The Air Navigation Services Unit is responsible for:
- planning and co-ordinating actions designed to achieve national and pan-European Air Traffic Management objectives in a safe and efficient manner
- monitoring and implementing the relevant actions relating to air navigation standards arising out of Malta’s membership of international organisations or from local legal or administrative requirements
- regulating Air Traffic Management and airspace design (includes communications, navigation, surveillance, airspace and air traffic management systems and procedures, as well as Aeronautical Information Services)
- the preparation of approach and departure procedures, the production of relevant charts and the Malta Aeronautical Information Publication (AIP)