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Published: 08 June 2023

Videoconference, 7-8 June 2023 — The ECAC Behaviour Detection Study Group met online to discuss progress made towards completing the group's 2023 work programme. In particular, progress in addressing mentoring requests from three ECAC Member States, and the organisation of the Behaviour Detection Research and Development workshop in September 2023, were  highlighted.

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Paris and online, 6-8 June 2023 — Climate change mitigation and steps towards achieving the 2050 net-zero CO₂ aspirational goal for international aviation (LTAG) agreed at the 41st ICAO Assembly in 2022 were the focus of the sixth ECAC Environmental Forum, held in Paris.

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Published: 31 May 2023

Bas Jacobs joins the ECAC Secretariat as a trainee from the Netherlands to support the activities of the group on the legal status of ECAC (LEGS). Bas is the Secretariat’s first trainee and will work directly with the Executive Secretary Patricia Reverdy as his mentor. Currently, he is pursuing an advanced LL. M in Air and Space Law at Leiden University, for which he expects to graduate in August 2023.

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Washington DC, 30-31 May 2023 — Members of the ECAC Coordinating Committee were welcomed by representatives of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Transportation Security Administration (TSA), Department of Transportation (DOT) and State Department. The two-day meeting in Washington DC (CC-US/27) was held to exchange information on a broad array of key issues ranging from aviation security, innovative technologies and commercial space, to transatlantic cooperation and furthering the sustainable aviation agenda.

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• Crispin Orr (United Kingdom) as chair of the ECAC Air Accident and Incident Investigation Group of Experts (ACC) for a second three-year mandate.
• Giovanna Laschena (Italy) as chair of the ECAC Network of Diversity and Inclusion in civil aviation.
• Mari Durban (United Kingdom) as deputy chair of the ECAC Network of Diversity and Inclusion in civil aviation.
• Kirsi Tervola-Joutsen (Finland) as deputy chair of the Sub-Group on Persons with Reduced Mobility.
• Ann-Kristin Hanssen (Norway) as deputy chair of the Legal Task Force.
• Päivi Jämsä (Finland) as deputy chair of the Economic Working Group.

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Warsaw, 23-26 May 2023 — A four-day Best Practices for National Auditors – Level 2 (BPNA-2) training course was organised for ten aviation security auditors from the State Aviation Administration of Ukraine (SAAU). The course was hosted by the Civil Aviation Authority of Poland and took place in Warsaw.