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On March 4, the second meeting of the Working Group on Governance and Efficiency (WGGE) was held within 201st Session of the Council of ICAO. Before the meeting was held a funeral ceremony of Dr. Assad Kotaite, President Emeritus of the ICAO Council, who passed away on 27 February 2014. The ceremony was attended by Members of the Council of ICAO, Secretary General Mr. Raymond Benjamin, President of the ICAO Council Dr. Benard Olumuyiwa Aliu and former President of the ICAO Council Mr. Roberto Kobeh González.

On Monday, 3 March began the Safety Week during the council phase of the 201. Session of the Council of ICAO. The Permanent Representative of the Republic of Poland on Council Dr. Małgorzata Polkowska participates in the meetings. Prior to the meeting of the Council there has been held a coordination meeting of the EU. During the meeting participants discussed the results of last week's Council meetings. There was also agreed EU position with regard to the documents that will be presented at the meetings of the Council during the "safety week".

On 26February 2014, within the 201st Session of the ICAO Council was held a meeting of the Technical Co-Operation Committee Ad Hoc Working Group On Technical Cooperation Programme Development . The group in addition to the Chairman of the Technical Co-operation Committee consists of permanent representatives of Spain, Venezuela, Burkina Faso, Portugal, Brazil and Poland.

In Montreal the council phase of the 201th Session of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO ) takes place. The Polish delegation - Mr. Piotr Ołowski President of the Civil Aviation Authority and the Permanent Representative of the Council Dr. Małgorzata Polkowska have participated in the several meetings during the following days.

The second – council phase of the 201st Session of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Council has begun in Montreal. The meetings are attended by the Polish Delegation - President of the Civil Aviation Authority Mr. Piotr Ołowski and Permanent Representative to the Council - Dr. Małgorzata Polkowska.

On 11 February 2014 at the headquarters of the European Civil Aviation Conference (ECAC) in Paris was held the 23rd Legal Task Force meeting with attendance of the representatives of the Civil Aviation Authority. The meeting was devoted to discussions on the draft text of the Protocol to the Tokyo Convention of 1963.

On 11 February 2014 in Helsinki the Symposium organized by the Finnish Transport Safety Agency (Trafi) concerning the Evidence Based Training (EBT) project was held. The meeting was attended by experts of pilot training including instructors, training managers, ATO managers, airline flight operation and safety managers, and a representative of the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) Mr. George Rebener. The Civil Aviation Authority was represented by an employee of the Flight Operation Department.

The EU-ASEAN Aviation Summit takes place in Singapore on 11-12 February. The Summit is jointly organized by the European Commission and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). The aim of the event is to increase the technical, political and industrial co-operation between regions.

The Civil Aviation Authority supervises and regulates the area of civil aviation. Due to the rapid growth of aviation, the number of entities which should be supervised is increasing (including holders of licenses, certificates, etc.) The tasks of the CAA are strictly defined in the Aviation Law Act, but the most important task of the Authority is to ensure the safety of civil aviation, performing inspections and audits of air operators, in order to ensure that they operate properly and in accordance with the law. The following infographics present the statistics of activities of the CAA in 2013 and include the number of issued flight crew licenses, certificates of competence and certificates for aviation entities.

A rapidly growing air transport observed in Poland in the last decade, promotes not only convenient and fast travel of increasingly larger groups of society at large distances, thus contributes to the economic development of the regions, but also poses a risk of exposure of the population living in areas around airports to excessive noise. To counteract this aerodrome management and air navigation services under the supervision of the national aviation authority implement various kinds of improvements and operational changes , such as avoiding approaches to land above the most densely populated areas, prohibition on the use of reverse thrust just after landing, reducing the number of operations at night, etc.