USOAP

Under ICAO s Universal Safety Oversight Audit Programme (USOAP), States are required to establish a safety programme where aircraft operators, maintenance organizations and services providers implement appropriate safety management systems. 

Civil aviation authorities may also be subject to action under the blacklist if they do not pay sufficient attention to audits and related corrective action plans emerging from the ICAO s USOAP or any applicable Community law. The ban could be a complete one when shortcomings are due to action or inaction of the civil aviation authority concerned and a partial ban on an airline where it could operate into the Community only with its aircraft that meet the safety standards. 

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