Montreal, Canada. – The dominican delegation before the 41st general assembly of the International Civil Aviation Organization (Icao) presented advances registered by the country through regules adoption and regulation oriented to strengthen legal certainty and operational of the aeronautical sector.
When presenting a balance of the first official country partipation in the day of Icao, the interim general director of the Dominican Institute of Civil Aviation (Idac) Héctor Porcella explained that the national delegation had an active participation in several work commissions, with special emphasis in legal matters and reglamentary.
In interest conflict, the delegation represented by Porcella himself; Idacs legal director, Bernarda Franco; and the Dominican Republic Ambassador before Icao, Julio Peña, highlighted the measures adopted by the country to avoid interest conflicts in the aviation, ensure independent and impartial regulation by creating a suitable climate to strengthen operational safety.
They quote specifically the country approved instruments that establish restrictions to situations that may generate interest conflicts, as law Núm. 491-06 of the Dominican Republic Civil Aviation and the adoption of annex 19 about Safety Operational Managements, recommended by Icao.
This component determines the guidelines that must be establish by each State to manage the operational safety in its civil aviation system, in a way that facilitates to the management and its staff the necessary instructions to accomplish with the market objectives by the State Safety Program- SSP.
Porcella highlighted the recent implementation in Idac of Regulatory Compliance Management Model and Anti bribery, oriented to implement the necessary controls to prevent and stop the administrative corruption and to elevate the levels of efficiency in operatives and service areas of the institution.
While the legal director, Bernarda Franco, presented the notes of an elaborated studio by the Dominican Republic with a series of considerations about interest conflicts and civil responsibilities in the operations of Remotely Piloted Aircraft System (Rpas) by its acronym in English.
In this last aspect, draw the attention about the growing operations related with leisure activities, air jobs such as pictures, air recordings, air mapping, agriculture y agroindustry, loading transport, emergency medical units, medicines transport to remote places, among other commercials activities.
Notes and presentations presented by the dominican delegation were widely support by other delegations and by the presidency and the secretary of the legal committee, agreeing the plenary of the included proposal in the next session of the legal committee.