Through Decree 639/2024 published this Friday (19th) in the Official Gazette, the Argentine government has announced the regulation of the new National Aircraft Registry, which will be electronic and digital with the aim of «defining issuance deadlines according to the needs of the industry in the region», thus ending the process that has been in place for over 50 years. The decree will come into effect in 60 days.
It also indicates that with the advancement of digital signature infrastructure «it is unnecessary for officials to travel abroad, incurring high costs paid by the industry, to register aircraft or other procedures, as they can efficiently perform their work electronically and digitally from their offices» and that «the delay in administrative processes due to redundant regulatory and documentary requirements leads to unnecessary delays in procedures, harming operational safety«.
The activity of the new registry, as stated in article 1, «will be governed by the principles of contractual freedom, security, good faith, procedural economy, speed, unity of the State, dynamism, internationality, comprehensiveness, direct communication, and effectiveness».
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Article 10 states that officials must respond within a maximum of five business days from the first business day following the submission of the documentation related to the procedure. «Until today, processing a registration could take up to five years, much longer than the time it takes to design and manufacture an aircraft«, the Transport Secretariat stated in a communiqué.
Furthermore, each user will be able to choose their own registration as long as it is not pre-assigned.
«The main goal of this decree is to reduce and optimize management, avoiding bureaucratization and, on the other hand, speeding up the timeframes for obtaining registrations, while maintaining all the necessary requirements for that registration to be issued, thereby upholding operational safety«, concluded the Transport Secretariat.
All this is part of the process of restructuring aerocommercial legislation which, according to the government, aims to «provide the market with a competitive environment that grants enough flexibility to reach all Argentine cities«, also highlighting that «Argentine aeronautical policy has strongly limited the development of the aerocommercial industry, a fundamental pillar not only for its federal integration but fundamentally for economic and tourism development«.
In this regard, last week the Argentine government also published decree 599/2024 that deeply deregulates the aerocommercial market.
