Your feedback will ensure the Regulation continues to support compliance with our bilateral air services arrangements.
Why we want your input
The current Regulation is due to expire on 1 April 2026. Your input will ensure the updated regulation continues to efficiently and effectively support our bilateral air services arrangements and related other matters.How you can voice your opinion
You can upload a written submission by clicking the ‘Have Your Say’ button below or email your submission to internationalaviation@infrastructure.gov.au.What will be the outcome of this consultation?
Your feedback will inform the review and remake of the Regulation, which we are working to complete by the end of 2025. This will provide continuity for international airlines operating in the 2026 Northern Summer international airline timetable period. Transitional arrangements will be included to provide certainty and minimise the impact upon industry.The Issue
The Air Navigation Regulation 2016is due to sunset on 1 April 2026. The Regulation creates a framework for ensuring compliance with bilateral air services arrangements. This is achieved through a system of licensing, data collection and the approvals of timetables for international air services. A range of other issues relating to Australia's implementation of the Convention of International Civil Aviation (the Chicago Convention) are implemented by the Regulation.
We are reviewing the Regulation to ensure it remains fit-for-purpose and continues to support an efficient, sustainable, competitive, safe and secure aviation system.
The Regulation covers:
- The collection of statistical information from aircraft owners and operators by the Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Research Economics (BITRE). The Regulation enables BITRE to respond to requests for data from the International Civil Aviation Organisation in accordance with the Chicago Convention (Part 2).
- A framework for the licensing of scheduled international air services. This includes the application requirements for granting of an international airline licence; the granting, refusal, variation, suspension or cancellation of a licence; the duration and condition of a licence which includes compliance with other aviation related regulatory frameworks; and the ongoing provision of compliance declarations (Part 3).
- A tariffs (price) mechanism for international air transport services as required by some foreign governments and consistent with provisions in our bilateral air services arrangements (Part 4).
- The approval, variation, suspension or cancellation of timetables or scheduled international air services to ensure services are operated consistently with the commercial entitlements granted under bilateral air services arrangements. This includes offences relating to operating air services without an approved timetable and advertising services without specific qualifications (Part 5).
- Other international and miscellaneous matters, including smoking on an aircraft; exemptions of certain aircraft parts and equipment from seizure on patent claims; directions in relation to certain airports and aerodromes; the production of documents when required; and the protection of certain rights (Parts 6 and 7).
We are seeking feedback from aviation stakeholders on parts of the Regulation that could be updated or improved. Your input will help shape our future regulatory framework and ensure it reflects current and emerging needs.
We may also incorporate into the Regulation relevant aviation data initiatives outlined in the Aviation White Paper and will consult on these initiatives separately.
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We invite you to tell us your views on this topic.
Please include:
- contact name
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- contact details, including telephone number, postal and email addresses
- confirmation whether or not your submission can be made public—published—or kept confidential.
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Please click on the 'Have your say now' button below to upload your submission.
Alternatively please email your completed template submission to internationalaviation@infrastructure.gov.au.
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