Well, okay mate, but please feel free to tell me why a "Aviation Safety Action Program" shouldn't be identified with "as soon as possible"? I figure you're only trying to hijack the issue so, to get this topic back ON TOPIC, I reckon that the initiating post has implications for safety reporting programs all over the world.
Gee, thanks to those American lawyers to whom we owe every other bit of idiotic litigation in the last 20 years! If it wasn't for Boeing aircraft, I'm sure that someone would've nuked all the American lawyers years ago.