Doc 9085 Annual Report of the Council -1973 DOCUMENTATION for the session of the Assembly in 1974 INTERNATIONAL CIVIL AVIATION ORGANIZATION Published by the Secretary General under authority of the Council Published in separate English, French and Spanish editions by the International Civil Aviation Organization. All correspondence, except orders and subscriptions, should be addressed to the Secretary General of ICA 0, International Aviation Building, 1080 University Street, Montreal101, Quebec, Canada. Orders for this publication should be sent to one of the following addresses, together with the appropriate remittance (by bank draft or post office money order) in U.S. dollars or the currency of the country in which the order is placed or m a freely convertible currency: Cauda: Information Canada, Ottawa, On­ Mexico: Representante de Ia OACI, Oflcina tario. Norteamerica y Caribe, Apartado postal 5·377, Mhico 5, D.F. 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With the Retorts for 1971 (Doc 8982) and 1972 (Doc 9046), it constitutes documentatim for Item 7 of the Provisional Agenda of the 21 sl Session of the AssemblJ It will be supplemented by a brief review of the work of the Organizalim for the first six months of 1974, and will be sent to the Economic ani Social Council of the United Nations in pursuance of Article VI, pararraph 2 (a) of the Agreement between the United Nations and ICAO. The Report was prepared by the Secretaiat and circulated in draft form to the Representatives of Council Member Sates for their suggestions. The Council, as a body, did not formally examhF or adopt it but, as in the past, delegated to its President authority to ~pprove the final text after considering all the suggestions received. As in previous years, Chapter I is a desription of signifiCant develop­ ments in civil aviation during the year; tk activities of ICAO itself are described in Chapters II to VIII. The Council held three sessions in 1973.These were the Seventy-eighth Session from 22 January to 29 March with a total of fifteen meetings, three of which were held outside the Council phlse; the Seventy-ninth Session from 30 April to 27 June, with a total c( fourteen meetings, and the Eightieth Session from 17 September to B December, with a total of twenty-three meetings, five of which were Jeid outside the Council phase. Authority was delegated to the President to ~ct on a number of matters, as necessary, when the Council was not in sessi01. YH~ WalterBinaglti President of the Council THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter I. Civil Aviation in 1973 ..•.•..•.••..... 1. Traffic on Scheduled Services . 2. Non-scheduled Commercial Air Transport . 12 3. Financial Results. 17 4. Airline Fares and Rates .......................... 20 5. Inter-airline Co-operation . 25 6. General Aviation . 27 7. Evolution of the Commercial Air Transport Fleets of ICAO Contracting States 30 L~~ D 9. Technical Trends and Developments. 36 ACTIVITIES AND DEVEWPMENTS IN ICAO IN 1973 Chapter II. Air Navigation 43 1. Introduction. 43 2. Meetings. 43 3. International Standards and Recommended Practices (SARPS) and Procedures for Air Navigation Services {PANS) 50 4. Air Navigation Plans . ..........•. 52 5. Participation of the Regional Offices in Air Navigation Activities ... 54 6. Projects given special attention during 1973 . 61 Chapter III. Air Transport . • . • • . 66 1. Introduction. 66 2. Meetings ............................... 66 3. Economic Activities . 67 4. Statistics. 68 5. Facilitation . 68 6. Participation of the Regional Offices in Air Transport Activities 69 Chapter IV. Joint Financing. • . • . • • • . • . • . • . 74 I. General. 74 2. Agreement on the Joint Financing of Certail Air Navigation Services in Greenland and the Faroes, 1956 (The Dani~ Joint Financing Agreement). 74 3. Agreement on the Joint Financing of Certait Air Navigation Services in Iceland. 1956 (The Icelandic Joint Financing Agreement) . 76 4. The North Atlantic Ocean Stations Joint Firlancing Agreement, 1954.. 77 Chapter V. Technical Assistance . • . • . • . • • . • . • . • . • . 79 1. Introduction. 79 2. Participation of the Regional Offices in Technical Assistance Activities . 80 ~fu- u ~--5. Fellowships . u83 6. UNDP and FIT Programmes 83 7. United Nations Fund for the Development of Irian Jaya (FUNDWI). 95 (iii) (iv) Annual Report of the Council 1973 Chapter VI. Constitutional and Legal Queilions 96 I. Introduction. 96 2. Chicago Acts . 96 3. International Air Law Conventions . 97 4. Un]awfullnterference with Internatbnal Civil Aviation and its Facilities. 99 5. Work Programme of the Legal Comnittee. 99 6. Privileges, Immunities and Facilities of the Organization. 100 7. Registration of Agreements and Arnngements. 100 8. Collection of National Aviation La\W and Regulations . 100 Chapter VII. Relations with Other Interrutional Organizations 101 I. The United Nations. 101 2. Inter-Agency Bodies . 102 3. Specialized Agencies . 103 4. Other International Organizations . 104 Chapter VHI. Organization and Administmtion .. lOS 1. Introduction. • . .......... 105 2. Organization. 105 3. Personnel. 106 4. Twenty-third ICAO Familiarization Course . 107 5. Public Information Activities .. 107 6. Computer Activities. 107 7. Language Services, Publications and Library . 107 8. Premises .............. 108 9. Finance. 109 Appendices I. Part I - States Parties to the Chicago Acts as of 31 December 197 3 . I II Part II - Protocol on the Authentic Trilingual Text of the Convention on International Civil Aviation (Chicago, 1944), done at Buenos Aires on 24 September 1968 . 1 I 4 2. List of States Parties to the Geneva, Rome, Guadalajara, Tokyo, The Hague and Montreal Conventions and the !Iague Protocol, as of 31 December 1973 117 3. Part I - Annexes to the Convention - Amendments adopted up to 31 December 1973 . I21 Part 11 - Procedures for Air NavigatiOn Services (PANS) - Amendments approved up to 31 December 1973. 127 4. The Council, its Committees and the Air Navigation Commission. 129 5.1CA0 Meetings Held in 1973 . 135 6. Programme ofiCAO Meetings for H74 . 138 7. Participation of States and InternatDnal Organizations in Main ICAO Meetings in 1973 . I40 8. Structure ofiCAO Secretariat as of31 December I973 . 145 9. National Distribution of Profession<~ Category Staff as of 31 December 1973.. 146 10. Distribution of Tedmical Assistance Field Staff by Nationality, Grade and Programme, 1973 . 149 11. Distribution of Technical Assistance Field Staff by Programme and Profes- SiOn or Trade, 1973........ I50 12. Fellowship Awards Made During 1973 under ICAO Programmes . 152 13. Statistics for Diagrams. 160 14. Review of Action Taken up to 31 December 1973 on Resolutions of the 18th, 19th and 20th Sessions of the Assembly.. 164 Chapter I CIVIL AVIATION IN 1973 This chapter describes the principal events in civil USSR traffic which has been available only from 1970) aviation in 1973. It is sub-divided into nine sections: were as follows: Passengers carried 11.0% 1. Traffic on scheduled services; Passenger-km 13.0% 2. Non.scheduled commercial air transport; Freight tonne-km 17.0% 3. Financial results; Mail tonne-km !2.0% 4. Airline fares and rates; Total tonne-km 13.9% 5. Inter-airline co-operation; It may be noted that the annual increases recorded for 6. General aviation; 1973 over 1972 were all, except for freight, well below 7. Evolution of the commercial air transport fleets of these ten-year averages. Regarding the annual rates of ICAO Contracting States; increases shown in Table 1.1 it may be observed that the 8. Safety; growth figures for the years 1964 to 1969 were well 9. Technical trends and developments. above the averages for the decade ending 1973. In 1970 and 1971, however, the high rates of growth were sharply reduced (from about 17 to 7 per cent in the case of total tonne-kilometres performed). In 1972 growth I. Traffic on Scheduled Services rates picked up, though not to the pre·1970 level, but fell again somewhat in 1973. Apart from mail traffic of In this section some general indications are given, mainly which the erratic growth is largely attributable to the through a series of tables and diagrams, of the develop­ fluctuations in United States military mail, by far the ment up to the end of 1973 of the scheduled traffic of 1 highest growth rate over the decade was shown by the airlines of ICAO Contracting States • Information freight, but even here the 1973 increase over 1972 has on such matters as rates of growth, national ranking and not equalled the pre-1970 rate.