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12 May 2022 - The fifth virtual meeting of the ECAC/EU Sustainable Aviation Fuels Task Group (SAF-TG) took stock of the information received from the stakeholders attending the first SAF-TG workshop held two days earlier (see article above). The workshop had identified challenges for SAF reporting and claiming under different jurisdictions and scopes, and discussed how to address those challenges in order to incorporate adequate advice into the SAF guidance being developed by the task group.

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Paris, 12 May 2022 - Coordinating Committee members met with senior United States' representatives from the State Department, Department of Transportation, Federal Aviation Administration and Transportation Security Administration for the first time since 2019, having since then met by videoconference during the COVID-19 pandemic. The discussions reaffirmed the close cooperation between ECAC and the US authorities across the range of aviation domains, with a particular emphasis on ambitions and expectations for the 41^st ICAO Assembly, recovery from the COVID-related disruption, and the impact on aviation following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

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Published: 11 May 2022

Paris/hybrid, 11 May 2022 - During DGCA/158, Oleksandr Bilchuk (DGCA Ukraine), was appointed by acclamation as a new member of the ECAC Coordinating Committee.

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Paris/hybrid, 11 May 2022 - ECAC’s Directors General of Civil Aviation gathered in Paris for their 158^th meeting, joined by observers from the European Commission, EASA, EUROCONTROL, ICAO and JAA TO.

Ahead of the ICAO High-level Meeting on the feasibility of a long-term aspirational goal (HLM-LTAG) in July and the 41^st ICAO Assembly in September and October, a significant share of the discussions focused on Europe’s ambitions on environmental matters.

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Published: 10 May 2022

10 May 2022 - A kick-off workshop aimed at feeding into the SAF best practice document was organised to identify barriers for SAF supply-and-use reporting, and claiming of CO₂ reductions under different jurisdictions or schemes. The event welcomed representatives of IATA, ISCC - the sustainability certification scheme, and Fuels Europe, and featured inputs on regulatory developments from representatives of ECAC Member States France, Norway and the United Kingdom.

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Published: 04 May 2022

4 May 2022 - The tenth monthly ECAC familiarisation webinar on basic knowledge on aviation and the environment was dedicated to understanding electrofuels (also known as synthetic aviation fuels, power-to-liquid (PtL) or e-fuels) – a type of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) promoted by some ECAC Member States and the ReFuelEU regulatory proposal.