Local authorities will advance with new administrative regulations to undertake a comprehensive review of existing civil aviation security legislation in order to ensure compliance with International Civil Aviation Organization requirements.
While presenting the regulations, Executive Council spokesperson and Secretary for Administration and Justice André Cheong Weng Chon said today that local air transport and civil aviation security are still regulated by a 1994 decree with the increasing size and complexity of the civil aviation sector in the SAR requiring a review of regulations in force.
The administrative regulation will aim to prevent and repress acts of unlawful interference, in order to guarantee the sector’s operational security; the efficient management of the necessary security control procedures, facilitate air traffic and the movement of people and goods, as well as eliminating unnecessary obstacles and delays.
“Almost all years there’s a passenger or other visitors, entities that can’t reason 100pct all security measures of the airport. I don’t know if you remember some case son people climbed the fences to try and enter some airport areas, with this law we can have some oversight measures,” the president of the Civil Aviation Authority of Macao SAR (AACM)
It is also applicable to all activities that take place at an aerodrome located in Macau or on an aircraft that is registered or operating in Macau and to all activities of supplying goods or providing services to aerodromes located in the SAR or through them by entities that apply civil aviation safety standards and requirements and that operate from facilities located inside or outside these aerodromes.
The administrative regulation also establishes a new sanctioning framework, within fractions constituting an administrative infraction subject to a fine, with the AACM to monitor compliance with the new system.
The duties and responsibilities of the AACM and the Air Transport Facilitation and Civil Aviation Security Commission will also be better defined, while optimizing the provisions relating to the elaboration and updating of important documents, such as the Civil Aviation Security Program of the MSAR, the Air Transport Facilitation Program of the MSAR and the Aerodrome Emergency Plan, among others.
The Macao Facilitation and Security Committee has also held its 1st meeting of the year on March 25 to discuss the annual plan with the government departments and local aviation industry.
According to AACM data, only three unlawful acts committed on board aircraft were committed in 2021, namely three instances of illicit smoking.
