ICAO EUROCONTROL EUROPEAN SEMINAR ON LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY FOR

ICAO - EUROCONTROL EUROPEAN SEMINAR ON LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY FOR AERONAUTICAL COMMUNICATIONS (Brussels, Belgium, 27 -28 October 2005) COG/ATM/TNG/TF

COG ACTIVITY COG CONCLUSION 32/1 - ICAO LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY REQUIREMENTS the COG/32 a) That, the action plan, included as Appendix C to material for the Report, be recommended to States as guidance cy requirements. implementation of ICAO language proficien so, to provide b) That the ICAORD request States in a position to do roduce a catalogue to details of any available recourses, in order to p xternal resources in assist States that will need to make use of e s. meeting the new language requirement 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 • awareness • nomination of contact point(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

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 (version 2) • revision and detailing of some key issues COG/ATM/TNG/TF EANPG

857 DAYS ARE LEFT BEFORE 5 MARCH 2008. HAVE YOU BEEN WORKING HARD ON YOUR ENGLISH? COG/ATM/TNG/TF