Civil Aviation Authority of the Republic of Poland Update on the national implementation practices Saint Petersburg 2011

Current issues related to Language Proficiency Requirements All ATCO’s and Pilots tested • License endorsement process completed by end of May 2011 • Examiner and rater re-acreditation process completed • National Administrators re-acreditaion process completed • Separation of initial and recurrent testing initiative • Amendments of National Regulations concerning Licensing in progress

ICAO LPR compliance after March 5, 2011 ATCO’s – ELPAC test • All ATCO’s tested • 94% received Level 4 or 5 • Remaining – do not work as ATCO’s PILOTS – RELTA test / foreign tests • All pilots involved in international operations tested • 96% recived Level 4, 5 or 6 • Remaining – do not operate internationally

ICAO LPR compliance after March 5, 2011 Number of exams – above 200 Number of license endorsements – above 400 (including tests taken outside Poland) since January 2011 until end of March 2011

End-users perspective ATCO’s – ELPAC test • No complaints (keyboard issue) PILOTS – RELTA test • Too difficult – another option (commercial test adopted in Poland) • Test scenarios vs. real life situations

Co-operation of States LP tests taken outside Poland Co-operation of CAA’s to ensure validity of LP test certificates Poland is currently co-operating with a number of foreign Civil Aviation Authorities to ensure ICAO LPR compliance: Belgium, Czech Republic, Germany, Lithuania, Romania, Slovak Republic, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, Vietnam. – Thank you for your support and proffessionalism!

Difficulties Acceptance of non EU endorsements „Level 4 is Level 4” – quality / equality of different LP tests Inconsistent legal regulations Discontent of aviation industry

Thank you for your attention!