This chapter provides specific information for the production of AIP Supplements in the context of an eAIP.
As of December 2004 the AIP section GEN 0.3 (List of Supplements) shall not be edited manually but generated automatically.
This transformation uses the eAIP definition file in order to generate the content of section GEN 0.3. This information is also used to generate the list of Supplements in force, which is part of the eAIP HTML interface.
Until December 2004, GEN 0.3 was edited manually and the list of Supplements in force was generated from GEN 0.3. The reason for the change is that some AIS offices do not update section GEN 0.3 each time there is a new Supplement to publish. It would be beneficial to States not to have to make an official Amendment if only GEN 0.3 needs to be updated. Hence, the requirement arose to separate the publication of a new Supplement from the publication of GEN 0.3.
The solution involves having a list of Supplements as part of the eAIP description and GEN 0.3 shall only be generated from this list when required.
This solution has a smaller impact on AIS offices' operations than the manual editing of GEN 0.3 and generating the list of Supplements from it. Users of the electronic version of eAIPs shall have the complete list of Supplements in force at that time, as part of the eAIP HTML interface.
Users of the paper version of the AIP shall receive the paper version of the eAIP with only the newly published Supplement. The user shall be required to attach the new Supplement to the appropriate volume of their paper copy of the AIP.
Both groups of users will have the same version of GEN 0.3 to hand.