22/04
I think we rather hope that there will be a probably sector specific trade deal that will permit membership and voting rights for a fee
A recent
report by the CBI employers' group called Smooth Operations, "suggests the UK could still exert influence over important regulatory decisions through continued membership of the many EU agencies - such as the ones governing aerospace and chemicals - in which other non-EU nations like Turkey currently participate."
The CBI is wrong in its statement in that it maintains that Turkey is a member of the EU Agency, EASA. A look at the EASA
website will confirm that this is in error and that Turkey is not an EASA member. The CBI is further in error by suggesting that Turkey could, through a sector specific trade deal "exert influence over important regulatory decisions" and that UK could exert similar, following Brexit.
The reality is contained
here detailing a limited relationships known as Working Arrangements. One covers the collection and exchange of information on the safety of aircraft and another deals with the relationships between EASA and the Turkish Directorate General of Civil Aviation.
To quote Dr. Richard North at his
website:This latter arrangement is as formal as it gets between the two organisations, which amounts to EASA notifying the Turks of changes to relevant standards and assisting them in understanding the applicable rules, "so as to facilitate their transposition and implementation.
In return for this largesse, the Turks "accept" that EASA will carry out standardisation visits and will rate the facilities inspected as "fully compliant" or in various degrees, "not compliant", whence the Directorate of Civil Aviation undertakes to act on the reports "in order to redress the identified findings". And, for such "services", the Civil Aviation Authority will be invoiced by EASA.
It is this arrangement or something very similar that UK can expect if it becomes a "Third Country".
Again, something we all want?