Tirana, 23-25 August 2022 — A training course on best practices for national auditors – level 2 was organised by ECAC in Tirana for national auditors from Albania, Finland, Lithuania, Montenegro and North Macedonia.
Sofia, 5-7 July 2022 and Vilnius, 17-19 August 2022 — A training course on best practices for covert testing was organised by ECAC in Sofia for national auditors from Albania, Bulgaria and the Republic of Moldova, and in Vilnius for national auditors from Austria, Estonia, Lithuania and the Netherlands, with a contribution from an instructor from the United Kingdom at the Sofia event.
Montreal/hybrid, 20-22 July 2022 — A High-level Meeting on the Feasibility of a Long-Term Aspirational Goal for International Aviation CO2 Emissions Reductions (HLM-LTAG) brought together all ICAO States in July. ECAC/EU States presented two European papers to the meeting, and the European participation was supported by ECAC, the Czech Presidency of the Council of the European Union and the European Commission.
Videoconference, 12-13 July 2022 — A familiarisation course providing information and key facts on ECAC’s history, organisation and activities was held online in July. Designed for recently appointed Directors General and their team members who coordinate ECAC and other international matters, this 11th run of the course was also open to newly appointed chairs and deputy chairs of ECAC’s working groups, to enable them to become more familiar with all ECAC’s domains of activity.
Brussels, 12 July 2022 — The European Aviation and Environment Group (Expanded) met to coordinate ahead of the ICAO High-level Meeting on the Feasibility of a Long-Term Aspirational Goal for International Aviation CO2 Emissions Reductions (HLM LTAG), and to prepare for the 41st ICAO Assembly.
Videoconference, 7 July 2022 — The seventh meeting of the ECAC/EU Sustainable Aviation Fuels Task Group (SAF-TG) focused on revising the structure of the future SAF guidance document in order to accommodate the incorporation of policy recommendations arising from the SAF Policy Toolkit document developed in 2021 by Clean Skies for Tomorrow, an initiative led by the World Economic Forum.