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Business Buzz
TOP NEWS
EASA Proposes
EU-Wide Regulation
on Ground Handling
The European Union Aviation
Safety Agency (EASA) published
a proposal to regulate ground
handling across European Union
airports, to increase the safety,
cybersecurity and consistency of
all the actions that happen on the
ground before and after a flight.
This opinion proposes a regulation
that will affect approximately
300,000 workers in the ground
handling industry. The regulation
will also ensure that ground handling
is covered by Regulation (EU)
2022/1645 on cybersecurity.
" Aviation safety starts on the
ground. This entirely new proposal
fills an important gap in the overall
regulation of aviation operations
in the European Union, which
means that we will now have an
end-to-end approach to ensuring
aviation safety and cybersecurity, "
said EASA acting executive director
Luc Tytgat. " For passengers
and their airlines, this will provide
increased certainty that ground
McCreery Aviation
Completes Stage 3 IS-BAH
Registration Renewal
McCreery Aviation has successfully
renewed its Stage 3 International
Standard for Business Aircraft Handling
(IS-BAH) registration following a
comprehensive safety audit.
In achieving a renewal of a Stage
3 registration, McCreery Aviation
becomes just the third FBO in the U.S.
to accomplish this task. IS-BAH is part
of the International Business Aviation
Council (IBAC). Stage 3 is the highest
level of safety standard established
handling operations are being carried
out safely and consistently in
all major airports across the EASA
Member States. "
The opinion proposes an efficient
approach on the oversight of ground
handling organizations by competent
authorities. This is expected to
avoid multiple verifications of the
same activities and organizational
aspects and gradually reduce the
significant number of audits performed
mostly by aircraft operators.
This way, organizations should
be able to better allocate their
resources from auditing to managing
the safety of their operations.
The new ground handling regulation
would require ground handling
organizations and self-handling
aircraft operators performing commercial
air transport operations
with aircraft to self-declare that
they comply with the EU requirements.
The ground handling regulation
is expected to be published in
late 2024 or early 2025.
by IS-BAH and verifies that safety
management activities are fully integrated
into the operator's business
and that a positive safety culture is
being sustained.
" McCreery Aviation has continued
to demonstrate its positive commitment
to safety as a core value to their
customers. Congratulations to the
entire team at McCreery, they should
be very proud of this achievement and
their drive to promote safer ground
handling operations to the business
aviation community, " said Terry Yeomans,
IS-BAH program director.
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