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PROGRESS REPORT MAY - JULY 2009

 

A            Summary – Brief

 

Meetings and consultations were held regarding funding and membership for the AFRO-CAA.

 

(A summary of activities is given below).

 

B          Meetings

 

1.      Meetings were held with the Ministry of Transport in Kenya and it was agreed that follow-up meetings will be held later in the year as soon as the new Kenyan Civil Aviation Authority Director General takes up his new position.

 

2.      Meetings was held in Swakopmund and in Berlin, Germany.

 

 

 

SADC Meeting, All Ministers of Transport of the SADC Region

 

 

Jonathan Majakwara

SADC Secretariat (Senior Programme Manager-Air Transport Infrastructure and Services Directorate)

 

Ericsson Nengola

Director Aircraft Accident Investigations - Namibia

 

 

 

                  All participants from Germany, Europe and IC

 

Christoph Ahlhaus

Senator of Transport

 

Luftsicherheit Meeting, Berlin 17-19 June 2009

Capt. Harry Eggerschwiler (AFRO-CAA)  and Professor Dr. Jur Giemulla (FORUM Institute)

  

           

 Capt. Harry Eggerschwiler (AFRO-CAA)

& Michael Eggenschwiler (Chief of Hamburg Airport and Chairman all German Airports)

 

3.      Consultations with Europe and USA organizations interested in securing funding for the AFRO-CAA concluded positively.  It was agreed that States would be contacted to engaged these organizations directly together with the Secretariat in order to proceed with the funding problem.

 

C         Programme Follow-up/Marketing

 

A Consultant was engaged to advice on continental legal issues, funding within Africa and the development of the quarterly AFRO-CAA magazine.

 

D         SADC, EAC, IATA, ECA, AFRAA

 

            No meetings were held.

 

E          MOUs Development

 

No new developments.

 

F          AFCAC/NEPAD/ICAO

 

No new meetings.

 

G         Legal

 

Member States continue to study the proposed harmonized regulations which will be discussed at the next

board meeting.

 

H         Funding

           

Member states have agreed to accompany the Secretariat to Europe to confirm their support for the proposed funding programme.

 

I           Any other Business

           

Nil.

 

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