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Regional aviation safety organisations: enhancing air transport safety through regional cooperation
Aviation safety is of global concern. Yet 43% of countries worldwide
lack the expertise and administrative capacity to ensure effective
safety oversight of the aviation activities for which they are
responsible under international law. With air traffic predicted to
double in the next 15 years and increasing pressure on public
administrations budgets, countries are increasingly pooling their
resources to improve aviation safety. One of the ways States can achieve
regulatory efficiencies and increase safety of air transport is by
establishing Regional Aviation Safety Organisations (RASOs). RASOs
develop proposals for safety legislation, train safety inspectors, and
even investigate aviation accidents or certify aircraft and airlines.
Despite the rapid development of RASOs over the last twelve years, there
has been surprisingly little legal research on this new phenomenon. In
this doctoral dissertation Mikołaj Ratajczyk conducts comparative case
studies of RASOs and analyses their place in the international legal
framework for aviation safety. He concludes that while the majority of
present RASOs have advisory and support functions only, there is a clear
trend for such organisations to evolve into bodies with regulatory
powers which in the future could collaborate with the International
Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) to form a Global Aviation Safety
Oversight Network (GASON). Such a development, the author concludes,
would enable a more uniform and effective implementation of the
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