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The ICAO 40th General

Assembly

By Captain Mike Jackson

IFALPA Representative to ICAO & Technical Director

The ICAO 40th General Assembly (A/40) took place in Montreal, 24 September to 4 October, with over
2,500 delegates attending from 130 member States and over 50 International Organizations (IOs). This
was the highest attendance in ICAO’s history.
The Assembly meets as
a whole in Plenary at
the beginning and end
of the two week period
(additionally for elections
in the middle), while the
agenda of Working Paper
discussions gets divided
up into five separate
groups: The Executive
Committee, Economic
Commission, Techni-
cal Commission, Legal
Commission, and Ad-
ministrative Commission.
The work of these five is
then reported back to the
Plenary and adopted into
Assembly resolutions.
Those resolutions form
the direction of ICAO for
the next triennium and
also make statements on
a particular subject such
as CORSIA (the globally
accepted Carbon Offset
scheme).