Consultation on CAA Exemptions Policy in support of Basic Regulation Article 71 amendment (UK Regulation (EU) 2018/1139)

Throughout the process for developing policy, the CAA will continue to have regard to relevant considerations and legal duties.

To assist us in having regard to these relevant considerations, in addition to comments on the specific proposals themselves, we invite stakeholders to describe the impacts that they perceive the proposal may have on six specific areas:

Safety. What impact might the proposal have on safety?

Efficiency. What impact might the proposal have on the efficiency of the ATM system, either locally or nationally?

Financial. What financial impact might the proposal have? Will implementation have a financial cost?

Security. What impact might the proposal have on aviation security?

Environmental. What impact might the proposal have on the environment; for example, through increased fuel burn, increased CO₂ emissions?

Equality. Do you consider that this proposal may disadvantage people who have one or more of the following protected characteristics: age; disability; gender reassignment; marriage and civil partnership; pregnancy and maternity; race; religion and belief; sex and sexual orientation.

Stakeholders are invited to state the impact that they consider the proposal will have on each of these six specific areas from one of four options:

• Positive impact;
• Negligible impact – should be used where there is an impact, either positive or negative, but where its’ impact is considered too small to be worth taking into account;
• No impact;
• Negative impact.

We encourage stakeholders to provide reasoning and information to support any comments made about impacts.

For each of the six specific areas, select the type of impact that you consider the proposal could reasonably have. Please provide details.