Aviation safety regulation
within a European framework

The role of the CAA’s Safety Regulation Group is to develop our UK world-class aviation safety environment, in partnership with industry, by driving continuous improvements in aviation safety in the UK and, in partnership with the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), across Europe.

The European Community established EASA in 2003 with the legal competence to be the rulemaking and standard setting organisation for all aviation safety regulation on behalf of its member states. The agency is now actively undertaking the tasks of aircraft and product certification, and it has responsibility for the rules related to the design and maintenance of aircraft products and parts, plus setting standards for those organisations involved in design, production and maintenance of these products and parts. Arrangements for further expansion of the Agency’s rulemaking role are advancing apace and the detailed Implementing Rules for aircraft operations and flight crew licensing are expected to be completed during 2009. Similarly, work has begun on developing draft (high level) Essential Requirements to cover air traffic management and aerodrome activities, and this is expected to be the third and final major phase of the transition to a coherent European rulemaking body for aviation safety regulation.

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Flight crew licensing is awaited to be ended in 2009.