The UK will withdraw as a member state of the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) after a transition period and shift responsibility for aircraft certification and safety regulation to its own Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), British Transportation Secretary Grant Shapps said.
“We will leave EASA,” Shapps said Mar. 6 during an exclusive interview with Aviation Week. “A lot of the expertise they have is UK expertise, in fact. A lot of the key leading lights were Brits.” |