The International Civil Aviation Organization’s (ICAO’s) Air Navigation Commission (ANC), meeting in late January, voted to recommend to the ICAO Council that shipments of lithium ion batteries be banned as cargo on passenger aircraft in commercial air transport, according to stakeholders on both sides of the issue. Further details about the recommendation could not be obtained by the time AeroSafety World went to press, but the ICAO Council is expected to take up the matter at its next session in late February, an ICAO spokesman told ASW in an email message. The ANC’s recommendation is the second-to-last step in ICAO’s review process, following earlier assessments by the organization’s Dangerous Goods Panel, Flight Operations Panel and Airworthiness Panel (ASW, 9/15).
In a statement released following the ANC meeting, the Air Line Pilots Association, International said it welcomes the ANC 
