On 25th of July, in Skopje Mr. Nikolche Taseski, the Executive Director of ANS and Mr. Aleksandar Palcevski, the Executive Director of CNS had an official meeting with Mr. Patrick Ky, the Executive Director of the European Aviation Safety Agency – EASA. Due to having been invited by PhD Tomislav Tuntev, CAA Director, the meeting was held in CAA`s premises, also Mrs. Annika Haug, Head of EASA Executive Director`s Office, Mr. Alper Ersoy and Mr. Nejat Kurt, the Managers of TAV Macedonia attended the meeting. The visit of High-Level EASA delegation is of crucial importance for all aviation stakeholders in the country.
EASA Director has shown a special interest for both the targets and the challenges posed by the aviation Authorities in collaboration with the Government and with the other aviation stakeholders in the country.
Putting the light on the position and the role of EASA in providing safe and secure European air transport, Ky emphasised that the EASA model proved to be an extremely successful and unique model within the European framework, because as he said, in the past, there was no other model, except for the FAA model of the United States of America.
Today, every new model that is being developed worldwide takes over the essentials of EASA. Countries of Asia and Middle East are an example for this and they have decided to follow the model of EASA, Ky underlined.
At the meeting, the direct EASA involvement in the process of putting into operation the new ATM system was of special importance for M-NAV and through CAA it will assist in ensuring more safe and more expeditious implementation of the system. Further, it was discussed about the current development in the area of regulating the unmanned aircrafts and about the need of establishing a training centre for air traffic controllers, for pilots of both aircraft and unmanned aircraft and for other aviation personnel.
EASA will be ultimately committed to make conditions for establishing such a centre by following the example of Poland where such an academy successfully operates.
The importance of cyber security and passing a regulation related to it was also discussed during the meeting.