Interstate Aviation Committee

Interstate Aviation Committee

Межгосударственный авиационный комитет
Agency overview
Formed	1991
Preceding agency	Gosavianadzor USSR
Jurisdiction	Russia limited authority in other  CIS countries
Headquarters	Moscow, Russia
Agency executive	Tatyana Anodina, Director
Website	mak-iac.org/en/

IAC/MAK head office

The Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC; Russian: Межгосударственный авиационный комитет, МАК) is a supervising body overseeing the use and management of civil aviation in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). The IAC is the official civil aviation authority in Russia while some other countries recognize it as a certification and expert body to a varying extent. The US counterpart would be NTSB.

The Interstate Aviation Committee was formed in 1991^[1] according to the Civil Aviation and Airspace Use Treaty, signed on December 25, 1991.^[2]

The "Air Accident Investigation Commission" of the IAC regularly works with the Federal Air Transport Agency in investigations of aviation accidents and incidents.^[3]

The committee is headquartered in Yakimanka District, Central Administrative Okrug, Moscow, Russia.^[1] Since 1991, Tatiana Anodina has been the director of the Committee.

Governance

Since 1991, Tatiana Anodina has been the director of the Committee. Her son's family owned and controlled Transaero, one of Russia's largest airlines.^[4][5] There was press speculation regarding Anodina's conflict of interest in certifying aircraft with respect to Transaero's market position.^[6][7]

Countries participating in the Treaty

Current

As of November 2013, the following countries are named by the IAC^[8] as the Treaty participants:

• Azerbaijan
• Armenia
  • General Department of Civil Aviation of Armenia is the national civil aviation regulator of Armenia
• Belarus
• Kazakhstan
• Kyrgyzstan
• Moldova
  • In 1999 Government of Moldova announced its intention to reduce or end participation in the Civil Aviation and Airspace Use Treaty.^[9] The IAC's official web site still names the country among Treaty members.
• Russia
• Tajikistan
• Turkmenistan
• Ukraine
  • Ukraine has its own independent civil aviation regulator and accidents investigation agencies, but cooperates with the IAC over limited scope of certification-related issues.^[10][11]
• Uzbekistan

Former

• Georgia^[1]
  • Despite the fact that Georgia withdrew from the Commonwealth of Independent States, as of 2011 Georgian authorities may still cooperate with the IAC.^[12]

The following countries of the former Soviet Union formerly possessed observer status:

• Estonia^[13]
• Latvia^[13]

History

In the Soviet Union, the State Supervisory Commission for Flight Safety (Gosavianadzor), under the Council of Ministers,^[14] was the predecessor of the IAC.^[15] The Gosavianadzor conducted aircraft accident and incident investigations.^[14] The IAC was established in 1991, when 12 states of the former Soviet Union signed the Civil Aviation and Airspace Use Treaty,^[16] in Minsk on 25 December 1991.

The most public and controversial of the IAC's recent activities was the investigation of the 2010 plane crash that killed Polish president Lech Kaczyński.^[17][18]

See also

• Federal Service for Supervision of Transport
• Flight Safety Service of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation

References

1. "Main." (Archive) Interstate Aviation Committee. Retrieved on 24 June 2010. Member list: "By present time the participants of the Agreement are republics Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russian Federation, Tadjikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Ukraine." Address: "119017, Moscow, Russia Bolshaya Ordynka str. 22/2/1" Russian home page (Archive): Address: "119017, Москва, Россия ул.Большая Ордынка, 22/2/1" Member list: "Участниками Соглашения к настоящему времени являются Азербайджанская Республика, Республика Армения, Республика Беларусь, Грузия, Республика Казахстан, Кыргызская Республика, Республика Молдова, Российская Федерация, Республика Таджикистан, Туркменистан, Республика Узбекистан и Украина."
2. Соглашение о гражданской авиации и об использовании воздушного пространства (Russian)
3. "Crash: Aeroflot-Nord B735 at Perm on Sep 14th 2008, impacted ground while on approach to Perm".
4. Kuznetsova, Elizaveta (Елизавета Кузнецова). ""Аэрофлот" не прошел регистрацию на рейс (Russian)." Kommersant. No. 18 (5049). 1 February 2013. Retrieved on 19 April 2013. "Участники отрасли и эксперты полагают, что проблемы возникли из-за нерасторопности комитета, который возглавляет Татьяна Анодина — мать Александра Плешакова, совладельца "Трансаэро", основного конкурента "Аэрофлота"."
5. Kryukov, Dimitri (Дмитрий Крюков). "Запасной аэродром." (Russian). Kommersant. No. 18 (5049). 1 February 2013. Retrieved on 19 April 2013. "Последняя — единственная частная компания в шорт-листе. Свыше 80% ее контролирует семья Плешаковых в лице Ольги, ее мужа Александра и свекрови Татьяны Анодиной — одной из самых влиятельных фигур российской авиации. Анодина является бессменным председателем Межгосударственного авиационного комитета (МАК), ответственного за сертификацию самолетов на территории СНГ."
6. ""Аэрофлот" получил разрешение на эксплуатацию Boeing 777" (in Russian). lenta.ru. 2013-02-05.
7. "Boeing 777 "Аэрофлота" с отключенным двигателем сел в "Шереметьево"" (in Russian). Ведомости (en:Vedomosti). 2013-02-11.
8. "Main." (Archive) Interstate Aviation Committee. Retrieved on November 19, 2013.
9. (Romanian) "Evaluarea stării actuale şi a perspectivelor colaborării Republicii Moldova în Comunitatea Statelor Independente." Institute of Public Policy, on the Republic of Moldova. Retrieved on 5 November 2011.
10. "КАБІНЕТ МІНІСТРІВ УКРАЇНИ ПОСТАНОВА від 21 березня 2012 р. № 228 Київ Про утворення Національного бюро з розслідування авіаційних подій та інцидентів з цивільними повітряними суднами." (Archive) Verkhovna Rada. Retrieved on 6 April 2013.
11. Про затвердження Правил сертифікації типу авіаційної техніки (Ukrainian)
12. Brilyov, Sergei (Сергей Брилев). "МАК предотвращает катастрофы." (Archive) Vesti. 3 December 2011. Retrieved on 6 April 2013. "- Это последнее поступление? Как я понимаю, это самописцы с самолета Ил-76, который потерпел катастрофу в Пакистане. Самолет был зарегистрирован в Грузии. Ошибки нет. Прозвучало слово "Грузия". Михаил Саакашвили мог выйти из СНГ, но грузинские авиаторы продолжают контактировать с МАК. Он - вне политики."
13. Home at the Wayback Machine (archived August 9, 2001). Interstate Aviation Committee. 9 August 2001. Retrieved on 13 June 2011. "Republics Latvia and Estonia have observer status." - Russian at the Wayback Machine (archived January 28, 2002): "Статус наблюдателей имеют Латвийская Республика и Эстонская Республика."
14. Kutskov, Alexey (December 1990). "Investigating Foreign Aircraft Accidents In the U.S.S.R." (PDF). Flight Safety Digest. Flight Safety Foundation. p. 4. Retrieved 2 February 2013. (Archive)
15. "Russian Duma calls for more state control over aviation safety." Vremya Novostey, Moscow, in the BBC Archive (BBC Monitoring International Reports). May 13, 2004. "[...]former USSR republics back in December 1991, is considered the successor to the USSR State Commission for Oversight of Aircraft Safety (Gosavianadzor)."
16. "History". General Department of Civil Aviation at the Government of the Republic of Armenia. Archived from the original on July 21, 2011. Retrieved 2010-04-26.
17. "Polish representative in IAC sees errors in IAC report". Interfax. January 12, 2011. Retrieved April 15, 2013.
18. Рубникович, Олег (April 14, 2010). Российские и польские следователи разделили самописцы Российские и польские следователи разделили самописцы Check |url= value (help). Kommersant (in Russian). Retrieved April 15, 2013.]

External links

• Official website
• Official website (Russian)
• Official website (old website)
• Official website (old website) (Russian)