Sa Steering Committee Meeting

SC9/DP6

COSCAP-SEA 9TH STEERING COMMITTEE MEETING

Discussion Paper

DP6 - ICAO GLOBAL AVIATION SAFETY PLAN (GASP)

1. Introduction

1.1 The ICAO Global Aviation Safety Plan provides a common frame of reference for all stakeholders in order to allow a more proactive approach to aviation safety and to help coordinate and guide safety policies and initiatives worldwide to reduce the accident risk for civil aviation. GASP is to be used in conjunction with the Global Aviation Safety Roadmap developed by industry for ICAO and at its request. This paper highlights the important elements in GASP and seeks approval of the SCM to use them as base documents in the planning, designing implementation and prioritizing the future technical work programmes of COSCAP-SEA

2. Background

2.1 The objective of the Global Aviation Safety Plan is to reduce the accident risks in civil aviation by providing a common frame of reference for all stakeholders that allows a more proactive and systematic approach to aviation safety, and helps coordinate and guide setting safety policies and initiatives worldwide. It will help prioritizing and planning safety initiatives and measuring their impact.

2.2 The GASP is based on the following four principles:

 Participation of all stakeholders: to ensure consistency of objectives and to avoid duplication of effort;

 Defining (twelve) Global Safety Initiatives: setting best practices, metrics and maturity levels which aredefined in the Global Aviation Safety Roadmap to ensure that implementation makes full use of the collective experience of the aviation community and that progress is measured in a transparent and consistent way;

 Planning process: for collaboratively development of action plans that defines the specific activities that should take place in order to improve safety;

 Consistency of the ICAO Global Planning Process GASP follows an approach and philosophy which is coherent with the Global Air Navigation Plan for CNS/ATM Systems (Doc 9750). Both were developed with close coordination and participation of industry, and both provide a common framework to ensure that regional, sub-regional, national and individual initiatives are coordinated to deliver a harmonized, safe and efficient international civil aviation system.

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3. Discussion

3.1 Over the years, ICAO has developed the GASP as high-level plans that ICAO, States and industry use to support initiatives to improve the safety and efficiency of the global aviation system.

3.2 As adopted at the 36th ICAO Assembly, it would be prudent for the COSCAP-SEA to base its future policies and strategies relating to enhancement of safety and efficiency in aviation system in the region aligned with ICAO GASP.

3.3 At the 44th DGCA-AP meeting the GASP was reviewed and action item 44/4 was accepted by the meeting. Noting the intent to continuously apply the Global Aviation Safety Plan (GASP) as a tool to enhance safety by focusing action where it is most needed; the Conference urged States and the industry to apply the GASP and Global Aviation Safety Roadmap principles and objectives and to implement its methodologies in partnership with all concerned stakeholders to reduce the number and rate of aircraft accident.

4. Recommendations

4.1 Consider the proposal contained in this Discussion Paper and request the Programme Coordinator to ensure that components of ICAO GASP are utilized for planning, designing, implementation and prioritizing the future technical work of the COSCAP-SEA, to the extent possible, in addition to activities or tasks that the Steering Committee may decide to entrust upon the Programme.

4.2 Grant approval for the Programme Coordinator to effect necessary updates in the relevant control documents of the Programme such as Phase II, Programme Document or Institutional Framework and Administrative Procedures Manual etc. to accommodate the above decision and submit any such amended documents to the next Steering Committee Meeting for formal adoption.

4.3 Permit the Programme Management to undertake tasks or activities, to the extent possible, that may be needed to conform to GASP.

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