Let’s review some recent statements made by CASA about completion of the regulatory reform, on Mr McCormick’s watch.
July 2012:
CASA will have the remaining new parts of the Civil Aviation Safety Regulations made as law shortly, bringing an effective end to the regulatory reform program.
November 2012. CASA said this in a submission to the Senate Committee Inquiry into the Pel-Air ditching:
5.3.5 CASA is finalising the new Civil Aviation Safety Regulations and expects these will be completed and made by the end of the first quarter 2013.
That’s about 30 working days from now.
January/February 2013 Australian Flying
We’re just about on the home straight at the moment. …
I could say to you that they’ll all be done next year, but it is not practice to make new regulations and have a long delay before they are implemented. So we will make the new regulations and implement them in a sensible and measured way. …
Whether the new regs come in one year or two makes no difference to some companies; …
It is patently obvious that CASA still lacks the corporate competence to fix this regulatory trainwreck this side of the end of the decade, if ever, and still lacks the corporate integrity to be honest about it.