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Old 18th Oct 2008, 16:57
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It is currently known that EASA is planning to revisit the subject of the "private use IR" over the coming years.

Nothing else is actually happening on the IR front.

Sadly, confidentiality is vital in all these things, whether one likes it or not. Otherwise, overt and covert lobbying (by industry or whatever the stakeholders are) would scupper any work you are trying to do - because practically every change is not going to be liked by somebody. The committee members are generally known and pressure would be applied to them directly, to affect their voting.

The official pretence (at EASA and everywhere else) that direct lobbying of the legislative bodies is ineffective and that due process must be followed. Obviously this is nonsense because the whole process is wrapped up in politics, but they at least try to protect the low level committees so they can prepare proposals of some sort.

Another, less charitable, reason for confidentiality is that if a certain representative body fails to achieve anything whatsoever (or even votes in the complete opposite way, because they traded votes with somebody else in exchange for support on some other issue) no blame can be attached for the "failure". Vote trading does go on on these committees - just like in Planning Committees
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