SPECIAL ICAO WORKSHOP ON LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY FOR THE STATES FROM THE EASTERN PART OF THE ICAO EUR REGION (Baku, Azerbaijan, 7-9 December 2005) COG/ATM/TNG/TF

DRAFT ACTION PLAN : COG/ATM/TNG/TF/2 – Paris (Working draft action plan) COG/ATM/TNG/TF/3 – Kyiv (Draft action plan, version 1) COG/ATM/TNG/TF/4 – Paris (Draft action plan, version 2) COG/ATM/TNG/TF

COG ACTIVITY COG CONCLUSION 32/1 - ICAO LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY REQUIREMENTS a) That, the action plan, included as Appendix C to the COG/32 Report, be recommended to States as guidance material for the implementation of ICAO language proficiency requirements.      b)  That the ICAORD request States in a position to do so, to provide details of any available recourses, in order to produce a catalogue to assist States that will need to make use of external resources in meeting the new language requirements. COG/ATM/TNG/TF

EANPG OPINION: EANPG CONCLUSION 47/43 - IMPLEMENTATION OF THE ICAO LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY REQUIREMENTS That: States: use the Action Plan as guidance material for the implementation of the ICAO language proficiency requirements and regularly report the progress to the EANPG; and ii) take all appropriate actions to achieve the timely implementation of the ICAO language proficiency requirements; b) ICAO: i) regularly review and update the Action Plan, if and when required; and ii) continue to provide assistance to States in implementing the ICAO language proficiency requirements. COG/ATM/TNG/TF

ACTION PLAN: Phase 1 covers the period up to 5 March 2008 and deals with actions required to reach Level 4 proficiency Phase 2 after 5 March 2008, proposes actions for the maintenance of Level 4 proficiency or higher COG/ATM/TNG/TF

PHASE 1 – KEY POINTS nomination of contact person(s) awareness nomination of contact person(s) coordination of administrative and training matters assessment of current language proficiency level development of language training packages financial implications COG/ATM/TNG/TF

PHASE 1 – KEY POINTS (CONTINUATION) social issues development/selection of final test(s) raters’ selection and training maintaining of achieved language proficiency prerequisite English requirements for ab initio ATC and pilot training preliminary reports to ICAO on progress achieved COG/ATM/TNG/TF

language proficiency maintenance programmes PHASE 2 – KEY POINTS testing of pilots and controllers language proficiency maintenance programmes retesting and retraining programmes final report to ICAO on implementation COG/ATM/TNG/TF

ACTION PLAN (next versions) revision and detailing of some key issues COG/ATM/TNG/TF COG EANPG COG/ATM/TNG/TF

HAVE YOU BEEN WORKING HARD 817 DAYS ARE LEFT BEFORE MARCH 2008. HAVE YOU BEEN WORKING HARD ON YOUR ENGLISH? COG/ATM/TNG/TF