Originally Posted by
CaptainSensible
Any information on the make up of the Lobby group and the Airlines behind it. The whole exercise, ie a mirror image of the campaign fought by the respective pilot groups, but for the aviation industry must have cost something and have been funded by someone?
Not necessarily. From the EC viewpoint the UK CAA regulations are an anachronism as they are not EU Standard. Everyone has to have precisely the same standards - no ifs buts or maybes. So minor minion bureaucrat gets all the standards and with a weighting for those from EC 'friendly' countries comes up with a EU wide standard. No thought will be given to what that actually means to pilots, it is an
EU Wide standard so it
must be better than individual state standards. This is then agreed in a bureaucrat back room and delivered as a
fait-acompli to a technical committee, regardless of their vote the proposal goes to the MEPs to vote; if they vote yes the bureaucrats win if they vote no the bureaucrats reverse the decision and the bureaucrats win.
The EU parliament is an expensive camouflage behind with the EC runs Europe.