With the aim of providing studies, information and recommendations regarding ANAC's regulatory structure for the air medical transport(Click to learn more) carried out by Brazilian public air service operators, the National Civil Aviation Agency (ANAC) created the Technical Committee for the Air Medical Transport Service (CT-STA), as provided in Ordinance No. 4.696, of March 31, 2021 (Click on the link to access).
The results of the work will be analyzed by the Agency's Superintendence of Operating Standards (SPO), which will make the necessary referrals in relation to eventual changes and improvements in the regulation on the subject.
The Committee, whose must be appointed to the SPO by April 10, will be composed of representatives of the Brazilian Association of General Aviation (Abag), Brazilian Association of Air Taxi and Aeronautical Product Maintenance Companies (ABTAER), Brazilian Association of Operators Aeromédicos (Aboa), Federal Council of Medicine (CFM), Federal Council of Nursing (Cofen), National Union of Air Taxi Companies (SNETA) and National Union of Aeronauts (SNA).
The decision to create the CT-STA took place in view of the need to update ANAC's regulatory framework regarding air medical transport operations and considered, for this purpose, the importance of dialogue and exchange of experiences, in addition to mutual learning and the construction of partnerships in ing ANAC's normative processes.
Thus, through the instrument of social participation, the Agency seeks to advance in the application of modern concepts of regulation, including responsive regulation.
Considering the need to build understandings and possible proposals to be used as subsidies in the regulatory process regarding matters of aeromedical transport, the final report and the proposal for regulations presented by the CT-STA will provide subsidy for the decision making by the SPO on the update of the norms related to the subject, and the Superintendence may use them partially or fully.
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