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Formed
  
1991

Headquarters
  
Moscow, Russia

Preceding agency
  
Gosavianadzor USSR

Website
  
mak-iac.org/en/

Interstate Aviation Committee

Jurisdiction
  
Russia limited authority in other  CIS countries

Agency executive
  
Tatyana Anodina, Director

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.

Contents

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

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

The committee is headquartered in Yakimanka District, Central Administrative Okrug, Moscow, Russia. 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. There was press speculation regarding Anodina's conflict of interest in certifying aircraft with respect to Transaero's market position.

Current

As of November 2013, the following countries are named by the IAC 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. 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.
  • Uzbekistan

    • Former

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

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

  • Estonia
  • Latvia

    • History

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

    References

    Interstate Aviation Committee Wikipedia
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