Publication: Magyar Közlöny
Issue: MK-2009-104 (Year: 2009, Number: 104)
Era: 2004-2010
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Paragraph Index: 1617

(2005). 8.15 The pilot-in-command of an aircraft shall ensure that a suspected communicable disease is reported promptly to air traffic control, in order to facilitate provision for the presence of any special medical personnel and equipment necessary for the management of public health risks on arrival. Note 1.— A communicable disease could be suspected and require further evaluation if a person has a fever (temperature 38°C/100°F or greater) that is associated with certain signs or symptoms: e.g. appearing obviously unwell; persistent coughing; impaired breathing; persistent diarrhoea; persistent vomiting; skin rash; bruising or bleeding without previous injury; or, confusion of recent onset. Note 2.— In the event of a case of suspected communicable disease on board an aircraft, the pilot-in-command may need to follow his operator’s protocols and procedures, in addition to health-related legal requirements of the countries of departure and/or destination. The latter would normally be found in the Aeronautical Information Publications (AIPs) of the States concerned. 8.15.1 Recommended Practice.— When a public health threat has been identified, and when the public health authorities of a Contracting State require information concerning passengers’ and/or crews’ travel itineraries or contact information for the purposes of tracing persons who may have been exposed to a communicable disease, that Contracting State should accept the “Public Health Passenger Locator Card” reproduced in Appendix 13 as the sole document for this purpose. Note.— It is suggested that States make available adequate stocks of the Passenger Locator Card, for use at their international airports and for distribution to aircraft operators, for completion by passengers and crew. F. Communicable disease outbreak national aviation plan 8.16 A Contracting State shall establish a national aviation plan in preparation for an outbreak of a communicable disease posing a public health risk or public health emergency of international concern. 15/7/07 No. 20 Chapter 8 Annex 9 — Facilitation 8-3 24/11/05 Note.— Guidance in developing a national aviation plan may be found on the ICAO website on the Aviation Medicine page. G. Establishment of national facilitation programmes 8.17 Each Contracting State shall establish a national air transport facilitation programme based on the facilitation requirements of the Convention and of Annex 9 thereto. 8.18 Each Contracting State shall ensure that the objective of its national air transport facilitation programme shall be to adopt all practicable measures to facilitate the movement of aircraft, crews, passengers, cargo, mail and stores, by removing unnecessary obstacles and delays. 8.18.1 Recommended Practice.— In establishing a national air transport facilitation programme, States should use the guidance material outlined in Appendix 12. 8.19 Each Contracting State shall establish a National Air Transport Facilitation Committee, and Airport Facilitation Committees as required, or similar coordinating bodies, for the purpose of coordinating facilitation activities between departments, agencies, and other organizations of the State concerned with, or responsible for, various aspects of international civil aviation as well as with airport and aircraft operators. 8.20 Recommended Practice.— Contracting States should endeavour to establish close coordination, adapted to circumstances, between civil aviation security and facilitation programmes. To this end, certain members of Facilitation Committees should also be members of Security Committees. 8.21 Recommended Practice.— In establishing and operating National Air Transport and Airport Facilitation Committees, States should use the guidance material outlined in Appendices 11 and 12. H. Facilitation of the transport of passengers requiring special assistance I. General 8.22 Recommended Practice.— When travelling, persons with disabilities should be provided with special assistance in order to ensure that they receive services customarily available to the general public. Such assistance includes the offering of information and directions in media that can be understood by travellers with cognitive or sensory disabilities. 8.23 Recommended Practice.— Contracting States should cooperate with a view to taking the necessary measures to make accessible to persons with disabilities all the elements of the chain of the person’s journey, from beginning to end. 8.24 Recommended Practice.— Contracting States should take the necessary steps with aircraft operators, airports and ground handling operators to establish minimum uniform standards of accessibility with respect to transportation services for persons with disabilities, from arrival at the airport of departure to leaving the airport of destination. 8.25 Recommended Practice.— Contracting States should take the necessary steps with aircraft operators, airports, ground handling operators and travel agencies to ensure that persons with disabilities are given the information they need, and should take the necessary steps to ensure that airlines, airports, ground handling operators and travel agencies are in a position to give those passengers the assistance necessary for them, depending on their needs, to help them in their travel. 8.26 Recommended Practice.— Contracting States should take all necessary steps to secure the cooperation of aircraft operators, airports and ground handling operators in order to establish and coordinate training programmes to ensure that trained personnel are available to assist persons with disabilities. II. Access to airports 8.27 Contracting States shall take the necessary steps to ensure that airport facilities and services are adapted to the needs of persons with disabilities. 8.28 Recommended Practice.— Contracting States should ensure that lifting systems or any other appropriate devices are made available in order to facilitate the movement of elderly and disabled passengers between the aircraft and the terminal on both arrival and departure as required where telescopic passageways are not used. 8.29 Recommended Practice.— Measures should be taken to ensure that the hearing- and vision-impaired are able to obtain flight information. 8.30 Recommended Practice.— For elderly and disabled persons being set down or picked up at a terminal building, reserved points should be located as close as possible to main entrances. To facilitate movement to the various areas of the airport, access routes should be free of obstacles. 8.31 Recommended Practice.— Where access to public services is limited, every effort should be made to provide accessible and reasonably priced ground transportation services by adapting current and planned public transit systems or by providing special transport services for people with mobility needs. 15/7/07 No. 20 Annex 9 — Facilitation Chapter 8 24/11/05 8-4 8.32 Recommended Practice.— Adequate parking facilities should be provided for people with mobility needs and appropriate measures taken to facilitate their movement between parking areas and the terminal buildings. 8.33 Recommended Practice.— Direct transfer from one aircraft to another of passengers, particularly elderly and disabled passengers, should be authorized, where necessary and possible, whenever this is warranted by deadlines in making connecting flights or by other circumstances. III. Access to air services 8.34 Contracting States shall take the necessary steps to ensure that persons with disabilities have adequate access to air services. 8.35 Recommended Practice.— Contracting States should introduce provisions by which aircraft coming newly into service or after major refurbishment should conform to minimum uniform standards of accessibility with respect to equipment on board aircraft which would include movable armrests, on-board wheelchairs, lavatories and suitable lighting and signs. 8.36 Recommended Practice.— Wheelchairs, special apparatus and equipment required by persons with disabilities should be carried free of charge in the cabin where, in the view of the aircraft operator, space and safety requirements permit or should be designated as priority baggage. Service animals accompanying passengers with disabilities should also be carried free of charge in the cabin, subject to the application of any relevant national or aircraft operator regulations. 8.37 Recommended Practice.— In principle, persons with disabilities should be permitted to determine whether or not they need an escort and to travel without the requirement for a medical clearance. However, advance notice should be mandatory where assistance or lifting is required. Aircraft operators should only be permitted to require passengers with disabilities to obtain a medical clearance in cases of medical condition where it is clear that their safety or well-being or that of other passengers cannot be guaranteed. Furthermore, aircraft operators should only be permitted to require an escort when it is clear that a person with disabilities is not self-reliant and, as such, the safety or well-being of that person or that of another passenger cannot be guaranteed. 8.38 Recommended Practice.— If the presence of an escort is required, Contracting States should encourage aircraft operators to offer discounts for the carriage of that accompanying person. I. Assistance to aircraft accident victims and their families 8.39 The State of Occurrence of an aircraft accident and adjacent States shall make arrangements to facilitate the entry into their territory on a temporary basis of family members of victims of an aircraft accident. 8.40 The State of Occurrence and adjacent States shall also make arrangements to facilitate the entry into their territory, on a temporary basis, of authorized representatives of the operator whose aircraft has met with the accident, or of the operator’s alliance partner, in order to enable them to provide assistance to survivors and their family members, the family members of the deceased victims of the accident and the relevant authorities in these States. Note.— Code-sharing and similar alliance agreements sometimes require alliance partners to act as “first responder” on behalf of an affected operator in case the alliance partner can get to the location of the accident quicker than the affected operator. 8.41 Recommended Practice.— In arranging for the entry of the persons referred to in 8.39, the State of Occurrence and adjacent States should not require any other travel document than a passport, or an emergency travel document issued specifically to such persons, to enable them to travel to these States. In cases where the State of Occurrence of the accident or an adjacent State requires entrance visas for persons referred to in 8.39 and 8.40 above, it should expedite the issuance of such visas. 8.42 Contracting States shall make arrangements to issue emergency travel documents, if required, to their nationals who have survived the accident. 8.43 Contracting States shall extend all necessary assistance, such as arranging transport and clearing customs, in the repatriation of human remains to their countries of origin, on request by family members of the deceased or the operator whose aircraft met with the accident. 15/7/07 No. 20 ANNEX 9 APP 1-1 24/11/05 APPENDIX 1. GENERAL DECLARATION GENERAL DECLARATION (Outward/Inward) (Place) (Place) FLIGHT ROUTING (“Place” Column always to list origin, every en-route stop and destination) PLACE NAMES OF CREW* NUMBER OF PASSENGERS ON THIS STAGE** Departure Place: Arrival Place: Declaration of Health Name and seat number or function of persons on board with illnesses other than airsickness or the effects of accidents, who may be suffering from a communicable disease (a fever — temperature 38°C/100°F or greater — associated with one or more of the following signs or symptoms, e.g. appearing obviously unwell; persistent coughing; impaired breathing; persistent diarrhoea; persistent vomiting; skin rash; bruising or bleeding without previous injury; or confusion of recent onset, increases the likelihood that the person is suffering a communicable disease) as well as such cases of Details of each disinsecting or sanitary treatment (place, date, time, method) during the flight. If no disinsecting has been carried out during the flight, give details Signed, if required, with time and date ______________________________________ Crew member concerned For official use only I declare that all statements and particulars contained in this General Declaration, and in any supplementary forms required to be presented with this General Declaration, are complete, exact and true to the best of my knowledge and that all through passengers will continue/have continued on the flight. SIGNATURE __________________________________________ Authorized Agent or Pilot-in-command Size of document to be 210 mm × 297 mm (or 8 1/4 × 11 3/4 inches). ** To be completed when required by the State. ** Not to be completed when passenger manifests are presented and to be completed only when required by the State. 297 mm (or 11 3/4 inches) 210 mm (or 8 1/4 inches) 15/7/07 No. 20 ANNEX 9 APP 11-1 24/11/05 APPENDIX 11. MODEL AIRPORT FACILITATION (FAL) PROGRAMME 1. PURPOSE OF AN AIRPORT FAL PROGRAMME The purpose of an airport FAL programme is to pursue the objectives of Annex 9 at the operational level, to facilitate the completion of border clearance formalities at the airport with respect to aircraft, crews, passengers and cargo. 2. SCOPE OF AN AIRPORT FAL PROGRAMME The airport FAL programme encompasses all of the provisions of Annex 9 concerning border clearance processes at the airport, as well as the planning for and management of those processes. A representative list of tasks to be performed and the Standard(s) or Recommended Practice(s) (SARPs) applicable to each one are provided in the table below. 3. ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT 3.1 The recommended vehicle to conduct the facilitation programme at the operational level is the Airport Facilitation Committee. Although such committees should be encouraged by the National FAL Committee and keep it informed of their problems and progress, they are not necessarily supervised by the national body. Their principal concern is day-to-day problem-solving and implementation of Annex 9. 3.2 It is recommended that the airport manager take charge of the committee and convene regular meetings. Membership should consist of the senior officers in charge of their respective inspection agencies at the airport, e.g. customs, immigration, health, quarantine, etc., as well as the station managers of the aircraft operators with international operations at the airport concerned. The participation of all parties is necessary to make the airport FAL programme a success. Airport FAL programme task Annex 9 (12th Edition) SARPs Establish, review and amend, as necessary, procedures for entry and clearance of flights at the airport concerned. Standards 6.1.1, 8.16 Review regularly all parties’ performance with respect to meeting the 45-minute goal for processing inbound passengers and the 60-minute goal for processing outbound passengers. Use time studies and queue analysis to determine where adjustments should be made. Recommended Practices 3.36 and 3.39 Establish modern systems for immigration and customs inspection, using applicable technology. Collaborate in setting up automated passenger clearance systems. Standards 3.40, 3.51 and 6.26 Make necessary changes in traffic flows and checkpoints in the airport to cope with rising traffic volumes. Standard 6.3 Improve the quality and quantity of signage in the inspection facilities in order to reduce customer confusion. Recommended Practices 6.9 and 6.12.1 Review staffing of inspection stations – work shifts, overtime, etc. – and seek adjustments to meet traffic demands. Recommended Practice 6.3.1 Provide input on behalf of resident aircraft operators and inspection agencies to the design of new airports or new inspection facilities. Standards 6.2, 6.7 and 6.57 Monitor and improve delivery of baggage to the customs inspection area. Standard 6.28 Bring to the attention of appropriate authorities any service problems related to currency exchange. Recommend installation of ATMs in the arrivals area. Standards 6.63, 6.64 and 6.65 Coordinate facilitation, narcotics control, aviation security and dangerous goods handling procedures so that the objectives of all four programmes are met. Standard 8.19 Do not forget cargo! Coordinate the activities and requirements of the various inspection agencies in order to assure prompt clearance and delivery of air cargo shipments. Provide adequate facilities for loading/unloading and for secure storage of cargo while awaiting customs clearance. Standard 4.25; Recommended Practices 4.28 and 4.29 and 6.38 to 6.50 incl. Set up and maintain electronic systems for cargo manifesting, customs clearance, and delivery. Standards 4.15 and 4.4 15/7/07 No. 20 Annex 9 — Facilitation Appendix 12 24/11/05 APP 12-2 Chicago Convention mandate Implementing tasks Article 10 – Landing at customs airport ... every aircraft which enters the territory of a contracting State shall, if the regulations of that State so require, land at an airport designated by that State for the purpose of customs and other examination. On departure from the territory of a contracting State, such aircraft shall — Establish customs airports and open new ones as appropriate. — Develop procedures by which operators of scheduled and non-scheduled services may request permission to land or depart from customs airports. — Arrange for border inspection services at customs airports. Article 13 – Entry and clearance regulations The laws and regulations of a contracting State as to the admission to or departure from its territory of passengers, crew or cargo of aircraft, such as regulations relating to entry, clearance, immigration, passports, customs, and quarantine shall be complied with by or on behalf of such passengers, crew or cargo upon entrance into or departure from, or while within the territory of that State. — Support the interested border control agencies in the establishment and maintenance of effective inspection systems at airports, and in their efforts to rationalize their respective procedures. — Develop programmes for control of security problems such as document fraud, illegal migration and smuggling. — Coordinate preparations for clearing large numbers of international visitors for special events, e.g. international athletics competitions. Article 14 – Prevention of spread of disease Each contracting State agrees to take effective measures to prevent the spread by means of air navigation of cholera, typhus (epidemic), smallpox, yellow fever, plague, and such other communicable diseases as the contracting States shall from time to time decide to designate, ... — Establish, review and amend as necessary the national policies regarding prevention of the spread of contagious diseases by air, for example, aircraft disinsection, disinfection, public health-related quarantine programmes, and screening measures to be applied in a health emergency. Article 22 – Facilitation of formalities Each contracting State agrees to adopt all practicable measures, through the issuance of special regulations or otherwise, to facilitate and expedite navigation by aircraft between the territories of contracting States, and to prevent unnecessary delays to aircraft, crews, passengers and cargo, especially in the administration of the laws relating to immigration, quarantine, customs and clearance. — Establish, review and amend as necessary the national regulations which implement the State’s customs, immigration and quarantine laws pertaining to international movements by air. Article 23 – Customs and immigration procedures Each contracting States undertakes, so far as it may find practicable, to establish customs and immigration procedures affecting international air navigation in accordance with the practices which may be established or recommended from time to time, pursuant to — Establish and amend as appropriate, customs and immigration procedures carried out at airports, to harmonize them with the standards and recommended practices set forth in Annex 9. — Support and advocate the national issuance of passports and other travel documents in accordance with ICAO specifications in Doc 9303 – Machine Readable Travel Documents. Article 37 – Adoption of international standards and procedures Each contracting State undertakes to collaborate in securing the highest practicable degree of uniformity in regulations, standards, procedures, and organization in relation to aircraft, personnel, airways and auxiliary services in all matters in which such uniformity will facilitate and improve air navigation. ... (j) Customs and immigration procedures ... — Participate in ICAO development of Annex 9. — Review national procedures periodically in order to ensure harmonization with the provisions of Annex 9. Article 38 – Departures from international standards and procedures Any State which finds it impracticable to comply in all respects with any such international standard or procedure, or to bring its own regulations or practices into full accord with any international standard or procedure after amendment of the latter, or which deems it necessary to adopt regulations or practices differing in any particular respect from those established by an international standard, shall give immediate notification to the International Civil Aviation Organization of the differences between its own practice and that established in the — Periodically review conformity by all relevant agencies with the provisions of Annex 9 and notify ICAO of differences between national practices and the relevant standards. 15/7/07 No. 20 ANNEX 9 APP 13-1 24/11/05 APPENDIX 13. PUBLIC HEALTH PASSENGER LOCATOR CARD — END — Flight Information

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