Baku hosting ICAO EUR Environment Project Team meeting

Baku is hosting the 1st ICAO EUR Environment Project Team meeting (ICAO EUR ENV PT) today.

The ICAO EUR ENV PT was established at a joint meeting of the European Air Navigation Planning Group (EANPG COG) and European Regional Coordination Group (RCOG), held on May 16-18, 2018, at the ICAO office in Paris.

The two-day meeting is organized by the State Civil Aviation Agency under the Ministry of Transport, Communications and High Technologies.

The purpose of the event is to investigate and discuss the ways to resolve the issues related to the implementation of international requirements for environmental protection problems in civil aviation at the expert level.

The meeting is attended by experts from the ICAO accredited countries in Europe and international aviation agencies.

It should be noted that the European Civil Aviation Conference (ECAC) with its 44 member states including Azerbaijan supported The Bratislava Declaration in the context of the CORSIA (Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation) on September 3, 2016.

According to the Declaration, starting from 2020, national airlines will be obliged to report to the state aviation authorities about the amount of carbon emissions from their flights. In their turn, the state aviation authorities will be obliged to submit annual reports to the ICAO.