Georgia being awarded with ICAO certificates for progress in aviation safety and security supervision
The main criteria for receiving certificates are improving the indicators for effective implementation of ICAO standards (a 15 per cent increase) and lack of serious deficiencies. Photo: Georgian Civil Aviation Agency.
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Georgia has been awarded with two International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Council President Certificates for significant reforms and high achievements in aviation safety and aviation security oversight, announces Georgian Civil Aviation Agency (GCAA).
The main criteria for receiving certificates are improving the indicators for effective implementation of ICAO standards (a 15 per cent increase) and lack of serious deficiencies.
Awarding with the ICAO Council President Certificates is an international acknowledgment of the achievements of Georgia in civil aviation, and will be an incentive for further improvement [in the civil aviation]”, said the Director of the Civil Aviation Agency Levan Karanadze.
According to the ICAO audit conducted in 2018, the overall rate of effective implementation of international civil aviation standards and practices by civil aviation in Georgia has been 87.64%.
The rate of implementing international aviation standards and practices by the GCAA was 87.94 per cent, said the audit report conducted by ICAO in 2018.
Georgia being awarded with ICAO certificates.
Georgia is in the first place in the region in terms of implementing and overseeing international aviation standards.
Since 2013, the Georgian Civil Aviation Agency has improved aviation safety oversight by almost 56 per cent (from 32 per cent to 87.64 per cent), while aviation security oversight has improved by 30 per cent (from 58 per cent to 87.8 per cent).
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