The ‘final record’ of the SCC’s 27 July 07 meeting was finally published on 11 January 2008:
http://www.casa.gov.au/newrules/scc/...C27_record.pdf
Executive summary: lots of activity and little productivity, as usual.
I note that:
- the ‘SCC efficiency’ action item has been airbrushed out of history
- the drafter of the minutes has the grammatical skills of a Year 10 dropout – perhaps a pilot drafted them.
- CEO Directive 16/2004 “had recently [back then] been repealed and replaced with CEO Directive 1/2007 which included ‘provisions to ensure unnecessary cost burden is not placed on industry, as well as greater harmonisation with international standards’”.
No doubt there will have to be a complete review of the ‘new’ and ‘developing’ regulations, to make sure they comply with the 2007 directive rather than the 2004 directive. (Doesn’t time fly? The poor buggers only had a couple of years to complete the 1998 regulations in accordance with the 2004 directive, and now there’s a new, superseding directive.)
Perhaps a program of training on what the new directive means is in order.
Even better: Australia should produce some 2008 regulations which, in conjunction with the existing 1998 and 1988 regulations, plus Civil Aviation Orders, will constitute world’s bestest-practice, harmonisedest, simplest, clearest, cheapest-to-implement-and-comply-with rules ever! In other words, Australia should produce a mess that looks like a freight train full of dog food that’s hit a herd of camels at high speed!
Go Australia! Go!