Estrategic Plan
LACAC Strategic Plan 2019-2030, approved by the IV Extraordinary Assembly (September 2019). Download here.
Macro Task: Operational Safety
Focal point: Chile
Responsible Professional: Cesar Mac-Namara
E-mail: [email protected]
Tasks:
- Exchange of safety data.
Macro Task: Aviation Security and Facilitation
Focal point: Cuba
Responsible Professional: Nestar Maria Rojas Alvarez
E-mail: [email protected]
Tasks:
- Survey on Facilitation among LACAC member states.
- Others in the process of being prepared by the AVSEC-FAL Regional Group.
Macro Task: Transport and Aviation Policy
Focal point: Brasil
Responsible Professional: André Airton de Macedo Rebouças
E-mail: [email protected]
Tasks:
- Single system for flight authorisation between the countries of the region.
- Open Skies Multilateral Agreement between the Member States of LACAC and AFCAC.
- Permanent Multilateral Agreement for the liberalization of the seventh freedom for only-cargo services.
- Creation of a competition indicator in the civil aviation market.
Macro Task: Airport Management
Focal point: Uruguay
Responsible Professional: Miguel Olivera
E-mail: [email protected]
Task:
- Experience in airport concessions as an improvement of good practices: experience in Uruguay and other States.
- Care for people with disabilities, as a complement to the already existing ICAO manual.
Macro Task: Environment
Focal point: Guatemala
Responsible Professional: Giovanni Tobar
E-mail: [email protected]
Tasks – Work Plan 2021 (updated to November 2020) :
- Seminars on alternative fuels for aviation, proposing as a partner the Federal Aviation Administration of the United States of America (FAA).
- Discussion on the challenges in implementation of the CORSIA post pandemis, proposing as a partner SENASA and AESA.
- Development of a postgraduate proposal on sustainable aviation, proposing as a partner to Latin American Civil Aviation Institute (ILAC).
- Presentation, scope and implementation of the Green Book of the Central American Corporation for Air Navigation Services, COCESNA, as a corporate environmental ideology.
Ad Hoc group:
- Ad hoc group “Environment» (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Guatemala, ALTA, IATA, IFALPA).
Macro Task: Training
Focal point: Dominican Republic
Responsible Professional: Juberkis Luciano Familia
E-mail: [email protected]
Tasks:
- Continous study of the demand for training for the LACAC member States.
- Constant updating of the Latin American Civil Aviation Commission website.
- Promote capacity building for the members of the executive and judicial function.
- Identification of virtual and onsite training offers for LACAC member states.
- Knowledge management.
- Update and renew agreements with countries and institutions offering scholarships and training.
Contributions: The ANACPEDIA database, developed by the National Civil Aviation Agency of Brazil (ANAC), is made available in order to be useful for understanding aeronautical terminology in English, Spanish and Portuguese (GEPEJTA/42).
Strategic Objectives
A. Strengthen coordination between civil aviation authorities and other actors in the aviation sector and promote the efforts of technical groups to enable the Sustainable Development of the sector in Latin America.
B. Guarantee regional representation in ICAO and in other international forums.
C. Develop a strategic management model for institutional strengthening that guarantees its permanence over time and in its space of incidence.
Execution Lines
Each of the three strategic objectives and their corresponding strategic lines of action contemplate the execution guidelines or tasks.
The set of tasks makes up the Commission’s Operational Plan.
Each Operational Plan will be established at the beginning of a new term of the LACAC Executive Committees and will last for two years.
Strategic lines of action
A. Strengthen coordination between civil aviation authorities and other actors in the aviation sector and promote the efforts of technical groups to enable the Sustainable Development of the sector in Latin America.
A.1. Continue promoting the liberalization or opening of air transport.
A.2. Follow up on regional integration processes.
A.3. Promote the exchange of specialized aerial work and general aviation.
A.4. Promote the establishment of information systems for the airline industry in Latin America.
A.5. Develop and update consultation documents and guides in the different spheres of civil aviation in Latin America.
A.6. Promote the exchange of information between the different ICAO working groups and the work carried out by the Commission.
A.7. Promote the creation and strengthening of capacities in the different areas of international civil aviation.
A.8. Harmonize and promote the coordination of the activities of regional entities related to safety.
A.9. Promote exchanges and collaboration on AVSEC/FAL issues.
A.10. Develop advertising and marketing strategies for the Latin American Civil Aviation Commission.
A.11. Adopt a proactive attitude in approaching other States and international organizations to sign mutual cooperation agreements.
A.12. Manage horizontal cooperation agreements between the Member States.
A.13. Expand and improve connectivity between the States of the region through the establishment of commercial air relations.
A.14. Monitor the adoption and validity of decisions by the Member States.
A.15. Establish a contingency coordination system for extreme natural events between aeronautical authorities.
A.16. Promote studies on the multidimensional impacts of aviation in the Latin American region.
B. Guarantee regional representation in ICAO and in other international forums.
B.1. Promote actions that guarantee the representativeness of Latin America in the ICAO Council.
B.2. Promote greater participation of officials from the Latin American region working at ICAO.
B.3. Coordinate the support of regional positions in the different forums.
C. Desarrollar un modelo de gestión estratégica para el fortalecimiento institucional que garantice su permanencia en el tiempo y en su espacio de incidencia.
C.1. Analizar de manera integral el Estatuto de la CLAC y proponer su modificación.
C.2. Promover una mayor participación de los Estados miembros en las reuniones la CLAC.
C.3. Promover la adhesión de otros Estados de la región en la CLAC.