Nepal sets 2027 deadline to split civil aviation authority amid delayed reforms
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- Finance Minister Swarnim Wagle has set a mid‑January 2027 deadline for dividing the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal into separate regulatory and service‑provider entities, after the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal Bill and the Air Service Authority of Nepal Bill were approved by the finance ministry and sent to the Law Ministry about two months ago.
- Parliament was prorogued, pushing discussion and passage of the bills to the next winter session, while the International Civil Aviation Organisation’s USOAP audit is scheduled for May next year; Nepal must freeze its legal and regulatory documents six months before the audit and upload updated regulations, procedural guidelines and self‑assessment checklists to ICAO’s Online Framework four to six months before the audit.
- An anonymous senior official at the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal plans to request an extension of the ICAO audit.
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