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see how the various threads had progressed and introduce concepts that will likely evolve into proposals at future
the GANP Portal where all aviation stakeholders will be able meetings, and papers designed to provoke discussion on
to find the most relevant information related to the GANP. how the Panel operates. The only major decision taken at
this meeting was to approve compromise language that
A considerable amount of work has been achieved for this can be used by states to require DG awareness training of
new edition of the GANP in an effort to try and explain entities that don’t intend to handle DG. This is an effort to
the ASBUs and how to implement them. It is a complex reduce the amount undeclared DG entering air transport.
task; this edition is a little easier to understand but there The language was a major compromise since certain coun-
still needs to be further work done for future editions to tries have no legal ability to require DG training for entities
simplify how to recognise what each State needs and how that do not intend to ship DG. This proposal will make it
to achieve it. The GANP Portal will continue to be devel- easier for many countries to require all freight forwarders
oped and it hoped that States will eventually be able to to have an undeclared dangerous goods awareness train-
pose questions concerning their needs and be pointed in ing program. At this meeting it was announced that ICAO
the right direction as to what to do. will form the Safe Carriage of Goods Working Group (SC-
GWG) to address various multidisciplinary issues related
It is likely that IFALPA will be asked to participate in the next to the transportation of Dangerous goods. It was recog-
PPT for the next GANP. nized that many of the issues being discussed at the DGP
required input from Airworthiness and Flight Operations
Air Traffic Management Requirements and Perfor- Experts, and the formation of the SCGWG would greatly
mance Panel (ATMRPP) facilitate important safety discussions on these issues.
There is now progression towards the first stage of the
Flight & Flow Information for a Collaborative Environment Cargo Safety Sub Group (CSSG)
(FF-ICE) project being implemented. The aim of this meet- The Cargo Safety Sub Group met in Montreal the following
ing in March was to progress the development of the pro- week to finalize guidance material to support a risk assess-
visions for FF-ICE Release I. There have been several table ment requirement for airlines to conduct on the items they
top exercises to test the validity of the release and they carry in their cargo compartments with a special emphasis
have highlighted several issues which will be worked on on ensuring the risk of fire is adequately addressed. The
in the coming months. In developing the provisions and CSSG is a multidisciplinary group, and participants were
guidance material several new terms will come into being experts in airworthiness, flight operations, and dangerous
and it will important to understand what these mean and goods.
how they will affect day to day operations. Initially, there
will be mixed mode operations which will need to incorpo- The CSSG has been working on two documents, one is a
rate both the 2012 Flight Plan and the FF-ICE flight plan. risk assessment requirement and the other is guidance ma-
That may prove very difficult initially. It should be noted terial on how to perform a risk assessment. The goal of
that the transition to FF-ICE and the associated benefits will the guidance material is to help airlines conduct the risk
need to be carefully explained to States and Industry for a assessment and regulators oversee the risk assessment
smooth transition to be safe. process.

ICAO Global Reporting Format Symposium Unmanned Aircraft Systems Advisory Group
IFALPA participated Global Reporting Format - GRF Sym- This is one of two groups in ICAO that explores drone
posium on 26-28 March. Key stakeholders together with operation beyond the work of the RPAS Panel. While this
about 30% of different national aviation authorities were means it can only create guidance material, it is an impor-
present forming 300 professionals networking actively tant link between industry, regulators and ICAO. A major
throughout the symposium. Speakers and panelists con- part of the meeting was to form two writing groups that
centrated on the introduction of GRF and its implementa- would analyse the results of Drone Enable 2 for publication
tion in November 2020. The FAA gave good hints for the in an appendix to the framework document, which sum-
implementation using their own experience in TALPA ARC marises the information received at Drone Enable 2. While
implementation as an example. IFALPA - representing the one group studied the boundaries between Unmanned
end users - called for willingness for the change and em- aircraft system Traffic Management (UTM) and Air Traffic
phasized the importance of training all stakeholders. After Management (ATM), the other concentrated on essential
each session there was a posibility for questions and ICAO information and challenges in exchanging it.
counted 218 questions. Even though time was limited to
answer all question, many of them were answered. The Drone Enable 3 will be in Montreal 12-14 November to
questions also form good grounds for structuring future present best practices by the industry and regulators and
programmes for future regional seminars which will start highlight challenges. Tentatively, Days 1 and 3 will cover
this summer. topics of interest (e.g. Rules of the Air, Cybersecurity, In-
formation Management, applicable ICAO work, Operations
Dangerous Goods Panel (DGP) above FL600, High Seas operation) while Day 2 is reserved
The ICAO Dangerous Goods Panel met in Montreal 1-5 for topics relating to the request for information (RFI).
April. The panel discussed three types of papers; proposals ICAO has also established a taskforce on UAS for humani-
to modify the Technical Instructions (TIs), most of which tarian purposes to produce guidance material for regula-
were highly technical in nature, papers introducing tors and operators. This may, in time, produce a template
for national regulations for open and specific operations.