EASA is nothing more than a blatant Franco Kraut effort to take over more of everyone's national responsibility.. etc.
Yes, maybe, but the point is, (as you will no doubt realise yourself), they have to be told, subtley or unsubtley.
To see the whole prcoess for what is called 'NPA 2/2004', look
here but I've made it a bit easier bygiving you most of what you need below.
The question is as I stated before, but there is 'background detail' to go with it. This is the background detail
It is recognised that cabin crew shall be subject to essential requirements, but there is no common practice for verifying compliance with them. Some Member Sates issue licences or equivalent attestations or certificates.
Others leave it to air operators to verify that some regulatory requirements are met. It is time now to take a clear position about the way the Community shall regulate this category of workers. An option, taking into account the safety nature of their tasks, would be to attest compliance through the issuing of a licence by national authorities on the basis of common implementing rules. As far as flight dispatchers are concerned, there is also a need to decide whether the Community should create a uniform need for a licence or not.
So, if you want to comment on that, how do you go about it?
Well, there are email submission methods and paper submission methods, but they use 'their' form. There is is a '.doc' document you can download, edit, fill in, and email back to them, BUT in true European wastage traditions it is half a megabyte big - and of course, over 95% of that 'size' is because they had to put their logo on the form. If they'd left it off, even dial-up users would be able to download and send back in a blink.
You can get this particular comment form by clicking on
EASA comment form and either saving it to disk or printing it. (or maybe your browser will allow you to just right-click and either save or print directly from there)
Here's what they say you can then do with it, (even if you have your own ideas!)
Comments on this Notice of Proposed Amendment (NPA) may be forwarded to:
By e-mail: [email protected]
By correspondence: Joint Aviation Authorities
Inge van Opzeeland
NPA Administrator
Box 3000
2130 KA Hoofddorp
Netherlands
Fax: +31 23 56 21714
Comments should be received by the NPA Administrator before 31 July 2004 and if received after this deadline they might not be treated. Comments will not be considered if the form provided for this purpose is not used.
Hope that helps ...