WORLDWIDE STANDARDS WORLDWIDE STANDARDS IMPLEMENTATION ASPECTS IMPLEMENTATION ASPECTS FOR TRANSITION COUNTRIESFOR TRANSITION COUNTRIES

Presenter: BORIVOJ GALOVIC, Phd. Assistant profesor University of Zagreb – Croatia Faculty of traffic and transport engineering

“TRANSITION COUNTRIES”: Former Eastern block states –behind the “Iron Curtain”- oriented and

in transition toward “free world”: and/or States in transition from communistic centralism system to free market

economy

Barriers to join international Barriers to join international aviation transportaviation transport

Transition countries in the west-world aviation are “new in the game” experiencing radical environmental and unfamiliar changes, with trends towards greater deregulation and market in which prices are determined by unrestricted competition;

“Money is the name of the game” in which lack of finnancial power to change East-made fleet, tools and equipment (uncertified in accordance with FAR/JAR Standards) makes them incapable;

All of it came at once -newly established administration & organization, present demands to complete numerous training programs and gain new skills, acceptance of new Standards etc.

Safety aspectsSafety aspects Question of “Safety versus profit” appears always

when raising deregulation and market competition is evident;

Standards by themselves does not guarantee safety, but forms and provide fundaments to establish and organize mutual implementation for satisfactory level of safety;

Recently purchaced Boeing or Airbus airplanes for which technology and standards transition countries and operators are not fully acquainted with, might jeopardize international aviation safety (if not helped);

Area applicabilityArea applicabilityGeographicaly almost all transition

countries are in Europe – almost about 25% of Europe’s area surrounding central Europe - with great number of states and air operators (cca 50 with cca 100 jets), considerable population and air traffic growth; all ICAO members, and most of them ECAC members, EUROCONTROL etc. – i.e. west orientated.

European traffic growth ratesEuropean traffic growth rates

““TOP-DOWN” schematic diagram for TOP-DOWN” schematic diagram for “Recognizing the need for decision”“Recognizing the need for decision”

A ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS B

•if it isn’t broke, don’t fix it!

•if the goose is giving golden eggs, why change her food mixture?

•Experiencing radical environmental changes!

•Experiencing competition on unfamiliar ground

NO The need for change must be considered YES

Enjoy with achieved & hard-earned success

COMPLACENCY

FatiqueUltimate failure

Analyze and define options without constrains

Clearly defined need for a change

Selection of appropriate absolute & relative measures used in evaluating options

Leadership

Productive dissatisfaction

External Quality Control

Disrespect conventional wisdom

•Faster = more efficient

•Quality = goal in itself

•Down-sizing = more competitive

•Quantitative measures = essentialTrue, if properly related to the real goals

NO

When fundations shifts and commitment culture is shaken – it’s hard to change

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Summarized major obstacles transition Summarized major obstacles transition countries are faced with:countries are faced with:

CAA Administration staff: separating from former centralized governmental system, a

new (unskilled) administration is established; lack of experienced and aviation-professional

administration staff; if there is experienced staff, the language problem is

evident and makes it difficult; newly established government faces problem in

differentiation between professional and politicaly loyal staff (CAA leadership)

lack of legal administrator’s individuality

Legal problems:Legal problems:

in many transition countries legal obstacles exist for adoption of “foreign” regulations not complying to State Constitution;

most legal systems of transition countries don’t recognize institution of “Designated Representative” (DAR) to solve lack of professional administration staff;

Financial problemsFinancial problems

privatisation process is not completed, or obstacles exist for entering private or foreign capital;

unfamiliar with free market economy system and strong competition, or not equiped for it;

financial incapability to get rid of east-made fleet and equipment;

Future directions:Future directions: PHARE ATS extensive programm (1990-2000) for Eastern European countries

achieved exellent results, and could be used as a model for implementation of Worldwide Standards:

Familiarize transition countries with FAR, JAR and harmonized FAR/JAR Standards – free sets or prescriptions;

Review readiness (pre-audit) upon clearly defined application; Provide clear, exact and firm conditional instructions (eligible CAA staff, legal

system changes etc.); Propose appropriate CAA organization; Propose additional training programms, on the job training and delegate supervisors; Propose financial support – linked with merging, pool agreements, joint investments

etc. Provide frequent and regular audits/inspections

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Global industry requires global and Global industry requires global and standardized air space, standardized air space,

or “old mother” Europe doesn’t look like or “old mother” Europe doesn’t look like “mother” at all....“mother” at all....

Let’s look at her like this....Let’s look at her like this....