2015 Aug./Sept. 2015 Sept./Oct. 2015 Nov. 2015 Gabon July 2015 Aug. 2015 Nov. 2015 Dec. 2015 Mozambique July/Aug. 2015 TBC TBC Nov. 2015 Swaziland July 2015 Aug. 2015 Sept. 2015 Nov. 2015 International Cooperation Department Page 3

3 Regulation and guidance material activities In this category, three activities were initially planned to be carried out: PANS-OPS procedure approval guidance material Flight OPS Inspector manual ANS regulation In May 2014 ICAO issued an Air Operator Certification and Surveillance Handbook. After analysis by EASA, it was deemed redundant to activate the working group on Flight OPS Inspector manual. This activity was then cancelled with the approval of the project Steering Committee. For the other activities, EASA has made every effort for the work to be carried out in collaboration with the beneficiaries and other African stakeholders. For the ANS regulation, the working group was composed of experts from the Member States of AAMAC and associated also experts from ASECNA. As for the PANS-OPS working group, its composition was decided along with the AFPP Manager. 3.1 PANS-Ops procedure approval guidance material During the past semester the working group was unable to move forward with the guidance material. The AFPP manager has been absent from office for medical reasons. This made it difficult for us to programme the second meeting of the working group. The first meeting of the working group allowed the elaboration of the main structure of the guidance material. The next meeting will focus on developing the content of the guide. It is scheduled to take place in Dakar, Senegal from 7 till 11 September 2015. The third and last meeting will be scheduled end of October or early November 2015. Regarding the issue raised in the previous progress report about the link with the AFI Planning and Implementation Regional Group (APIRG), the project will make all its efforts to liaise with this group to share information about the SIASA activities. To do so, a participation to the next meeting is foreseen. The project already participated to the previous meeting which took place late October 2013 in Dakar, Senegal. The date of the next meeting is not yet officially announced, although the information in our possession indicates that it will take place in October 2015. 3.2 ANS regulation The objective of the working group was to develop a regulation proposal on Air Navigation Service Provider (ANSP) oversight in the context of the AAMAC/ASECNA States based on the European Commission Implementing Regulations (EU) N 1034/2011 and 1035/2011. The working group met twice and completed the work. The second meeting took place in December 2014. The working group highlighted the fact that the scope of ASECNA went further than just an ANSP and covers more than ANS. The working group indicated also that the proposal developed would need to be completed by other regulation proposals to address the issues not covered like PANS-OPS, Rescue and Firefighting Services, wildlife hazard prevention, etc. The Working Group also emphasised the need to have implementation procedures and guidelines developed once the regulation is available. The draft regulation produced by the working group was done in French. The Steering Committee requested to have this work translated in English. EASA decided not to use the additional money put aside for the translation preferring to use the European expert that led International Cooperation Department Page 4

the working group along with the existing English version of EU regulations to deliver the English version of the regulation. The translation has been produced and both draft regulations can be found in a separate document which summarises the work carried out. This report will be made available not only to the Steering Committee members but also to the whole community of stakeholders. EASA would like here to highlight the fact that the completion of this task is only the first step of a longer process. It is now up to the project beneficiaries, especially the AAMAC and its Member States, to move forward with the adoption of the regulation. Without this adoption, the efforts invested in drafting the regulation will be worth nothing. In this regard, EASA has recently met Mr. Sadou Marafa, the AAMAC Executive Secretary who was recently appointed in order to brief him about the work carried out in the framework of the SIASA project and discuss with him the next steps to take toward the adoption of the regulation. International Cooperation Department Page 5

4 Workshop organization No workshop has taken place during the past semester. However, EASA has worked on the organisation of two workshops programmed to take place in the second semester of 2015, namely the workshop on Aviation Training Organisation (ATO) certification and the 2 nd edition of the airworthiness workshop. 4.1 ATO Certification The ATO Certification workshop will take place on 21 and 22 October 2015 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Different stakeholders have already been contacted to take part in this workshop as speakers. As already mentioned in the previous progress report, this workshop will be organised in close cooperation with the Association of African Aviation Training Organisations (AATO) and the Global Aviation Training (GAT) office of ICAO. The GAT office is the entity within ICAO in charge of the TRAINAIR Plus Programme. AFCAC has already indicated its interest in contributing to the event. EASA and some European member states will also be involved in this event. The SIASA project will support around 30 technical experts/inspectors from the beneficiaries CAAs and RSOOs. An additional 10 participants can be supported through the EU funded project of Central Africa. AATO will invite its members to also participate to the workshop. The attendance is forecasted to be between 50 and 80 participants. The draft agenda is being elaborated and will be send in a few weeks with the invitation letter to the beneficiaries. The structure of this agenda can be found in Annex C. It will be structured around the different steps established by ICAO for the certification of ATOs. The participants that will be supported by the projects will come from national or regional civil aviation organisations and must be involved in personnel licensing and preferably in charge of the certification of training organisations. Since this workshop will cover all the step of the certification process, junior as well as senior technical experts in this domain will be able to attend the workshop. The invitation will be sent to the beneficiary countries as well as to the RSOOs which will serve as relay to promote the participation to this event among their member states. 4.2 Technology evolution - Impact on airworthiness 2 nd edition The objective of the workshop is to raise awareness to the need of adapting the oversight activity to the impact of new technologies and concepts. Maintenance program evolution, modification control and process review have to be accounted for in an environment that is challenging because of external dependence on maintenance organizations. Following the 1 st edition of the workshop and the presentation of the results to the last SCM, EASA has worked on a document assessing the value of the event. A specific report is being provided along with this progress report. Besides that during the last SCM there was a remark regarding the successful evaluation of the event. EASA standardised its activities registration process, whereby all prospective participants must fill-in a registration form and submit their CV. Each nomination is evaluated on the basis of the CV provided and the targeted audience. On several occasions, EASA has declined the participation of nominated persons and asked the authority to designate other participants. This process is not 100% fail safe in the sense that people from the host country can show up without prior registration. This is difficult to manage. However all the SIASA supported participant go through the above mentioned selection process. International Cooperation Department Page 6

The attendance of the first workshop was limited because of travel restrictions from some countries due to the Ebola crisis and fear generated by this issue. The venue was also critical due to the fact that most non-sadc participants required a Visa which was not easy to obtain. The Ebola situation combined with the venue issue generated a rather high number of cancellations. This is why EASA suggested the organisation of a second edition of the workshop. The Steering Committee during its last meeting welcomed this possibility provided money was available. EASA is pleased to announced that this is the case and based on the invitation formulated by UEMOA during the last SCM, the next event will take place in Western Africa (Abidjan, Côte d Ivoire on 11 and 12 November 2015). The participation of Airbus has also been secured. The same presentation support (in English) will be used or might slightly be improved on the basis of the feedback received. However the speakers will use the French language. The possibility of translation will be evaluated. You will find in Annex D. the draft agenda of the second edition of the workshop. Similarly to the first edition, the targeted audience will be experienced Airworthiness or Flight OPS inspectors with a good understanding of continuing airworthiness processes or flight operations and basic knowledge of Aircraft Systems. Invitation to this second edition of the workshop will also be extended to Industry airworthiness personnel (at their own cost). International Cooperation Department Page 7

5 Training activities Four training activities were proposed in the framework of the SIASA project, each training activity being delivered one or more times: Train the trainer course for OPS inspectors AOC OPS Specs approval Human factors ANS regulation For each of these training activities, profiles for participants have been defined and selected participants financially supported by the project have or need to meet the established prerequisites. At the time of this report 2 activities have been completed, one was still on-going and the last one in the organisation phase is to be delivered in the coming semester. A total of 118 persons have been trained. Only 14% of the trained persons were female. A first analysis of the origins of the trainees is as follows by regions. 40% 35% 30% 25% 20% 15% 10% 5% 0% CASSOA ECCAS SADC UEMOA Other This graph only represents the training session organised in the framework of the SIASA project and thus includes the participants supported by the SIASA project who took part of training organised by other projects. However this graphic does not include similar activities organised under other projects. It needs to be pointed out that this is only based on partial data, since all the training sessions have not yet been delivered. 5.1 Train the trainer course for OPS Inspectors (French speaking) During the inception phase AFCAC has pointed out the shortage of French speaking OPS inspectors available for its AFI Corporate Inspectorate Scheme (AFI-CIS). On that basis it was decided to launch the training of OPS Inspector Instructors. This activity is foreseen in two phases: OPS Inspector training for some 10 to 15 persons A TRAINAIR plus Training Instructors Course (TIC) The first phase is designed to provide a common basis for each of the participants who are evaluated at the end of the training. Following this evaluation, the 6 people with the highest International Cooperation Department Page 8

results and/or potential to become instructors will be selected to attend the second phase of this activity. For the first phase, it was initially planned to use the OPS Inspector course to be developed under the AFI plan framework by Morocco. However this programme has experienced significant delay, which has not allowed EASA to start this activity until late last year when the French DGAC informed the SIASA project team that it was organising for its own personnel an OPS inspector training (in December 2014 and January 2015). The SIASA project was offered four seats for this training as well as the tuition fees. After coordination with the French DGAC, it was decided to offer these seats to Cameroon, Côte d Ivoire, Madagascar and Mauritania, for which the project covered the travel and accommodation costs. Three out of the four persons passed the test and at least one is foreseen to participate to the second phase of the activity. At the time EASA was offered the four seats on the DGAC training, it was also informed that another training session was foreseen by the French authority for mid-2015 where the SIASA project could benefit from additional seats. In total the project could have as much as 10 OPS Inspectors trained. The second training session by the French authority however did not take place and is today still not programmed for 2015. The project Team had to make a decision in order to fulfil its obligation. The French national college of civil aviation (ENAC) based in Toulouse and Morocco have decided to pool together their resources to offer this course in a common framework. The SIASA project is in the process of organising with ENAC an OPS Inspectors course for some 10 African participants. This 6 weeks long course is foreseen to start end of September 2015. The second phase of this activity is to train the trainer. Based on the outcome of the two training session, the potential instructors will be selected. ENAC, an ICAO TRAINAIR Plus organisation, is also in charge of delivering the TIC in French. The purpose of the course is to enable participants to methodically conduct training courses in accordance with ICAO s instructor competencies and develop the required training strategies for course delivery. Unlike the English version of the TIC (described in the previous progress report), the French version is a two weeks long class training. After having successfully completed the TIC, the trainees will be able to: prepare a training environment including facilities, equipment and instructional material; manage the trainees by using effective training strategies; conduct training with a variety of instructional methods as required for the training; perform trainee assessments appropriately, objectively, and correctly; and perform course evaluations effectively. This TIC training is foreseen to be organised in November or early December 2015. 5.2 AOC OPS specific approvals training As reported in the previous progress report this training has been delivered 5 times from February till October 2014: BAGASOO - in Accra, Ghana between Feb 17 th to February 21 st ECCAS - in Douala, Cameroon from Mar 17 th to March 20 th CASSOA - in Entebbe, Uganda between 15-18 September SADC - in Gaborone, Botswana from 20 till 23 October SADC - in Lilongwe, Malawi from 27 till 30 October (in cooperation with the EU funded IASOM project) International Cooperation Department Page 9

The purpose of this training was to enhance the knowledge of national and regional inspectors of the region for the approval of Air Operator Certificate (AOC) Operations Specifications according to the latest ICAO SARPS and Documents. During the last steering committee meeting EASA was asked to provide a qualitative and quantitative evaluation of the activities organised. In order to answer this request a specific report has been written and will be provided separately from this report to the SC members. This report incorporates the evaluation of the participants at the end of their training as well as their evaluation 6 months or more after the training. For more information about this activity we invite you to read the specific evaluation report. 5.3 Human Factors for authorities This activity was launched during the second semester of 2014. The terms of reference and the activity file were developed to match the regional organisation expectations. Being almost unknown to the majority of the authorities in Sub-Saharan Africa, this course was set at an introductory level and was addressed to authority inspectors from the AIR, OPS, AGA, PEL and ANS domains. The material is based in ICAO documentation. This training has been delivered 3 times from November 2014 till : SADC - in Manzini, Swaziland between 17 to 21 November 2014 UEMOA - in Lome, Togo between 9 to 13 March 2015 BAGASOO - in Accra, Ghana between 1 to 6 In the framework of the EU funded project for Central Africa, the same course was delivered in Brazzaville, Congo between 2 to 6 February 2015. Finally 4 persons from CASSOA Member states (Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda) benefited from a Human Factors course organised in Malawi by the EU funded IASOM project. The trainings reflected the latest developments in the flight operations, airworthiness, ATM, airport operations, safety management and authority requirements from ICAO. For the same reason mentioned above for the AOC OPS Specs approval training, a specific report has been written to provide a qualitative and quantitative evaluation of the training. The current version does not yet incorporate the feedback from the last training session in Accra. It will be updated once the latter has been collected and recorded in the database. 5.4 ANS Regulation The ANS regulation has been developed in French and an English translation is now also available. The following step is to make the beneficiaries aware of its content. Two awarenessraising sessions will take place in French speaking Africa (UEMOA and CEMAC) and an additional two sessions will be delivered in English (BAGASOO and SASO, CASSOA joining one or the other). The French sessions will take place late September and early October 2015, while the English session will be organised after. International Cooperation Department Page 10

6 Support to Organisations 6.1 SOFIA implementation Since the last SCM, a few more missions took place in CASSOA. SOFIA is today officially adopted as the safety oversight tool for the Member States. There are still some challenges with the actual implementation as not all States are actively using the data in the system. The procurement problem indicated in the previous report have delayed the start of the implementation of this activity in the UEMOA region and its already identified launch country: Togo. The first missions will take place in the second semester of 2015. The UEMOA regional agency will be invited to take an active role in the implementation in this country. 6.2 RSOO organisational assistance The organisational assistance provided to RSOO is upon request from the regional organisations. The meeting held with the RSOOs on the side of the ICF 4 th meeting was an opportunity to collect some of those requests. The minutes of this side meeting was provided in the previous progress report. The project team is also available to receive spontaneous requests. As reported in the previous report, the SIASA project has positively answered a request from this COSCAP-SADC to participate to two workshop meetings on the Financial Sustainability of the SADC Aviation Safety Organisation (SASO). The COSCAP-SADC also expressed a need for a SAFA/TCO workshop to be organised in Southern Africa. Initially programmed in January 2015, it was then postponed to May 2015 due to logistic issues on the COSCAP side. However, the official confirmation for this new date came too late for EASA to have experts available. The workshop is now scheduled for the very beginning of December 2015. Since the last report, a request was also received from the UEMAO region for a SAFA training for inspectors. EASA agreed to carry out this task. The expert has been found and the location will be Abidjan, Cote d Ivoire. The date has still to be finalised between the instructor and the host country, possibly in November 2015. EASA has also agreed to contribute under the SIASA project to two airworthiness seminars organised by the ICAO regional offices (WACAF and ESAF) in cooperation with Airbus. EASA provided speakers to the two events. EASA provided an expert to speak about SAFA and TCO during the second day of the first event that took place in Dakar, Senegal from 21 till 30 January 2015 and two speakers for the second event that took place in Gaborone, Botswana from 9 till 20 march 2015. The first speaker addressed the issue of SAFA and TCO and the second expert presented the Part M and 145 regulations. You can find the agenda of the first seminar in Dakar in Annex E. Finally, BAGASOO also expressed the wish to have an EASA expert contribute to the a Foreign Aircraft Safety Assessment Programme (FASAP) Workshop, scheduled to take place in Cape Verde from 5 till 7 May 2015. EASA agreed to contribute through video conference due to the lack of availability of experts. However the workshop was in the end postponed. 6.3 ECCAIRS In 2014 as part of the AFI Plan action plan, ICAO has delivered Train-the-trainer courses on ECCAIRS targeted at both end-user level and technical level. The SIASA project plans in 2015 to complement this with additional training for those states/regional organisations that have started implementing the tool but face some difficulties in drawing the full benefit from it due International Cooperation Department Page 11

to the quality of the data recorded or the inexperience in analysing. Often this prevents the production of safety reports. EASA will organise in Europe a one week event and invite experts from national and regional authorities in charge of using ECCAIRS. They will be able to learn from and share with the EASA experts regarding the use of the tool and the analyses possible. The seminar will be based on the version 5 of ECCAIRS. Two key issues will be looked at: Quality of data Taxonomy The seminar will also address other ECCAIRS tools that have been developed by EASA and other members of the ECCAIRS aviation community like: quality check, which allow for the check of the quality and completeness of the data; automated search panel which simplifies the search of related records and the narrative check, which enables the cross-check of coded data with narrative information. The seminar is scheduled to take place early November 2015. International Cooperation Department Page 12

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8 Communication and visibility Various visibility tools (externally and internally) are used in order to promote the SIASA project. A fact-sheet and several newsletters have been produced so far. The USB sticks produced through the Communication & Visibility framework contract with GOPA-Cartermill S.A. are provided to training and workshop participants with the activity support content. The SIASA project team is regularly communicating internally in the EASA highlights as well as on a dedicated SIASA project page in the EASA Intranet. With regard to the joint website (http://aviation-africa.eu/), we have tried to update it regularly with the dates of the events and the support documents distributed to the participants whenever possible. The project Team also participated to the ICAO AFI Aviation Week in Maputo from 18 till 21 May 2015. EASA presented its activity in Africa on two occasions, each time speaking about the SIASA project. Both presentations can be found in Error! Reference source not found.the first resentation was done by the SIASA Project Manager during the 15 th AFI Plan Steering Committee Meeting, the second during the 2 nd AFI Safety Symposium by the EASA Deputy Director of Flight Standards who was a member of the panel on Safety in the AFI region Opportunities and challenges for enhancement. More information about the ICAO AFI Aviation Week can be found on the following websites: AFI Aviation Week 15th AFI Plan Steering Committee Meeting 2nd AFI Safety Symposium Besides the presentations made during the event, side meetings could be organised with the project beneficiaries as well as with other stakeholder: Mozambique: to move forward on the domain of assistance to be provided under the SIASA project. Sierra Leone: The country once again expressed its desire to receive assistance once Ebola is over in the country. SASO: to discuss the seminar to be organised on SAFA/TCO (see paragraph 6.2) and the need when providing assistance to RSOO to take into account the size of the RSOO (some have 5 Member States while others have 3 times more). AATO: to draft the agenda of the Workshop to be organised and to agree on a date and the host country. AFCAC: to invite the organisation to participate to the ATO Certification workshop. ICAO GAT: to organise the TIC to be delivered after the OPS inspector training. International Cooperation Department Page 14

Annex A. Acronyms and definitions AAMAC Autorités Africaines et Malgache de l'aviation Civile AATO African Aviation Training Organisations ACP African, Caribbean, and Pacific Group of States AFCAC African Civil Aviation Conference AFI African and Indian Ocean (ICAO region) AFI-CIS AFI Corporate Inspectorate Scheme AFPP AFI Flight Procedures Programme AGA Aerodromes and Ground Aids AIR Airworthiness ANS Air Navigation Services ANSP Air Navigation Service Provider AOC Air Operator Certificate APIRG AFI Planning and Implementation Regional Group ATM Air Traffic Management ASECNA Agence pour la Sécurité de la Navigation Aérienne en Afrique et à Madagascar ATO Aviation Training Organisation BAG Banjul Accord Group BAGASOO BAG Aviation Safety Oversight Organisation CAA Civil Aviation Authority CASSOA Civil Aviation Safety and Security Oversight Agency CEMAC Communauté économique et monétaire de l'afrique centrale COSCAP Cooperative Development of Operational Safety and Continuing Airworthiness Programmes DG Directorate General DG DEVCO Development and Cooperation DG MOVE Mobility and Transport DGAC Direction Générale de l Aviation Civile EASA European Aviation Safety Agency ECCAIRS European Coordination Centre for Accident and Incident Reporting Systems ECCAS Economic Community of Central African States ENAC Ecole Nationale de l Aviation Civile ESAF Eastern and Southern African office (ICAO) EU European Union GAT Global Aviation Training IASOM Improvement of Aviation Safety Oversight in Malawi ICAO International Civil Aviation Organisation ICF International Cooperation Forum OPS Operations OPS Specs Operations Specifications PANS-OPS Procedures for Air Navigation Services Aircraft Operations PEL Personnel licencing RSOO Regional Safety Oversight Organisation SAFA Assessment of Foreign Aircraft SADC Southern Africa Development Community SARPs Standards and Recommended Practices SASO SADC Aviation Safety Organisation SCM Steering Committee Meeting SIASA Improvement of Aviation Safety in Africa SOFIA Safety Oversight Facilitated Integration Application International Cooperation Department Page 15

SSC TIC TCO UEMOA WACAF Significant Safety Concerns Training Instructors Course Third Country Operator Union Economique et Monétaire Ouest Africaine (WAEMU in English) Western and Central African office (ICAO) International Cooperation Department Page 16

Annex B. Exchange of letter with Sierra Leone In this annex you will find the following documents: Letter send by EASA to the Civil Aviation Authority of Sierra Leone (SLCAA). The same letter was also sent to Guinea (Conaky) and Liberia. Letter received from the SLCAA The answer sent by EASA International Cooperation Department Page 17

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Annex C. ATO Certification workshop Agenda structure No initial draft agenda is available for the time being. However, the different stakeholders involved in the organisation of the event have agreed to structure the agenda around the 8 areas that are covered when conducting the assessment of civil aviation training centres. This assessment is done against ICAO documents 9841 related to the approval of training organizations as well as on document 9941, Training Development Guidelines, related to the course development methodology. Those areas of assessment are: 1- Organization of the training centre and approvals 2- Training and Procedures Manual 3- Training Programmes and Delivery 4- Facilities 5- Personnel 6- Records 7- Quality System 8- Safety Management International Cooperation Department Page 22

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