The African Civil Aviation
Commission (AFCAC) is calling for the partnership of AFI States in
building up a pool of Safety Inspectors under the AFI Cooperative
Inspectorate Scheme (CIS).
AFCAC is seeking to establish Memorandum of
Understanding with individual States "for the use of the State's
Government Safety Inspectors under the AFI Cooperative Inspectorate
Scheme (CIS)," in boosting safety in the African region.
The general provisions of the MOU
indicate that each individual State shall recommend to AFCAC
appropriately qualified Inspectors for consideration and selection
into the AFI Cooperative Inspectorate pool; agrees to make its
appropriately qualified National Inspectors available for the
inspectorate scheme and agrees to the conditions developed and
accepted for their use. It also provides that the services to be
provided by the National Inspectors under this Cooperative
Inspectorate Scheme shall be in line with the scope of services as
contained in the MOU.
The CIS, AFCAC says, will be
managed by AFCAC with technical support and training handled
by ICAO. A total of US$ 1 million will be all-ocated for this
priority project, according to AFCAC.
"The scheme will assist States to
continually meet their safety oversight obligations. States may
require the services of experts to undertake safety certification
activities may request for secondment of inspectors from the
scheme," AFCAC adds.
The project designed to be
operational by January 1, 2011, has the aim of "meeting a target of
a minimum of 10% unit reduction annually in the lack of effective
implementation of the critical elements of a State Safety Oversight
System in two years, and, removing all African States from the ICAO
Audit Review Board (ARRB) list within two years."