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SAATM Capacity Building Workshop

The African Union Commission (AUC), in collaboration with the African Civil Aviation Commission (AFCAC) and the African Airlines Association (AFRAA), is organizing a Capacity Building Workshop on dissemination of the Yamoussoukro Decision Regulatory texts dedicated to African Airlines.

The Workshop, which will be in virtual format on Zoom platform and hosted by AFRAA Secretariat from 29th to 30th September 2021, is in response to the Decision establishing the Single African Air Transport Market (SAATM), a critical AU Agenda 2063 flagship project [Assembly/AU/Dec.665 (XXX)]. The Decision requests the AUC to undertake Capacity Building of Member States, RECs, and other key aviation stakeholders on the application of Yamoussoukro Decision (YD) institutional and regulatory Texts.

The YD instruments which also constitute the regulatory framework of the SAATM, are: (i) Powers and Functions of the Executing Agency (EA), (ii) Competition Regulations, (iii) Consumer protection Regulations, and (iv) Dispute Settlement Mechanism, which is currently at advanced stage of elaboration. The workshop is open to all African Airlines including those which are not yet members of AFRAA in order to ensure wider dissemination on YD regulatory texts and the benefits of the Single African Air Transport Market (SAATM).