I happened to be watching Prime Minister's Questions this afternoon, due to the unfriendly weather and thought I heard him say this. Had a look on Hansard this evening and indeed he did.
The Prime Minister: I am a little more optimistic than my hon. Friend. On the bail-out power that the last Government gave away, we are returning it to the United Kingdom via the European stability mechanism treaty, so we have returned a power. More recently, we have just won an exemption from all EU legislation to make sure that from January 2012 micro-enterprises will not face any new EU regulation at all.
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I believe that the definition of micro-enterprise is having less than 10 employees. This would probably include most flying schools that are RFs, rather than the bigger FTOs, it would also encompass the smaller CAMOs/MOs.
To those of you on here who are much better informed on / more involved in all things EASA, is this a genuine reason to be hopeful?