The 144th Extraordinary Meeting of the Board of Directors of COCESNA was held at ICCAE headquarters in Ilopango, El Salvador, on August 14, 2019.
This meeting was attended by representatives of: BELIZE Lic. Lindsay Armstrong Garbutt, Director of Civil Aviation, Sr. Kenworth Tillet Norel, Advisor to the Ministry of Tourism; COSTA RICA Ing. Rodolfo Méndez Mata, Minister of Public Works and Transportation, EL SALVADOR, Ing. Jorge Alberto Puquirre Torres, Director President Board of Directors of the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), Lic. Francisco José Sol, Director Board CAA; GUATEMALA, Cap. Francis Arturo Argueta Aguirre, Director General de Aeronáutica Civil; HONDURAS Lic. Wilfredo Lobo Reyes, Executive Director of AHAC; NICARAGUA Cap. Carlos Danilo Salazar, Director of INAC, Dr. Leónidas Vicente Duarte, Legal Advisor of INAC; COCESNA Mr. Juan Carlos Trabanino, Executive President and Secretary of the Board of Directors, Gen. Manuel Cáceres, ACSA Director, Mr. Mario R. Martínez, ICCAE Director, Mr. Gustavo Zúniga, FAM Manager, Mr. Mario C. Blanco Internal Audit, Mr. Dagoberto Mejía, Internal Audit Supervisor, for the Internal Secretariat and Public Relations, Mr. Dagoberto Mejía, Internal Audit Supervisor, for the Internal Secretariat and Public Relations, Mr. Mario C. Blanco, Internal Audit Manager, and Mr. Dagoberto Mejía, Internal Audit Supervisor, for the Internal Secretariat and Public Relations, Mr. Manuel Cáceres, Internal Audit Manager. Albert Cárcamo and Lic. Silvia Quezada. GUESTS: FAA Sr. Rick Domingo, ICAO, Cap. Miguel Ramos, Sr. Marco Ospina Yépez, Consultant, Lic. Roberto Salinas, FAM Consultant
The Board of Directors discussed the following agenda:
Review of COCESNA’s Financial, Operational, Technical and Legal Functioning of the Agencies
Subject FAM
Amendments to the FAM General Regulations, based on the recommendations of the Financial Managers Audit;
Subject Administrative
Per diem Policy for members of the Directing Council to attend the 40th ICAO Assembly.
Topics Internal Audit
Results of the Process for the hiring of the External Audit Firm for the years 2019, 2020 and 2021 for approval by the Board of Directors;
Modification to the Service Code for the hiring of technical and operational specialists who are related to Corporation personnel, provided that there is no conflict of interest.
Preliminary progress report of the Ad-Hoc Bylaws Review Committee;
ICAO Topic
ICAO Presentation: Report on the GASOS program;
Subject FAA
FAA Presentation: Within the framework of the Cooperation Agreement between COCESNA and FAA;
Subject EASA
EU-LAC Project, its expectations in the Central American Region,
Subject ACNA
Implementation of ADS-B in the oceanic airspace of the Central American IRF
