ECOWAS to harmonise national air transport regulations – Project director

Dr. Paul-Antoine Ganemtore, the Project Director of the ECOWAS Air Transport Unit, says the community has the capacity to harmonise national regulations in one year in order to ease flight operations within the region. Ganemtore made this known in Abuja. He said that the ECOWAS Transport Ministers approved the draft documents in September. 2010. “The transport ministers of the ECOWAS agreed and recommend that the draft text needs to be adopted because it is something good for our region. Probably before the end of the year, we would go to the ECOWAS Parliament in order to get approval and later to go to the level of council of ministers and the authority of heads of state to get a final approval.
We hope that in less than one year we can introduce a new way of operation.” He said ECOWAS would continue to sensitise air transport stakeholders to keep them abreast of developments relating to the harmonization of the national regulations. “Stakeholders in the air transport need to be informed before we go further; it is not a one day thing. To implement we need to understand, so there will be continuous refreshing and enlightenment.”