Regulation Directorate

The Aviation Regulation Directorate accomplishes it duties with the support of 7 specialized process divisions namely, Air Craft Registration and Air Worthiness Certefication Directorate ,Air Operators Certification and Servillance Directorate, Aviation personnel and Training School Certification Directorate, Aerodrome Safety and Standard Directorate, Air Transport and Planning Directorate, Security and Facilitation Directorate, and Air Navigation Regulation Directorate

1. Air Craft Registration and Air Worthiness Certefication Directorate

• Issuance of Aircraft Registration
• Issuance of Aircraft Radio License
• Issuance /Renewal of Certificate of Airworthiness
• Issuance of Test Flight or One Time Ferry Flight Permit
• Issuance of Export Certificate of Airworthiness
• Issuance /Renewal of Aircraft Maintenance Organization Certificate
• Welders Approval for Welding an Aircraft Body and Other Parts of an Aircraft
• Evaluation and Approval of the Following Documents Maintenance Program, MEL, ETOPS Manual, Operator Maintenance Control Manual and other documents.
• Issuance of Airworthiness Directive
• Issuance of Extension beyond the approved aircraft maintenance program
• De-registration of an Aircraft
• To give Technical Advises to Air Transport and Planning Department
• Advising /Informing Air Transport and Planning Department about the Airworthiness of the Said Aircraft
• Issuance of Civil Aircraft Registration Data

2. Aviation Personnel and Training School Certification Directorate

Conduct technical examinations and issue licenses to

• Pilots
• Flight
• flight operations officers (flight dispatchers)
• A/c maintenance technicians

Types of Licenses issued

• Private pilot license
• Commercial pilot license
• Airline transport pilot license
• Flight engineer license
• Flight operations officer(flight dispatcher license)
• Air Craft maintenance technician license
• Air traffic controller license

3. Air Operators Certification and Servillance Directorate

• Issuance /Renewal of Air Operator Certificate
• Issuance /Renewal of Flight Simulators Certificate
• Issuance of Dangerous Goods Transporting by Air Application for issuance and renewal must be submitted to the Authority.
• Issuance of Notice Certificate Referring Annex 16 applicant must present an application.

4. Aerodrome Safety and Standards Directorate

• Certify all local and Internatinal aerodromes available in the country
• Inspect all aerodrome
• Auditt International Aerodromes
• Render Consultancy aids to the development of airport infrastructures based on ICAO Annex, design aids and service manuals.
• Control and monitor aerodromes to give it's services to the required safety standard by ICAO Annexes
• Construct, supervise various airtransport facilities such as, towers, localizers, beacon houses, VOR/DME shelters etc
EAE Airport

5. Air Transport and Planning Directorate

Strategic Planning and Management
Develop long and short term strategic action plan that sustainbly enhance the quality of Air Navigation services over the Ethiopian air space and technical ability to regulate the air transport industry in order to meet the needs of users for safe, regular, effcient and economical air transport. Economic Regulations of International and Domestic Air Transport Services
Create a conductive economic regulatory environment that ensures progressive change towards market access, effective and sustained service as well as fair competition in international and Domestic air transport in order to increase users access to the widest possible choice of options.

• Investment permit issuance to Domestic and Foreign Investor
• Issuance of Investment permit for expansion or upgrading of the existing investment
• Investment Permit renewal
• Issuance of operating permit for Scheduled & non-scheduled commercial air transport and General Aviation
• Renewal of operating permit

6. Security and Facilitation Directorate

• Ensure the implementation of the Ethiopian Civil Aviation Security Directive and the airport security program through inspection and audit. Initiate a broad national policy and regulations relating to civil aviation security.
• Review airline operators and international airport security programs and ensure their implementation through inspection.
• Ensure the content of the Ethiopian Aviation Security Training Program and Training Institutions meet the standards and recommended practices of international civil aviation organization.
• Ensure the standards and recommended practices contained in annex 9 (facilitation) to the Chicago convention are implemented on airports serving international civil aviation.
• Initiate a broad national policy and regulations relating to facilitation and monitor their implementation through inspection.

7. Air Navigation Regulation Directorate

• Determine the degree of conformance achieved by the air navigation services provider to the International Civil Aviation Organization(ICAO) standards and recommended practices.
• Prepare Safety audit or inspection schedule and notify to the air navigation provider the audit time table, check list, arrange entry meeting before conducting safety audit or inspections and arrange exit meeting after conducting audit to the auditee.
• Prepare directives and gudeline based on ICAO regulations and conventions which help to follow the work of the air navigation provider.
• Ensure the training,rating and recruitment of air navigation services technical staffs
• Ensure the followups after scheduled audit/inspection
• Prepare procedure handbooks and working instriuction.