2-5 November 2021 - ECAC's support to Member States in developing their technical expertise continued in November, with the organisation of a Best Practices for Drafting Technical Specifications for Security Equipment training course conducted in Russian. This online training was delivered to seven security experts from Armenia, Lithuania, Republic of Moldova and Ukraine.
4 November 2021 - The ECAC Coordinating Committee reviewed the business of ECAC based on recommendations from the ECAC Medium-Term Objectives Task Force (EMTO), and discussed other essential business ahead of the December DGCA meeting (DGCA/157).
3 November 2021 - Climate change risks and adaptation needs for European aviation was the topic under discussion at the fifth monthly ECAC familiarisation webinar on basic knowledge on aviation and the environment.
29 October 2021 - The first ECAC Workshop on Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAF), held virtually, focused on important international and European developments on SAF policies, including the ReFuel EU Aviation regulatory proposal, with speakers from ACAO, AFCAC, the European Commission, EASA, ECAC Member States, ICAO and the ECAC Secretariat.
27-29 October 2021 - During his first visit to ICAO headquarters as ECAC President, Alessio Quaranta, together with ECAC Executive Secretary Patricia Reverdy, met with several Council members from all regions and enjoyed discussions on the lessons learnt from the ICAO High-level Conference on COVID-19, the priorities for the next ICAO Assembly in 2022 and cooperation between the regions.
Paris/videoconference, 28 October 2021 - The members and observers of ECAC’s Facilitation Working Group met for their first hybrid meeting, in Paris, following several months of activity in the aviation domain with a heavy focus on facilitation matters.