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ICAO EANPG FMG CM combined with RAFT/15 was held from 15 to 17 May 2019 in Luxembourg, hosted by EUROCONTROL.

A volcanic ash exercise in Kamachatka, Russian Federation took place from 2200 UTC 18 April 2019 to 0200 UTC 19 April 2019.

​The Thirteenth meeting of the ICAO EUR Regional Expert Safety Team (IE-REST/13) was held in Paris, France, from 11 to 12 April 2019.

​The ICAO EUR/NAT Office in coordination with ICAO Air Navigation Bureau, Aviation Medicine Section, and in consultation with the World Health Organization organized CAPSCA-EUR/07

The Seventh Meeting of the ICAO North Atlantic Technology and Interoperability Group (NAT TIG/07) was held from 8 to 12 April 2019 in the premises of the ICAO EUR/NAT Office in Paris, France.

RASG-EUR Accident investigation and ECCAIRS user workshop was held in Paris, France, from 8 to10 April 2019

An ICAO Workshop on Safety Management Capacity Building for the European and North Atlantic Regions was held at the ICAO EUR/NAT Office in Paris, France, from 2 to 5 April 2019.

​The EUR/NAT Regional Workshop on CORSIA was held in Helsinki Finland from 26 to 27 March 2019.

The First meeting of the ICAO EUR PBN Consolidation Task Force in conjunction with the Twenty-Eight meeting of the EUROCONTROL Navigation Steering Group (NSG) was held at EUROCONTROL HQ, Brussels on 26 – 28 March 2019.

The meeting was convened in the EUR/NATOffice from 19 to 20 March 2019 with the participation of the ICAO Secretary General Dr. Fang Liu.

​The fifth meeting of the EUR/NAT Aviation Security Training Center (ASTC) Directors (ASTCD/05) was held in Paris, France on 12 and 13 March 2019.

Today, 8 March 2019, the ICAO EUR/NAT Regional Office staff and the ECAC staff celebrated together the International Women’s Day.

​The last training course Managing Compliance with ICAO SARPs for CAA Senior and Middle Managers organized in the EUR/NAT Regions was held on 4 March to 7 March, 2019 in Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation.

Under ICAO's global initiative “No Country Left Behind” (NCLB), the ICAO EUR/NAT Regional Office developed a Technical Assistance Programme (EUR/NAT TAP).

The NAT 2030 Vision Workshop was held at the ICAO EUR/NAT Office, in Paris, France from 29 to 30 January 2019. The workshop was attended by representatives from 15 States, 9 International and Regional Organizations and 5 Aviation related Industries.

An ICAO Coordinated Validation Mission was conducted in Podgorica, Montenegro from 21 to 29 January 2019, under the ICAO Universal Safety Oversight Audit Programme Continuous Monitoring Approach.

ICAO EUR NAT Office and ICAO Global Aviation Training (GAT) organized for the EUR NAT Regions an International Air Law course in Paris, France, from 21 to 25 January 2019.

​Under ICAO's global initiative "No Country Left Behind" (NCLB), the ICAO EUR/NAT Regional Office developed a Technical Assistance Programme (EUR/NAT TAP).

The VOLCEX18 Debrief, VOLCEX19 Planning and VOLCEX/SG/14 Meetings were held in Napoli, Italy from 15 to 17 January 2019.

Under ICAO's global initiative "No Country Left Behind" (NCLB), the ICAO EUR/NAT Regional Office developed a Technical Assistance Programme (EUR/NAT TAP).

​The ICAO ACT CORSIA regional workshop, organised by ECAC with the support of the German Environmental Agency and the Turkish Civil Aviation Authority, was held in the Turkish Civil Aviation Academy.

The Joint ACAO/ICAO EUR/NAT and MID ASBU Symposium was held from 10 to 13 December 2018 in Marrakech, Morocco.

December 7th each year is recognized globally as International Civil Aviation Day. Befitting this commemoration of aviation’s uniquely cooperative history and its incredible contributions to world peace and prosperity, ICAO’s Council President, Dr. Olumuyiwa Benard Aliu, and the Organization’s Secretary General, Dr. Fang Liu, have issued the following joint statement to commemorate this historic date.

The first ICAO EUR/NAT Environment Task Force was held in Baku, Azerbaijan, from 4 to 5 December 2018.

​The Seventy-Second Meeting of the EANPG Programme Coordinating Group (COG/72) combined with the Ninth Meeting of the RASG-EUR Coordination Group (RCOG/09) was held in the ICAO European and North Atlantic Office from 23 to 26 October 2018.

The fifty-third meeting of the North Atlantic Implementation Management Group (NAT IMG/53) was held in Prestwick, United Kingdom, from 22 to 25 October 2018.

The Twenty-fifth Meeting of the EUR Data Management Group (DMG/25) was held in Toulouse, France from 16 to 18 October 2018.

The ICAO EUR/NAT Office together with EASA organized the Joint COG Task Force on Language Proficiency Requirements Implementation (COG LPRI TF 33) meeting which was held in EASA headquarters in Cologne, Germany, from 9 to 10 October 2018.

The Nineteenth meeting of the North Atlantic Scrutiny Group (NAT SG/19) was convened in the ICAO European/North Atlantic (EUR/NAT) Office on 8-12 October 2018.

ICAO Workshop on the Investigation of Cabin Safety Aspects in Accidents and Incidents was held in Istanbul, Turkey, from 4 to 5 October 2018.

The Twenty-Fourth Meeting of the ICAO EANPG Frequency Management Group (FMG) was held from 2 to 4 October 2018 in the premises of the ICAO EUR/NAT Office in Paris, France

The First Meeting of the European System Wide Information Management (SWIM) Project Team (EUR SIWM PT/1) was held at Eurocontrol Headquarters, Brussels, Belgium on 27 September 2018.

The Twelfth meeting of the ICAO EUR Regional Expert Safety Team (IE-REST/12) was held in Chisinau, Republic of Moldova, on 25 – 27 September 2018, kindly hosted by the Civil Aviation Authority of the Republic of Moldova.

A Technical Assistance Workshop, organized within the framework of the ICAO EUR/NAT No Country Left Behind Technical Assistance Programme (EUR/NAT TAP) was held in Tirana, Albania from 19 to 21 September 2018, kindly hosted by the Republic of Albania Civil Aviation Authority.

​The Twenty-Eighth Meeting of the Meteorology Group (METG/28) of the European Air Navigation Planning Group was held at the ICAO EUR/NAT Office, Paris, France from 18 to 21 September 2018.

The Sixth Meeting of the ICAO NAT North Atlantic Region Technology and Interoperability Group (NAT TIG/6) was held from 17 to 21 September 2018 in Bodø, Norway.

The ICAO AVSEC/FAL seminar for the Eastern Part of the EUR/NAT Regions was held from 12 to14 September 2018 in Skopje The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.

An ICAO Workshop on the Continuous Monitoring Approach (CMA) of the Universal Safety Oversight Audit Programme (USOAP) for the European and North Atlantic Regions was held at the ICAO EUR/NAT Office in Paris, France, from 11 to 13 September 2018.

​The Sixth Meeting of the North Atlantic Procedures and Operations Group (NAT POG/06) was hosted by the French Direction Générale de l'Aviation Civile from at their headquarters in Issy-les-Moulineaux, Paris from 10 to 14 September 2018.

The VOLCEX18 Preparatory Workshop was held at the ICAO EUR/NAT Office, Paris, France from 6 to 7 September 2018. The Workshop was attended by a total of 45 participants from 18 States, 6 airlines, and 4 International Organizations.

The Thirteenth Meeting of the Volcanic Ash Exercises Steering Group for the (far) Eastern part of the EUR Region (EUR (EAST) VOLCEX/SG/13) was held from 7 to 9 August 2018 in Magadan, Russian Federation with 28 participants from Japan, Russian Federation, United States, IATA (including Eva Air) and ICAO.

The Interregional EUR/MID Workshop on PANS AIM was successfully held at the ICAO EUR/NAT Office, Paris, France from 10 to 12 July 2018. The Workshop was attended by a total of one hundred and one (101) participants from forty one (41) States from EUR/NAT and MID and nine (9) Organizations/Industries.

The 54th meeting of the North Atlantic Systems Planning Group was held in Paris, France at the ICAO EUR NAT Office, from 25 to 28 June 2018.

​ICAO EUR NAT Office and ICAO Global Aviation Training (GAT) organized for the EUR NAT Regions an International Air Law course in Paris, France, from 18 to 22 June 2018.

​The Ninth edition of the Pan American Aviation Safety Summit was held in Buenos Aires, Argentina from 11 to 13 June 2018.

The Eighteenth Meeting of the Project Team on Implementation of Meteorological Services in the Eastern part of the EUR Region (PT/EAST/18) was held in Astana, Kazakhstan from 5 to 7 June 2018.

An ICAO EUR Regional Performance Framework workshop was conducted, thanks to the kind invitation from the Russian Federation in Moscow from 29 to 30 May 2018. The workshop was attended by more than 50 participants from Civil Aviation Authorities, Air Navigation Service Providers and other aviation stakeholders.

The Coordination Meeting of the ICAO EANPG Frequency Management Group (FMG CM) was held from 28 to 30 May 2018 in Vienna, Austria, hosted by AUSTROCONTROL

​The Fourth meeting of the MIDANPIRG Air Traffic Management Sub-Group (ATM SG/4) and the Third meeting of the Advanced Inter-Regional ATS Route Development Task Force (AIRARD TF/3) were organized, thanks to the invitation from the Jordan Civil Aviation Regulatory Commission (CARC), in Amman, Jordan from 29 April to 03 May 2018.

​More than 32 participants from 10 States and 2 international organizations attended the Twenty-Fifth Meeting of the Air Traffic Management Group – Eastern part of the ICAO EUR Region (ATMGE/25) which, thanks to the kind invitation/support of EUROCONTROL was organized in Brussels, Belgium from 25 to 27 April 2018.

​The Twenty Second Meeting of the EANPG Aeronautical Fixed Services Group (AFSG) was held from 23 to 27 April 2018 in the ICAO EUR/NAT Office in Paris.

VOLKAM18 was successfully conducted from 19 to 20 April 2018 which exercised several objectives related to aviation stakeholders' response to two simulated volcano eruptions in Kamchatka, Russian Federation.

The first ICAO Aviation Data and Analysis seminar was organized and held at the ICAO EUR NAT Regional Office. It was a joint event with ICAO EUR NAT Office, ICAO Headquarter and ICAO MID Office.

The ACAC/ICAO Civil/Military Workshop organized jointly by ACAC and ICAO (EUR/NAT and MID Regional Offices) was held in Algiers, Algeria, from 26 to 28 March 2018.

The 39th ICAO Assembly adopted Resolution A39-3 (Consolidated statement of continuing ICAO policies and practices related to environmental protection – Global Market-based Measure (MBM) Scheme), in which it was decided that ICAO and Member States take all necessary actions in providing capacity building and assistance for implementation of CORSIA.

With the aim of improving the coordination and implementation of North Atlantic (NAT) programmes and projects, the Fifth Meeting of the North Atlantic Procedures and Operations Group (NAT POG/05) was held from 19 to 23 March 2018 in Santa Maria, Portugal.

​The Twenty-Third Meeting of the Data Management Group (DMG/23) was held in Algiers, Algeria from 13 to 15 March 2018.

​An ICAO PBN authorisations training course was held in the EUR/NAT Office on 12-16 March 2018.

The ICAO EUR/NAT is implementing a regional Technical Assistance Programme (EUR/NAT TAP) under the No Country Left Behind (NCLB) global initiative.

​ICAO EUR/NAT PBCS workshop was held in the EUR/NAT Office on 20-21 February 2018 attended by about 100 participants.

A EUR/NAT Technical Assistance Programme was established in early 2015 with the aim to develop and implement Technical Assistance projects.

VOLCEX17 simulated a volcano eruption in the Azores in Portugal which produced a simulated volcanic ash cloud that impacted the Mediterranean States as well as a large part of continental Europe, United Kingdom and portions of the Middle East.

​Another milestone was recently reached by the ICAO EUR/NAT Technical Assistance Programme (TAP) in continued support provided to Civil Aviation Authorities (CAA) of Kyrgyzstan in improving its State oversight functions provided under the No Country Left Behind (NCLB) global initiative.