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Primary Operational
Goals
In order to fulfil its general objectives,
the Flight Safety Authority’s operational goals included
the following during 2003:
The Flight Safety Authority takes part in the preparatory
work for the introduction of the European Union’s air
safety authority (EASA), both on the administrative board
and in the preparation of its norms at expert level.
The Flight Safety Authority was actively involved in preparations
for the EASA regulations and implementing rules and gave statements
on broader proposals for the essential requirements (ER) and
implementing rules (IR). The Flight Safety Authority participated
in meetings of the European Union’s EASA committee,
in which it proposed amendments to the regulations.
Development work on the ESARR regulations concerning air traffic
control activities continues through participation in the
work of the Eurocontrol safety regulation commission (SRC).
The Nordic committee’s work on harmonizing nordic aviation
regulations is also continuing. ESARR 3 concerning safety
management systems used in air traffic management and ESARR
5, which concerns air traffic controller licences, will come
into force in 2003. The Flight Safety Authority publishes
national aviation regulations based on these standards.
The Flight Safety Authority took part in the conferences of
the safety regulation commission and in the work of its subcommittees.
Cooperation among the Nordic countries on harmonizing national
air traffic control regulations has continued. The national
aviation regulation based on ESARR 3 concerning the use of
safety management systems by air traffic management service
providers (ANS M 1-1) was published and came into force in
July 2003. New aviation regulations were drawn up on the basis
of ESARR 5 concerning the personnel of air traffic management
services (ANS M 1-2), licences for air traffic control trainees
(PEL M 3-12) and the authorization of competence assessors
(PEL M 3-13), and the requisite changes were made to the regulations
concerning air traffic controller licences (PEL M 3-10). The
regulations came into force in November 2003.
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