18 March 1994
10 November 1994
Amendment 6 to the
12th Edition
Air Navigation Commission
Simultaneous operations on parallel or near-parallel
instrument runways.
13 March 1995
9 November 1995
13th Edition
Secretariat; SSR Improvements and
Collision Avoidance Systems Panel
(SICASP), Fifth Meeting (1993); All
Weather Operations Panel
Use of radar in air traffic services; airborne collision
avoidance systems (ACAS); approach instructions
for microwave landing system (MLS)/area
navigation (RNAV) procedures.
21 March 1996
7 November 1996
Amendment 1 to the
13th Edition
Air Navigation Commission
Definitions; AIREP formats and automated air
reporting; forwarding of meteorological
information; separation between aircraft; adequacy
of distress and urgency communication procedures;
and communication failure procedures.
5 March 1997
6 November 1997
Amendment
Source(s)
Subject(s)
Approved
Applicable

Foreword
(xvii)
Amendment 2 to the
13th Edition
Automatic Dependent Surveillance
Panel, Fourth Meeting (1996); Review
of the General Concept of Separation
Panel, Ninth Meeting (1996)
Automatic dependent surveillance; data interchange
between automatic ATS systems; ATS applications
for air-ground data links; separation between
aircraft; required navigation performance; and
required navigation performance and area
navigation for en-route operations.
19 March 1998
5 November 1998
Amendment 3 to the
13th Edition
Air Navigation Commission; Visual
Aids Panel, Thirteenth Meeting (1997)
ATS airspace classifications; visual meteorological
conditions clearance; and runway-holding position.
10 March 1999
4 November 1999
14th Edition
Air Navigation; Secretariat; fifth
meeting of the Automatic Dependent
Surveillance Panel (ADSP/5);
Multi-
Agency Air Traffic Services
Procedures Co-ordination Group
(MAPCOG); thirty-ninth meeting of
the European Air Navigation Planning
Group (EANPG/39); eleventh and
twelfth meetings of the Obstacle
Clearance Panel (OCP/11 and
OCP/12);
Amendment 72 to Annex 3 —
Meteorological Service for Inter-
national Air Navigation
; Amendments
25, 20 and 7 to Annex 6 —
Operation
of Aircraft
, Parts I, II and III;
Amendments 26, 21 and 8 to Annex 6,
Parts I, II and III
Renaming of document to
Procedures for Air
Navigation Services — Air Traffic Management
(PANS-ATM);
Chapter 1 — Definitions. New and
revised definitions; New Chapter 2 — ATS Safety
Management. Introduction of new provisions
relating to ATS safety management; New Chapter 3
— ATS System Capacity and Air Traffic Flow
Management. Introduction of new provisions
relating to ATFM procedures and capacity
management; Chapter 4 — General Provisions for
Air Traffic Services. Restructuring of the material,
changes to read-back requirements, and expansion
of the provisions relating to speed control; Chapter
5 — Separation Methods and Minima.
Restructuring, and editorial changes to improve
clarity; Chapter 6 — Separation in the Vicinity of
Aerodromes. Restructuring, introduction of new
provisions relating to standard clearances for
arriving and departing aircraft; Chapter 7 —
Procedures for Aerodrome Control Service.

