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GATS: Dublin information session
GATS: Upcoming information sessions
GATS: Pre-clearing trust companies
CTC compliance index formula
Export credit and commercial markets: 5th study to OECD

Featured projects

GATS: Dublin information session

AWG held a GATS informative session in Dublin on 17 September. Pictures of the event can be found here.

GATS: Upcoming information sessions

AWG will hold an informative session on GATS:

New York (17 October 2019)
Hong Kong (5 November 2019)
Oklahoma City (8 January 2020) for the business aircraft community

GATS: Pre-clearing trust companies

AWG has commenced the process of pre-clearing trust companies to act as trustees on GATS electronic platform. Pre-cleared trust companies further details, please click here.

CTC compliance index formula

AWG finalizes CTC compliance index formula, definitions, and categories for initial release in February 2020. Please click here.

Export credit and commercial markets: 5th study to OECD

In November 2019, AWG will submit its 5^th study to the OECD comparing financing under the Aircraft Sector Understanding with those in commercial markets.

Inside AWG

Aviation working group (AWG) is a not-for-profit legal entity comprised of major aviation manufacturers, leasing companies and financial institutions that contribute to the development of policies, laws and regulations that facilitate advanced international aviation financing and leasing.

Featured Projects

Global Aircraft Trading System (GATS)

The main purposes of GATS are to facilitate the trading and financing of aircraft equipment by reducing the burdens on lessees, lessors and financiers and to promote aircraft equipment trading and financing in an efficient, secure and predictable manner.

Cape Town Convention (CTC)

AWG is committed to the global ratification of CTC. It consults with governments around the world on ratification, including on the declarations to be made and the relationship between CTC and national law. CTC compliance index: AWG is developing a CTC compliance index to monitor and assess compliance by contracting states with their undertakings under CTC.

Cross-border transferability

The overriding objective of AWG work on XBT is to seek alignment of international regulation, national law, and best practices with the realities of cross-border transfers while at all times maintaining or improving the highest standards of safety through processes that reduce regulatory overlap and duplication and promote consistency, accuracy and simplicity.

Export credit

AWG has engaged with the OECD as a principal interlocutor since 2005 and remains active in work relating to export credit regulation.

Other projects

Banking regulation

Air navigation and airport charges

Accounting

Environmental

Insurance and liability

AWG Members

AWG is comprised of leading aviation manufacturers, financiers, and lessors. Uniquely, it brings these three perspectives to bear in addressing aviation financing and leasing topics.

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AWG Events

GATS: New York

October 17th, 2019

AWG will hold an informative session on GATS in New York (17 October 2019)

GATS: Hong Kong

November 5th, 2019

AWG will hold an informative session on GATS in Hong Kong (5 November 2019).

GATS: Oklahoma City

January 8th, 2020

AWG will hold an informative session on GATS for the business aircraft community in Oklahoma City (8 January 2020)

GATS: Dublin

September 17th, 2019

AWG held a GATS informative session in Dublin on 17 September. Pictures of the event can be found here.

Latin American Regional Event

June 25th, 2019

AWG, in association with the Brazilian National Civil Aviation Agency (ANAC) and supported by ICAO and UNIDROIT, held a major Latin American Regional Event on the Cape Town Convention and its Aircraft Protocol and cross-border transferability of aircraft (XBT) on 25 & 26 June 2019 in Brasilia, Brazil. A press release is attached. Please find additional information on, and images from, the event on the ANAC website.

African Regional Event

June 19th, 2018

AWG, in association with the South African Civil Aviation Authority (SACAA) and supported by ICAO and UNIDROIT, held an African Regional Event on the Cape Town Convention and its Aircraft Protocol and cross-border transferability of aircraft (XBT) on 19 & 20 June 2018 in Cape Town, South Africa. Event materials, and the press release by SACAA relating to it, can be found here.

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