Rule2024-16954
International Aviation Safety Assessment (IASA) Program
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Published
August 16, 2024
Issuing agencies
Transportation DepartmentFederal Aviation Administration
Abstract
On September 28, 2022, the FAA published a Policy Statement in the Federal Register that described policy changes to the FAA's International Aviation Safety Assessment (IASA) program as well as clarification or restatement of prior policy to "enhance engagement with civil aviation authorities (CAAs) through pre- and post-IASA assessment and to promote greater transparency." After receiving inquiries and questions about the changes described in that policy statement, the FAA is suspending implementation of the September 28, 2022, Policy Statement while the agency reassesses the policy. The policy statement published March 8, 2013, remains active.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 159 (Friday, August 16, 2024)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Page 66546]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-16954]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Aviation Administration
14 CFR Part 129
International Aviation Safety Assessment (IASA) Program
AGENCY: Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Department of
Transportation (DOT).
ACTION: Suspension of policy statement.
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SUMMARY: On September 28, 2022, the FAA published a Policy Statement in
the Federal Register that described policy changes to the FAA's
International Aviation Safety Assessment (IASA) program as well as
clarification or restatement of prior policy to ``enhance engagement
with civil aviation authorities (CAAs) through pre- and post-IASA
assessment and to promote greater transparency.'' After receiving
inquiries and questions about the changes described in that policy
statement, the FAA is suspending implementation of the September 28,
2022, Policy Statement while the agency reassesses the policy. The
policy statement published March 8, 2013, remains active.
DATES: The policy statement published at 87 FR 58725 (September 28,
2022) is suspended as of August 16, 2024.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Rolandos Lazaris, Division Manager,
International Program Division (AFS-50), Flight Standards Service,
Federal Aviation Administration, 800 Independence Avenue SW,
Washington, DC 20591; (202) 267-3719.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
The IASA program is the means by which the FAA determines whether
another country's oversight of its air carriers that (1) operate, or
seek to operate, services to/from the United States using their own
aircraft and crews, or (2) seek to display the code of a U.S. air
carrier on any services, complies with safety standards established by
the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). The published
IASA results of a country's placement in Category 1 or Category 2 is
the notification to the U.S. traveling public as to whether a foreign
air carrier's homeland civil aviation authority meets ICAO safety
standards. A Category 1 rating indicates that the civil aviation
authority meets ICAO safety standards for these operations, and a
Category 2 rating indicates that the civil aviation authority does not
meet ICAO safety standards. The IASA program was established by a
document published in the Federal Register in 1992. Subsequent
published documents in the Federal Register notified of the program's
evolution. These Federal Register documents are as follows:
<bullet> August 24, 1992--Established the FAA Procedures for
Examining and Monitoring Foreign Air Carriers (57 FR 38342).
<bullet> September 8, 1994--Established the Public Disclosure of
the Results of Foreign Civil Aviation Authority Assessments, through a
three-category numbered rating system (59 FR 46332).
<bullet> October 31, 1995--DOT Notice Clarification Concerning
Examination of Foreign Carriers' Request for Expanded Economic
Authority, clarified the Department's licensing policy regarding
requests for expanded economic authority from foreign air carriers
whose CAA's safety oversight capability has been assessed by the FAA as
conditional (Category II) or unacceptable (Category III) (60 FR 55408).
<bullet> May 25, 2000--Changes to the International Aviation Safety
Assessment program removed the Category 3 rating and combined it with
Category 2 (65 FR 33751).
<bullet> March 8, 2013--Changes to the International Aviation
Safety Assessment program removed inactive countries (countries with no
air carrier operations to the United States or code-shares with U.S.
air carrier for four years and no significant interaction between the
country's CAA and the FAA) from the IASA Category list (78 FR 14912).
Through the IASA program, the FAA seeks continuous improvement to
global aviation safety. As noted in the above-referenced policy
statement of September 8, 1994, initial IASA assessments found that
two-thirds of the assessed CAAs were deficient in meeting their safety
oversight obligations under the Convention on International Civil
Aviation.
The September 28, 2022, Policy Statement (87 FR 58725) (now
suspended) announced certain changes to the IASA program and provided
clarification to other aspects of the IASA policy. Since that
publication, the FAA and DOT have received inquiries and questions that
warrant reassessment of those changes and clarifications, and an
opportunity for public comment before they are adopted permanently. As
noted above, the FAA is suspending implementation of the September 28,
2022, Policy Statement while the agency reassesses the policy and
considers public comments. Public comment is invited on the matters and
issues described in the companion document published elsewhere in this
issue of the Federal Register.
Issued in Washington, DC.
Jodi L. Baker,
Deputy Administrator for Aviation Safety.
[FR Doc. 2024-16954 Filed 8-15-24; 8:45 am]
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