3.2 ICAO: Composition, Role, Functions and Settlement of

International Disputes The composition (the organs): The Assembly (the sovereign body: the member states' meeting — at least every three years; the policy's adoption, the budgets, the review); The Council (the executive: the 36 members elected by the Assembly (the tri-partite formula: states of chief importance in air transport / contribution / geographic representation); the continuous organ — the SARPs' adoption, the disputes' adjudication, the audit-and-oversight functions); The Secretariat (the Secretary General's administration: the technical bureaus — the air navigation, the transport, the legal, the audit); The auxiliary bodies: the Air Navigation Commission (the technical SARPs' engine), the committees-and-panels (the legal committee's convention-drafting role), the regional machinery (the regional offices-and-planning groups — the APAC world). The role and functions: The standard-setting — the SARPs' adoption (the Annexes — the 19-plus technical codes; the difference's filing regime; the audit's enforcement: the USAP — the Universal Safety Oversight Audit Programme; the security's USAP-CMA); The air navigation's planning — the regional plans, the CNS/ATM systems' modernisation; The facilitation-and-economics — the border-crossing's disciplines, the statistics, the economics' studies; The legal work — the conventions' drafting-and-promotion (the Montreal 1999's birth; the Beijing 2010's world); The technical cooperation — the developing states' assistance (Nepal's own capacity- building's source); The environment's leadership — the CORSIA's administration (Unit 1.6), the noise-and- emissions standards; The oversight-and-assistance balance — the…