The goal of Security in Civil Aviation is the constant vigilant safeguarding and protection of people and property via activities that prevent and combat any illegal or illicit activity. The National Programme for Security in Civil Aviation (PNSAC) establishes the organising structure and framework of duties and responsibilities for each entity involved and specifies norms, regulations, methods and procedures enacted to achieve civil Security objectives.
ANA, SA, in its role as manager of 7 airports, is one of these participating entities. ANA, SA assumes the responsibilities of securing the goals stated in the PNSAC. Keenly aware of the scope of this mission, ANA, SA has implemented in those 7 airports under its management an effective and efficient Security assuredness system.
To reach this goal, new screening equipment and systems have been installed in collaboration with the National Institute for Civil Aviation (INAC) and other Police Authorities and Inspection Officials, in order to consolidate individual efforts and improve the results of the Security system. Maintained throughout has been growth in operational capacity and collaboration with our business partners in order to assure the development of control systems that will lessen the risks that may occur from abuse or criminal activity.
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Company Security Policy
For ANA, SA, the Security Policy is aimed at compliance to the fullest degree with all national and international legislations and regulations that establish the guidelines and the organisation of the Security systems for the airport.
Despite the scope of this vision, ANA cannot help but be confronted with new situations – those that are in evidence in recently published European regulations.
Namely, as a consequence of the events of September 11, 2001 in the United States, the European Union published Regulation (EC) n.º 2320/2002 in the European Parliament and the Council establishing basic guidelines for Security in Civil Aviation. These went into effect in January 2003. This mandatory regulation caused profound alterations to take place in the organisation of operations at airports, as well as in their physical configurations. As a result, ANA was forced to adopt a policy of compliance to the new rules be means of contingency plans, which left for a second phase other initiatives that could aim at better rationalising costs and optimising operations (facilitation).
In order to put this plan into action, ANA shall formalise the Security Management System Against Illicit Acts, to be joined with the Security Management System and Security and Health in the Workplace to constitute the overall Airport Security Management System - SMS (Sistema de Gestão de Segurança Aeroportuária - SGSA), which will reach all echelons of the company, beginning with the highest levels of Administration on down the corporate ranks at all airports. Thus, we will be able to assure the continual strengthening of measures, those of a preventative nature, preferentially, with the goal of minimising all types of occurrences, omissions and oversights that may put any one of these three domains in jeopardy.
In the ambit of this policy, ANA, SA is committed to:
offering all structures and means considered necessary, be it at the central level or at airport level, that will allow for the effective and cost-efficient management of Security as a fundamental component for success in the business operations of airports;
adopting those measures necessary for the creation, alteration and updating of norms and procedures, for the acquisition of equipment, and the implementation of training and practice sessions which will contribute to the strengthening of Security in various areas as well as the enhancement of the positive image of responsibility that our national airports enjoy.
Corporate Activities and Airport Activities
In order to bring this policy into force, ANA, at the corporate level as well as at every airport, has developed or has arranged for the development of a set of activities and initiatives that will:
Optimise the Security/facilitation correlation such that the effects of Security concerns on operations at airports and on the quality of passenger services is minimised;
Assure that all Security operations (screening of passengers, carry-on items, luggage stowed in the hold, crew items, etc.) which are performed by outside Private Security Companies are carried out with the highest level of quality, both in the efficiency of how Security measures are implemented and in the friendly relations these persons will have with passengers and staff
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Assure that the Security systems in place at each airport attain the highest level of efficiency and guarantee the compliance to national and international legislation and regulations in accordance with the risk evaluation for each one
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Increase the efficiency of the Security system;
The following is a list of the most relevant activities already developed to date:
On the Corporate Level
Annual auditing of each airport;
Support provided to airports;
Participation in the FALSEC National Commission;
Member of ACI Europe’s Public Security and Security Committee;
Participation in the development and revision of national legislation and regulations;
Participation in the revision of European regulations at ACI Europe;
Open bid for the selection of a private security company for the seven airports.
On the Airport Level
Nomination of the Director of the Airport as local representative for the INAC Security Authority
Implementation of the Office for Quality Control in Security at the Lisbon Airport;
Implementation of the Office for Security at the Lisbon and Faro Airports;
Acquisition of new screening equipment (metal detectors, conventional x-ray and EDS machines, among others);
Adaptation of infrastructures;
Security Training;
Updating of system for issuing Access Cards for restricted areas
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Security procedures may imply an increase in the time needed for processing passengers and their respective luggage.
To help you avoid any inconvenience or delay during your journey, we recommend that you consult the webpage for each airport as well as the list of objects classified as Dangerous Goods/Prohibited Articles so you may determine what may or may not be transported in your carry-on baggage or in stowed luggage.
The Airport Security Management System (ASMS)
ANA’s Organisation for Civil Aviation Security:
Airport Security Commission - CSA (Comissão de Segurança Aeroportuária) Airport Security Office - GSA (Gabinete de Segurança Aeroportuária) Airport Security Operations Centre - COSA (Centro de Operações de Segurança Aeroportuária) Emergency Operations Centre - COE (Centro de Operações de Emergência) National Authority for Civil Aviation Security - ANSAC (Autoridade Nacional de Segurança da Aviação Civil) National Commission on Security - CNS (Comissão Nacional de Segurança) Office for Quality Control Assuredness in Civil Aviation - GCQSAC (Gabinete de Controlo de Qualidade da Segurança da Aviação Civil) Technical Services Directorate - DSTE (Direcção dos Serviços Técnicos) Division for Facilitation and Security - DIV FALSEC (Divisão de Facilitação e Segurança)
As part of the organisational structure of ANA, SA, there exists a Security Management System that is not merely limited to the traditional monitoring of compliance to norms and regulations but is one whose aim is to stem the potential increase in events that may result from increasing aircraft movement and the complexity of airports.
The philosophy behind the SMS requires that a firm commitment to airport Security, and the necessary budgetary backing for same, be assumed into the organisational structure, and that the Directors and Managers acknowledge their position of being ultimately responsible for airport Security, as they indeed are for other aspects of the business.
This is a system that does not play the simple role of merely gathering responses to airport Security. The SMS is, in essence, a pro-active element that strives to minimise all such occurrences that would affect operations activities. Airport Security must not be moulded only by the operational needs of the moment but should be established upon a staunch commitment to allot resources that will permit airports to adjust procedures and realign non-conformities that may lead to the occurrence of events.
In all those areas that touch upon Airport Security, established norms and procedures must always be consistent with the Security Policy in place at ANA, SA, with the Airport Security Manual and with those Regulations in effect for each sector of activity. They must be fully adequate such that all those who implement them do so corresponding to the finest level of current practice.
