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International Civil Avatiation Organization
International Civil Aviation Organization, ICAO was established in 1947 by the Convention on International Civil Aviation (Chicago Convention).
The aims and objectives of the ICAO is to safeguard the orderly development of civil aviation. Activities include establishing and reviewing technical standards for aircraft and the licensing of personnel, promoting flight safety and developing airways, airports and air navigation facilities, preventing economic waste caused by unreasonable competition, and continuing the developmnet of international aviation law.
The supreme organ of the ICAO is the Assembly, composed of representatives of all member states.
The Assembly meets at least once every three years, reviewing work and setting policy. The executive organ is
the ICAO Council composed of 36 states. The Council may initiate investigations and serve as an ad hoc tribunal
for civil aviation disputes. The Secretariat, headed by the Secretary-General, consists of five main departments
for air navigation, air transport, legal affairs, technical cooperation and administrative matters. The ICAO headquarters
is located in Montreal.
Documentation
Convention on International Civil Aviation.
The ICAO official web site provides background information, an overview of the objectives, statistical data, full text reports and documents, conventions on civil aviation and related acts.
The ICAO journal is posted at the ICAO official web from 1981 onwards.
Excerpts of the Annual Reports of the Council are posted online from 1995 onwards.
A summary of the work of the International Civil Aviation Organization for a given year with references to essential documents can be accessed through the Yearbook of the United Nations, Part Six: Intergovernmental Organizations to the United Nations. A complete collection of yearbooks and a CD-ROM is held by the Dag Hammarskjöld Library, Uppsala, and the Libraries at UN Headquarters in New York and Geneva.
Since October 2008 the complete full text collection of The United Nations Yearbooks is available online at http://unyearbook.un.org/.
Databases and Indexes
The ICAO official web site contains several relevant databases. Freely accessible are:
- Aviation Training Directory of ICAO, a list of over 500 institutions worldwide covering all fields of civil aviation training.
- ICAO - Aircraft Type Designators, a database for those aircraft types which are most commonly provided with air traffic services.