The ACAO 49th Air navigation Committee Hybrid meeting ANC/49 has been held in rabat‚ Morocco‚ in the ACAO HQ‚ during the period 31 Oct – 1 Nov 2023‚ 08:30 to 11:30. H.E. Mr. Manar Abdennebi DG of the ACAO opened the meeting welcoming the participants. The meeting has been chaired by Mr. Waleed Alanezi representative of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia‚ who was elected to chair that committee in absence of the Chair & vicechair. The secretariat was ensured by Hicham Bennani Air navigation Expert within ACAO.

The meeting was attended by a total of 14 participants from 5 States and 2 Organisations.
In addition to the review of the list of actions and decisions taken as result of the previous session‚ the meeting adopted a series of recommendations regarding the implementation of the GNSS (considering the outcomes of the ACAO GNSS SG/3 meeting which is working on the edition of the new version of the ACAO GNSS Strategy and roadmap‚ considering all opportunities for implementation of the SBAS as well as the GBAS)‚ the ATFM (which convene on the main orientation for the ACAO ATFM strategy considering the Middle east multi-nodal concept and South Mediterranean ATFM solution) and recent development of the Over Flight Permit.

The participants discussed the frequency management challenges and ACAO support on the update of the associated FF tool.