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The Jordanian Civil Aviation Regulatory Commission (CARC) has expressed its confidence in Lufthansa Consulting (LCG) and has recently extended the fruitful project relationship by another year.

In 2004 Lufthansa Consulting was selected to provide consultancy and technical assistance in restructuring the country’s Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), as it was called at that time, and in strengthening the civil aviation regulator. The project was funded and executed within the framework of the EUROPEAID European Community External Aid Project “Support for Regulatory Reform and Privatization in Infrastructure (SRRP Programme)”.

The main objective and vital part of the restructuring project is to separate the CAA’s regulatory functions (safety and security) from those service or operational areas (airports and air traffic services). Before, the CAA was responsible for both elements of the civil aviation sector.
The project proved to be the catalyst for developing, introducing and manag¬ing the change processes needed and to strengthen the resultant entities, thereby enabling them to survive as transparent, accountable, self-fun¬ding, autonomous enterprises.
After the transformation of CAA into CARC in 2007, the Jordan Airports Company was established in December 2008 and with the founding of an autonomous, financially independent air navigation services organization in 2009, the CARC will focus purely on its aviation regulatory functions.
 
Since the implementation of the project and its extension, LCG has, on an ongoing basis, provided on-site and overseas training in various areas such as flight safety and operations, auditing techniques, environmental regulations as well as consumer protection and IT security. In addition LCG is actively supporting the CARC in developing and implementing operational policies based on Jordanian and international legal requirements and has provided ongoing technical assistance in converting the CARC’s Civil Aviation Regulations into EASA-/EU OPS-based regulations, which are currently being implemented and more will be passed during the first part of 2009.

Capacity development and strengthening the CARC is necessary to ensure that it has the regulations, technical knowledge, IT, personnel, documentation and manage¬ment capabilities as well as systems and support to enable it to effectively regulate the expanding national industry and to meet Jordan’s growing international obligations and commitments.