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Published: 19 April 2023

Paris/videoconference, 18-19 April 2023 – More than 40 security experts from 25 ECAC Member States, including from the industry, participated in a workshop on recruitment, training and certification of screeners in a post-pandemic environment. For the first time, ECAC organised such an event in a hybrid format to meet the requests of several Member States wishing to join the workshop remotely for practical and cost-management reasons.

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Published: 13 April 2023

Paris, 12-13 April 2023 — The ECAC Secretariat organised the second Recurrent Training and Recertification of ECAC Auditors in the form of a workshop. The purpose of this activity was to confirm that auditors still possess the necessary knowledge and competencies, including knowledge of ECAC Doc 30, Part II — Security and the ECAC Audit Methodology, to participate in ECAC audits.

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Published: 13 April 2023

Paris, 13 April 2023 — The 65th meeting of the Facilitation Working Group was hosted by the French Directorate General of Civil Aviation at its offices in Paris. The meeting’s wide-ranging agenda included reports from the facilitation sub-groups on the transport of persons with reduced mobility (PRM) and on immigration matters. States agreed to launch the latest PRM complaints survey in May, and noted significant work to be undertaken by the ad hoc study group on Doc 30 Part I — Facilitation to prepare a revised version for autumn 2023.

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Published: 07 April 2023

Amsterdam, 3-7 April 2023 — A Best Practices for National Auditors – Level 1 (BPNA-1) training course was organised in Amsterdam, where two groups of modules were discussed: core modules introduced the participants to inspection methodology and techniques, assessment of compliance, debriefing, and report writing; the second group of modules focused on inspecting passenger and cabin baggage screening, hold baggage screening and protection, as well as passenger and baggage reconciliation.

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Published: 06 April 2023

Videoconference, 5-6 April 2023 — The Security Forum met online to review the achievements of ECAC’s security groups in 2022, and progress on 2023 tasks. The participants were briefed on capacity-building activities as well as on the reopening of the ECAC aviation security audit programme.

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Published: 05 April 2023

Videoconference, 3-5 April 2023 — The ECAC Secretariat conducted the fourth Best Practices for National Auditors – Cyber Security (basic) training course in April, with contributions from instructors from Germany and Poland. The course allowed national auditors from Sweden and Switzerland to develop their knowledge of cyber security measures aimed at protecting critical aviation systems and data from cyber threats.