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Introduction

Presentation of the Global Air Navigation Plan

ICAO is an organization of Member States with the objective to develop the principles and techniques of international air navigation, and to foster the planning and development of international transport promoting the development of all aspects of international civil aeronautics.

The ICAO Global Air Navigation Plan (GANP) is an overarching framework that includes key civil aviation policy principles to assist ICAO Regions, subregions and States with the preparation of their Regional and State Air Navigation Plans.

The objective of the GANP is to increase capacity and improve efficiency of the global civil aviation system whilst improving or at least maintaining safety. The GANP also includes strategies for addressing the other ICAO Strategic Objectives.

The GANP includes the Aviation System Block Upgrade (ASBU) framework, its Modules and its associated technology Roadmaps covering, inter alia, communications, surveillance, navigation, information management and avionics.

The ASBUs are designed to be used by the Regions, subregions and States when they wish adopt the relevant Blocks or individual Modules help achieve harmonization and interoperability by their consistent application across the Regions and the world.

The GANP, along with other high-level ICAO Plans, will help ICAO Regions, subregions and States establish their air navigation priorities for the next 15 years.

The GANP outlines ICAO's ten key civil aviation policy principles guiding global, regional and State air navigation planning.