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Paris, 7 December 2023 — The 161st meeting of ECAC Directors General of Civil Aviation (DGCA/161) was focused on taking stock of the year’s work and preparing for the challenges of the coming year. An expanded set of annual reports was presented to Directors General, including for the first time information papers on work in the cross-cutting domains of unmanned aircraft systems, diversity and inclusion, and communications, setting out the work done and to come.

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Published: 08 December 2023

Elena Bratikova joined the ECAC Secretariat on 1 December 2023 as an administrative assistant. She has over 15 years of professional experience in Brussels including roles within the European space sector and international organisations, as well as working with the European Union institutions and several representations of the Member States before the EU.

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Published: 08 December 2023

Videoconference, 8 November 2023 — Discussions at the ECAC Medium-Term Objectives (EMTO) Task Force’s November meeting (EMTO/69) centred on planning the work it had been commissioned to do by the Coordinating Committee at its meeting the previous week (CC/199, 2 November 2023).

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Published: 08 December 2023

Bratislava, 14-16 November 2023 — Aviation security auditors from Hungary, Republic of Moldova, Serbia and Slovakia attended the Best Practices on Covert Testing course organised with the aim to enhance participants’ understanding of covert testing methodologies.

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Published: 08 December 2023

Lisbon, 13-14 November 2023 — The need to update the explosive detection dogs (EDD) threat list (a list of substances that should be detected by EDDs) was the focus of discussions at the recent EDD Study Group meeting in Lisbon, with participants agreeing on several modifications.

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Videoconference, 21-23 November 2023 — The ECAC Secretariat, with contributions from cyber security experts from Poland, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, organised a training session in November dedicated to inspecting and auditing cyber security in aviation. Eight aviation security auditors from the Netherlands, Portugal and Serbia participated in this online Best Practices for National Auditors – Cyber Security (basic) course.