Press Release: Aviation: Commission proposes new rules to prevent aircraft accidents

The European Commission has proposed new rules for the better protection of air passengers, aiming to achieve a decreased number of aircraft accidents and fatalities through better use of data on occurrences. An occurrence is any type of event significant in the context of aviation safety which might or might not have resulted in an actual accident but which merits being collected and analysed. In addition, the new rules would promote more efficient exchange of information between Member States.

This legislative proposal is the core element of the future European aviation safety system which aims to shift Europe towards a proactive and evidence-based safety system, i.e. a system that attempts to foresee and prevent accidents based on the collection and analysis of data, rather than simply reacting after accidents.

• Primary Source

European Commission: MEMO/12/1008: Occurrence reporting in civil aviation http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_MEMO-12-1008_en.htm

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