KIEV, Sept. 20 ??“ Ukraine is planning by the end of 2006 to join the Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA), which oversees air safety standards in Europe, according to Mykola Marchenko, the head of the state service for supervision of the provision of aviation safety.

"Ukraine will join the Joint Aviation Authorities organization by the end of 2006, we believe this will take place in December," he told journalists after the opening of the second forum for aviation security of the European Civil Aviation Conference (ECAC).