Now hang on a sec!
The Agency hasn't even been set up yet and you're already bashing it as inefficient. It's being set up to counteract the ineffectivness of the JAA in terms of getting JAR's to be implemented at the same the time in all the JAA Member States.. . . .EASA would be an EU body, if I've understood matters correctly. The end result would be that new or revised Regulations would be binding upon all EU Member States at the same time, hence avoiding the current situation of JARs being implemented at different times in the JAA Member States, with different interpretations. Surely this would make things more effective and increase legal certainty for . .a.) flight crew, engineers etc. . .b.) for the operators.
And if I might venture as far as to say that perhaps some of the future civil servants of EASA would try to do a good job, taking the interests of all parties involved into account.
Cosmo