The Government Council approves a draft decree for the aircraft industry in Morocco.

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Today, Thursday (April 18), the Government Council deliberated and approved draft Decree No. 2.23.681 relating to the design, production, maintenance and seaworthiness of aircraft, presented by Mohamed Abdel Jalil, Minister of Transport and Logistics.

This project comes, according to the Government Council’s report, in implementation of some provisions of the first section of Law No. 40.13 related to civil aviation, as many of its provisions were referred to regulatory texts in order to determine the technical standards and conditions for accreditation of persons working in the fields of aircraft design, production, maintenance, and management of maintaining their suitability. For navigation.

The communication added that the draft decree comes within the framework of the compatibility of national legislation with the provisions of the Agreement on International Civil Aviation signed in Chicago on December 7, 1944, issued by Royal Decree No. 1.57.172, and whose Appendix No. 8 specifies the technical standards and conditions that must be respected in order to ensure The seaworthiness of aircraft, whether during its design, production or maintenance phase.

This draft decree aims to specify the technical specifications that must be respected by persons wishing to obtain the accreditation granted by the governmental authority in charge of civil aviation in order to carry out the process of designing, producing and maintaining aircraft in Morocco. Determine the conditions for the accreditation of natural and legal persons in order to carry out the process of maintaining the seaworthiness of aircraft, as one of the activities that contribute to ensuring the safety of air navigation; In addition to determining how the governmental authority in charge of civil aviation carries out monitoring operations.