THE ROLE OF ICAO IN REGULATING AERIAL NAVIGATION
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The International Civil Aviation is special agency of United Nations which focuses on regulating air navigation by securing civil aviation, by providing safety, legal regulations, operating procedures, technical standards and ensuring efficiency. This research paper focuses on the role of ICAO in regulating air navigation. The paper further focuses on the background and developments of ICAO in the area of aerial navigation. Also, it aims to deal with the statute which led to the establishment of ICAO, i.e., Convention on International Civil Aviation in detail. The relationship between ICAO and United Nations for the peaceful working and cooperation has been discussed. Aerial navigation aims at covering wide range of activities such as personnel licensing, units of measurement, rules of air, meteorological services, operation of aircraft, aeronautical charts, air worthiness of aircraft, air traffic services, rescue and search, efficiency, safety, security, environmental control, aeronautical information services and etc. All these activities require International Standard Recommended Practices for the smooth functioning and development of aerial navigation by framing laws and policies to deal with the challenges and issues. The paper discusses about the ISRP and its importance in regulating aerial navigation. Also, the framework of ICAO which includes Assembly, Council, Air Navigation Commission, Secretariat and various Committees which comes under purview of ICAO have been discussed in this paper. The paper mainly deals with the major role and importance of ICAO in regulating or maintaining air navigation, The primary role International Civil Aviation Organisation is to ensure the security, improve safety measures, increase capacity and to enhance the efficiency by regulating all the affairs related to civil aviation, this also includes the development of infrastructure, operation and construction of airport., looking after aeronautical charts, traffic management, framing of policies, rues and regulation for regulating aerial navigation, check on obstruction lightning, to give certification for personnel and its aircraft, all the affairs related to rescue and search and etc. Also, paper concludes with the issues and challenges faced by the ICAO and further focuses on the necessary measures to curb such challenges. A few keywords in this paper can be seen as ‘aerial navigation’, ‘ISRP’, ‘ICAO’.
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