France has long-standing cooperation with the Agency for Air Navigation Safety in Africa and Madagascar (ASECNA).Programmes in which France participatesįrance contributes on a voluntary basis to several programmes which assist the ICAO or support its strategic objectives:

In 2018, this assistance in kind was valued at CAN$ 1.3 million. For this, it can draw on the experience of the French Civil Aviation School ENAC, a regional centre of excellence under the ICAO TRAINAIR +programme, which has almost 3000 students, every year, 45% of whom are foreign nationals.įrance also contributes to the ICAO’s work by freely providing national technical experts, which is the third-biggest staff contribution from States to the organization. French experts help to develop the ICAOĭue to their national experience and expertise, French technical experts are present in all ICAO Technical Panels and many of its Working Groups, thus contributing to the Organization’s five Strategic Objectives.įrance also supports the No Country Left Behind initiative and leads numerous bilateral assistance programmes with other ICAO Member States mainly through its 50 bilateral cooperation agreements. Several French commissioners have chaired the Commission: Daniel Galibert, in 20 and Farid Zizi between 20. Similarly, French experts have been elected from the outset to the Air Navigation Commission which represents the interests not of States but of independent technical experts. Three French nationals have therefore carried out the role of ICAO Secretary-General over a 25-year period. Yves Lambert and, more recently Raymond Benjamin also held the same position (from 1976 to 1988 and from 2009 to 2015, respectively). He was also the first and only Secretary General of the International Commission for Air Navigation (ICAN), which was established in 1922 and the forerunner to the ICAO.

Since 1947, France has demonstrated its status as a recognized player in civil aviation with the election of Albert Roper as the Organization’s first Secretary-General for two terms (1944-1951). France, a recognised player in civil aviation

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