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RO/MT/DGCA<br />
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<strong>AVIATION</strong> <strong>SECURITY</strong> <strong>REQUIREMENTS</strong> – <strong>CHALLENGES</strong><br />
<strong>TO</strong> APPROPRIATE AUTHORITIES<br />
Catalin RADU – Director General<br />
ROMANIA<br />
Ministry of Transport<br />
Directorate General of Civil Aviation
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1. Sources of Requirements<br />
• ICAO – Annex 17 to Chicago Convention –><br />
standards;<br />
• ECAC – Doc 30, PART II –> recommendations;<br />
• EU (for EU Member States) – aviation security<br />
regulations (framework and implementing regulations)<br />
–> “common rules”;<br />
• National Authorities – national legislation –><br />
national AVSEC programmes (NCASP, NCASQCP,<br />
NCASTP), national security measures, procedures,<br />
methods, methodologies and guidelines.<br />
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2. Diversity and Complexity of Requirements<br />
Arising from:<br />
• Different sources as mentioned above;<br />
• Different interpretations to the same requirements by<br />
states, international organisations or EU;<br />
• Not all requirements are formulated in a clear<br />
wording, due to, mainly, the compromises (between<br />
states, organisations) that had to be reached during<br />
the rulemaking process;<br />
• Different understanding of how requirements should<br />
be implemented at the national level.<br />
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3. Complexity of the National AVSEC System<br />
MINISTRY OF TRANSPORT<br />
(State Authority for Aviation Security)<br />
General Directorate of<br />
Civil Aviation<br />
Directorate of Aviation<br />
Security and Facilitation<br />
ROMATSA<br />
(ATM Services<br />
Provider)<br />
National Aviation<br />
Security Committee<br />
Ministry of<br />
Defence<br />
Additional Authorities dealing with<br />
aviation security matters<br />
Ministry of Administration and<br />
Interior<br />
Ministry of Foreign Affairs<br />
Other Governmental Agencies<br />
Air Carriers<br />
Other agents<br />
working on<br />
airport:<br />
- Cargo agents;<br />
- Catering<br />
suppliers;<br />
- Postal Authority<br />
Airports<br />
Airport Aviation Security<br />
Committee<br />
Inspectorate for Preventing and<br />
Counteracting Terrorism<br />
Anti – terrorist Brigade<br />
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3. Appropriate Authority – inherent organisational<br />
and functional difficulties<br />
• Insufficient staffing due to:<br />
‣ Low salaries as compared to those in the industry;<br />
‣ Very demanding job (complex and high volume of<br />
work);<br />
‣ Narrow area of recruiting staff (ideally, staff with<br />
operational experience in aviation);<br />
• Training of national auditors<br />
‣ Lack of instructors, at the national level, to train future<br />
national auditors;<br />
‣ Fortunately, Romania has benefited from ECAC<br />
assistance programme<br />
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3. Appropriate Authority – inherent organisational<br />
and functional difficulties<br />
• Position of Appropriate Authority amongst other<br />
state authorities<br />
‣ There are difficulties for states in providing the<br />
Appropriate Authorities with necessary enforcement<br />
powers to ensure the effectiveness of the NCASPs.<br />
• Dissemination of classified information<br />
‣ Most of the implementing security measures are<br />
contained in classified documents and because of that,<br />
Appropriate Authorities find it difficult to provide<br />
security related information.<br />
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3. Appropriate Authority – inherent organisational<br />
and functional difficulties<br />
• Time and resources consuming activities<br />
‣ Some activities are “process generating” type of<br />
activities: e.g. certification of screeners (it took us<br />
approx. 3 years to certifying around 1,000 screeners).<br />
Generaly speaking, all activities such<br />
authorisation/approval/supervision are time and<br />
resources consuming activities.<br />
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4. Appropriate Authority – other difficulties<br />
• Short time for implementing the newly adopted<br />
legislation – the process of amending NASP in<br />
order to be compliant with new international and<br />
European legislation;<br />
• Lack of guidance material on the operational<br />
aspects of important requirements which generate<br />
processes such as, for example, certification of<br />
screeners;<br />
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4. Appropriate Authority – other difficulties<br />
Lack of reliable data (validated by<br />
independent recognised entities) on<br />
equipment technical specifications<br />
‣ states not having national equipment testing<br />
laboratories, must rely entirely on manufacturers.<br />
• Not all Annex 17 standards are covered in full by<br />
ECAC Doc 30 recommendations or EU<br />
regulations in the field of aviation security.<br />
‣ e.g. management of response to acts of unlawful<br />
interference (Chap. 5, ICAO Annex 17).<br />
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4. Appropriate Authority – other difficulties<br />
• An additional task on Appropriate Authority<br />
consists in the oversight activities conducted by<br />
different international/intergovernmental<br />
organizations. Between February 2006 and April<br />
2008, Romania ha been subjected to the following<br />
Quality control activities :<br />
‣ 13-16.02.2006 – assessment by EC<br />
‣ 19-26.06.2006 – audit by ICAO/ECAC<br />
‣ 13-17.05.2007 – security visit TSA<br />
‣ 04-08.2007 – assessment by EC – OTP Airport<br />
‣ 14-18.01.2008 – assessment by EC – Appropriate Authority<br />
‣ 31.03-01.04.2008 – follow-up audit visit by ICAO
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4. Appropriate Authority – other difficulties<br />
• Although these activities are time and<br />
resources- consuming – organization,<br />
preparation of the pre-audit (assessment)<br />
questionnaire, issuing Corrective Action<br />
Plan, Romania has obtained good results<br />
at all this quality control activities.
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Thank you!<br />
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