Since 1992, the Department has pursued an ”open skies” policy aimed at eliminating government involvement in airline decision-making regarding routes, capacity and prices in international markets. The Open Skies agreements also include provisions on trade opportunities, security and protection. The United States has negotiated open skies agreements with more than 100 aviation partners. The Bureau of International Aviation and the U.S. Department of State negotiate bilateral and multilateral air transport agreements with U.S. foreign aviation partners. These agreements provide the basis on which airlines of participating countries can provide international air transport services for passengers, cargo and mail. Through air transport agreements, the United States is developing a competitive operating environment for U.S. air services between the United States and abroad. For more information on specific flight service contracts, please contact us. Bilateral agreements facilitate the mutual certificate of airworthiness for civil aviation products imported/exported between two signatory States. A bilateral airworthiness agreement (BAA) or a bilateral aviation safety agreement (BASA) with airworthiness implementation procedures (APIs) provides for technical cooperation between the FAA and its opposing civil aviation authorities. Work procedures are a type of agreement with a foreign CAA with which the FAA has not entered into a bilateral agreement.

They are used to define the methods by which the FAA`s Aircraft Certification Service can assist another state in approving aeronautical products and articles exported from the United States to that state. In most cases, air services are excluded from U.S. trade agreements. When air services are included, their coverage is very limited. In these cases, the Bureau of International Aviation works with the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative and the Department of State to ensure that these regulations are consistent with U.S. aviation policy. In the General Agreement on Tariffs for Services (GATS), the Air Transport Annex expressly limits the coverage of air services to aircraft repair and maintenance, computerized reservation systems, and the sale and marketing of air transport. Under our bilateral and multilateral free trade agreements (FTAs), aviation service coverage is limited to aircraft repair and maintenance as well as specialized air services. For more information, please contact us. In addition to the certificate of airworthiness, bilateral aviation safety agreements provide for bilateral cooperation in various areas of aviation, including maintenance, flight operations and environmental certification. For aircraft certification, an additional document, an airworthiness implementation procedure, is developed to cover specific areas such as design approvals, production activities, export airworthiness approval, post-design approval activities and technical cooperation.

Bilateral airworthiness agreements are executive treaties concluded prior to 1996 through an exchange of diplomatic notes between the U.S. State Department and its foreign counterpart based on faa technical recommendations. (Note: The United States no longer enters into bilateral airworthiness agreements.) The 1. In May 2001, the United States and Brunei, Chile, New Zealand and Singapore signed a multilateral open skies agreement, the Multilateral Agreement on the Liberalization of International Air Transport (MALIAT). The department continues to challenge our aviation partners to join MALIAT to realize Open Skies with several partners. The Implementation Procedure Schedule (SIP) is the procedure document, similar to an API, associated with certain BAAs. It facilitates the certification process for aircraft and other aeronautical products imported or exported between the United States and another country. Management plans are working documents that prescribe detailed methods for carrying out a technical process derived from an activity specified in a BA or arrangement.

Management plans define the roles and responsibilities necessary to coordinate the activities specified in the AB or in a specific agreement. The content and duration of a management plan are determined by the extension of the requirement and are related to the BA or the arrangement function it supports. Because it is important to consider the needs of each organization and how the FAA will record and document updates, management plans should include a section that addresses revisions. Management plans are mutually agreed between the FAA and CAA. Airworthiness Implementation Procedures (APIs) are procedural documents authorized by the BASA Executive Agreement for design approval, production activities, export airworthiness permits, post-design approval activities and technical support between authorities. This document defines the scope of civil aviation products and parts that may be imported into the United States and the corresponding BASA signatory country. It also establishes requirements and procedures for the interface between authorities for the validation, import and subsequent support of such civil aviation products and articles. Special import requirements are a document submitted to the FAA by the CAA of the state or jurisdiction of importation that contains import requirements. These documents are listed in Annex 2 of CA 21-2. Technical implementation procedures (TIP) have the same purpose as a DPI. The difference is that an API contains the procedures for implementing a BASA between the United States.

and another sovereign state, the TIP, contains the procedures for implementing the agreement between the United States and the European Union (EU), which represents many sovereign states. Since the EU does not have the power to manage all the procedures contained in an IPA, the TIP includes additional procedures detailing where sovereign states represented in the EU retain only limited liability. .