A Directors General of Civil Aviation Conference on a Global Strategy for Aviation Safety was held in March 2006 at ICAO Headquarters in Montreal. The conference recommended that ICAO develop an ongoing process to allow for the release of relevant information to the public on safety oversight audits, so that the travelling public can make an informed decision when using air transportation.

To this end, Contracting States were encouraged to provide ICAO their consent to publish safety oversight audit information consisting at a minimum, of States' compliance levels relative to the eight critical elements of a safety oversight system. While some States have given ICAO authority to disclose an executive summary and critical element graph, others have agreed to the release of the audit summary report in its entirety.

This page contains the list of Contracting States that have provided ICAO consent for the release of information pertaining to audits conducted between 1999 and 2004 under the ICAO Universal Safety Oversight Audit Programme. States not listed have yet to provide ICAO such consent.