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The smooth operations of international aviation are made possible by
the exis-tence of universally accepted standards to cover all technical
and operational aspects of international civil aviation, such as safety,
personnel licensing, opera-tion of aircraft, aerodromes, air traffic ser-
vices, accident investigation and the environment.
Each country has a national (or civil) aviation authority (NAA/CAA), a
government statutory authority that oversees the approval and regula-
tion of civil aviation. Some major CAAs are:
• Australia – Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA)
• Canada – Transport Canada (TC)
• France – Direction Générale de l‘Aviation Civile (DGAC)
• Germany – Luftfahrt-Bundesamt (LBA)
• Italy – Ente Nazionale per l‘Aviazione Civile (ENAC)
• Peoples Republic of China – Civil Aviation Administration of Chi-
na (CAAC)
• Russia – Federal Air Transport Agency (Росавиация)
• Singapore – Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS)
• South Africa – South African Civil Aviation Authority (SACAA)
• United Kingdom – Civil Aviation Authority (United Kingdom)
(CAA)
• United States of America – Federal Aviation Administration
(FAA)
Which authority should you use for flight planning?
The regulations used for a flight are always those written by the CAA of
the country which holds the carrier‘s certificate, regardless of where the
flight is flown. As examples:
• an European-registered carrier operating a flight always flies it as
a EU-OPS rules flight;