Contents Message from the Secretary General THE ICAO JOURNAL VOlume 68, Number 4, 2013 4 Aviation security and passenger and cargo facilitation remain an area of high priority for ICAO and its Member States as modern security threats Editorial ICAO Communications Unit continue to evolve, requiring constant innovation and adaptation on behalf Tel: +1 (514) 954-8221 of security and law enforcement agencies worldwide. www.icao.int [email protected] twitter.com/icao AVSEC Panel Chair Shares his Thoughts on Meeting Today’s Aviation Bang Marketing Security Challenges Stéphanie Kennan 6 Bernard Lim outlines the role of the AVSEC Panel, along with the key Tel: +1 (514) 849-2264 E-mail: [email protected] challenges of aviation security, recent developments and the evolution of Website: www.bang-marketing.com security measures to address increasing threat and risk. Advertising FCM Communications Inc. 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Lim Australia Ms. K. Macaulay Mexico Mr. D. Méndez Mayora Belgium Mr. G. Robert Morocco Mr. A. Boulmane Brazil Mr. J. D’Escragnolle Nigeria Dr. O.B. Aliu Taunay Filho Paraguay Mrs. A. Torres de Rodríguez Burkina Faso Mr. M. Dieguimde Peru Mrs. D. Sotomayor Yalán Cameroon Mr. E. Zoa Etundi Republic of Korea Mr. D. Choi Canada Mr. M. Allen Russian Federation Mr. A. A. Novgorodov China Mr. T. Ma Saudi Arabia Mr. T. M.B. Kabli Colombia Mr. A. Muñoz Gómez Singapore Mr. T.C. Ng Cuba Mr. J. F. Castillo de la Paz Slovenia --------------- Denmark Mr. K. L. Larsen South Africa Mr. L. Mabaso Egypt Mr. A. I. H. Mahmoud Spain Mr. V. M. Aguado France Mr. M. Wachenheim Swaziland Mr. D. Litchfield Germany Mr. U. Schwierczinski Uganda Mr. J. W. K. Twijuke Guatemala Mr. H.A. Rosales Salaverría United Arab Emirates Ms. A. Al Hamili India Mr. P.N. Sukul United Kingdom Mr. M. Rodmell Italy Mr. E. Padula United States Mr. D. Woerth Japan Mr. T. Koda ICAO Air Navigation Commission (ANC) Information accurate at time of printing President: Mr. Christian Schleifer-Heingärtner Members of the Air Navigation Commission are nominated by Contracting States and appointed by the Council. They act in their personal expert capacity and not as representatives of their nominations. Mr. A.H. Alaufi Mr. J. I. Dow Mr. J. Herrero Mr. A.H. Tiede Mr. S.C.M. Allotey Mr. M.G. Fernando Mr. A.A. Korsakov Mr. S. Vuokila Mr. D.C. Behrens Mr. P.D. Fleming Mr. R. Monning Mr. H. Yoshimura Mr. M.A. da Costa Mr. R.O. González Mr. H. Park Mr. F. Zizi Junior Mr. M. Halidou Mr. F. Tai ICAO’s Global Presence North American, South American Western and European and Middle East Eastern and Asia and Pacific Central American (SAM) Office, Central African North Atlantic (MID) Office, Southern African (APAC) Office, and Caribbean Lima (WACAF) Office, (EUR/NAT) Cairo (ESAF) Office, Bangkok (NACC) Office, Dakar Office, Nairobi Mexico City París MeSSage FroM the Secretary general Raymond Benjamin, ICAO Secretary General Delivering BalanceD anD SuStainaBle Security anD Facilitation This issue of the ICAO Journal focuses on our Organization’s continuing work in the growingly related areas of aviation security and passenger and cargo facilitation. This remains an area of high priority for ICAO and its Member States as modern security threats continue to evolve, requiring constant innovation and adaptation on behalf of security and law enforcement agencies worldwide. 4 ICAO Journal – iSSue 4 2013 MeSSage FroM the Secretary general MeSSage FroM the Secretary general Recent gatherings of security and facilitation officials, cargo and mail. This work is a high-priority for ICAO and and most notably the 2012 High-level Conference on Aviation we continue to work with these and other partners to avoid Security (HLCAS) held at ICAO Headquarters, reinforced that duplication and delays in the mail and air cargo supply chains States fully acknowledge the continuing threat to aviation by identifying and exchanging more information on shipments. posed by global terrorism. However these same States are also now more aware than ever of the significant contributions Where passenger-related risks are concerned, information in terms of travel, trade and many other economic benefits and data sharing are equally important. ICAO is presently which an unimpeded global air transport network delivers considering the means by which States can better standardize, to local and regional GDP. access and share Advance Passenger Information/Passenger Name Record (API/PNR) data while respecting the reasonable The seeming contradiction of a well-protected yet unimpeded expectations of passengers to sufficient levels of personal network has been at the heart of all modern deliberations on privacy. The lack of uniformity which persists, in terms of how how to develop and implement effective aviation security in this data is both recorded and transmitted, continues to stand a period of continuing economic uncertainty. And one of the in the way of its optimization as an important resource in any key realizations which has emerged in response to it is that risk-based passenger screening solution. risk management holds the key to the development of threat mitigation approaches which are at once effective, affordable Another important component of the eventual passenger and capable of minimizing inconvenience and delays for screening solutions we determine is technology. Current passengers and freight. approaches can be uncomfortable and inconvenient, discouraging rather than encouraging people to fly, When you hear ICAO and other organizations increasingly and this points to the need for continuing innovation referring to the need to develop sustainable security and in screening technologies so that the passenger experience facilitation solutions, these are precisely the qualities we can be greatly improved. are referring to. ICAO has therefore scheduled a first-ever Symposium on The Risk Context Statement which ICAO developed in 2011, Innovation in Aviation Security from 21 to 23 October 2014. and which was widely supported at the 2012 HLCAS, continues Based on the theme of Innovation for the Enhancement to serve as a solid set of principles on which the modern of Aviation Security, this event will help States, industry, international aviation security and facilitation regime can academic researchers and other AVSEC professionals rely. This document provides all of ICAO’s 191 Member States explore how technology, tools and equipment can help us with a robust methodology for further developing their meet both existing and future aviation security challenges. national risk assessments and reinforces the importance of a risk-based approach. It also helps to ensure a coherent, We are also furthering