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7-470: The ministry sets civil aviation regulations, sets airworthiness and all flight rules, and air standards that must be met, making amendments, as needed. It ensures Egyptian airline and flight operations follow safety rules such as those put forth by International Aviation - European Common Aviation Area (ECAA). One of the ministry's most important duties is to conduct investigations of airplane crashes and to provide progress reports on such investigations. Then

14-745: The Common Aviation Area have been offered to the EU's Eastern Partnership members. Agreements currently in force, include: Moreover, a system of association agreements with the ECAA has been enacted for the Mediterranean partnership countries. Because the UK has left the European Union ( Brexit ), the UK is no longer part of the Common Aviation Area. Unless permission or new treaties with

21-545: The Ministry of Transport and Communications. The Ministry of Civil Aviation is headquartered in Cairo . The Egyptian Civil Aviation Authority (ECAA, Arabic : الهيئة المصرية العامة للطيران المدنى ), subordinate to the ministry, is the civil aviation authority of Egypt. In early 2018, the Ministry of Civil Aviation, the Ministry of Tourism and other interested stakeholders discussed the roadblocks that ought to be addressed if

28-519: The UK are made, aviation to and from the UK may stop . There was a delay in this hard Brexit until the end of 2020, because the Brexit withdrawal agreement states that most EU rules continue to be valid for the UK during 2020. However, EU has approved regulations 2019/494 and 2019/505 in order to secure air traffic between UK and EU plus EEA. Also, the British government has taken various steps to ensure

35-708: The air transport industry by allowing any company from any ECAA member state to fly between any ECAA member states airports, thereby allowing a "foreign" airline to provide domestic flights. On 9 June 2006, the ECAA agreement was signed by almost all of the 27 EU members , the European Union itself, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Iceland, Montenegro, North Macedonia , Norway, Serbia as well as Kosovo ( UNMIK as Kosovo representative under Security Council resolution 1244 ). The last two EU member states to sign it were Slovakia and Latvia respectively on 13 June 2006 and 22 June 2006. Further agreements to join

42-574: The country is to develop the tourism sector near Taba, Egypt , where there is a small airport. European Common Aviation Area The European Common Aviation Area ( ECAA ) is a single market in aviation services . ECAA agreements were signed on 5 May 2006 in Salzburg , Austria between the EU and some external countries. It built upon the EU's acquis communautaire and the European Economic Area . The ECAA liberalises

49-440: The ministry negotiates the resumption of flights from the country that suffered the airline crash to or from Egypt. The ministry is supposed to manage the fair competition between state-run airlines such as EgyptAir and private airlines, of which there are 14 but private airlines complain that EgyptAir has monopolized the industry. The ministry was established in 2002 by separating out the responsibilities for civil aviation from

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