Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 10 July 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

General Scheme of the Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2019: Discussion

Mr. Ronan Gallagher:

Yes, and this report includes that, so I hope there will be a little more clarity. I will say two things about this. We are in line with other countries, but we do not want to get into the language of being competitive as a regulatory body. It should not be about that. It should be about standards. There is a concern, looking across Europe, that European airlines are able to register their planes in any member state. What we need to avoid as a collective of member states is regulatory shopping, that is, racing one another to the bottom. We are mindful of this and of keeping the standards consistent across the EU. We have common laws. The airlines are entitled to push back but not to the point where they are playing one regulator off the other.

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