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ICAO Facilitation Panel (FALP/11)
The 11th meeting of the Facilitation Panel was
held almost 12 months earlier than planned,
(13-16 January 2020) to develop Standards and
Recommended Practices (SARPs) for Passenger
Name Record (PNR) Data. This was requested
by the United Nations Security Council, through
Resolution 2396 which declared that all UN
Member States shall develop the capability to
collect, process and analyse PNR with full respect
for human rights and fundamental freedoms. It
also urged ICAO to develop a standard for the
collection, use, processing, and protection of PNR
and for States to implement their programs “in
furtherance of ICAO standards and recommended
practices.”

A PNR Task Force had been set up and they
produced the first set of SARPs for the Panel to
review. After considerable discussion and break-
out sessions the SARPS were finally agreed upon,
these will now go to the Air Transport Committee
for approval to be sent out as State Letter.

In addition, the Human Trafficking Working Group
was formed and a set of Terms of Reference (ToRs)
agreed upon. IFALPA is part of this Working Group.
There was concern that with bringing this Panel
meeting forward it would mean a gap of nearly
three years before the next meeting, it is likely
this will need to be discussed more fully by the Air
Transport Committee.

ICAO UAS Advisory Group (UAS AG)
The UAS AG was held in Montreal 21-24 January
2020. The UAS Advisory Group was set-up by ICAO to
cater for the needs of states and industry to include
UAS of all kinds into an Unmanned aircraft system
traffic management (UTM). This is independent
of the work carried out by the ICAO RPAS Panel,
which solely focuses on international, IFR RPAS
operations. The UAS AG is developing guidance
material to highlight challenges and enablers as
well as best practices for a safe integration of UAS,
especially in an urban environment. This meeting
analysed the results from Drone Enable/3 creating
Appendices to the UTM Framework document and
started to set topics for Drone Enable/4 which will
be held later this year in Brazil. Work was continued
on drafting the Request For Information (RFI) for
the Symposium and internal assessment questions
that will rate contributions for inclusion in the
symposium.