Germany trails European peers in enforcing air-safety rules, report says
Germany is one of Europe’s worst enforcers of air safety rules, trailing only Greece in failing to comply with basic requirements to protect passengers, according to a confidential EASA report. German regulators failed to uphold or enforce EU air safety rules in more than 15 sensitive areas, according to the report, dated March 7. The country had 18 unresolved safety lapses, more than smaller and far less wealthy countries. Recent audits of Germany’s LBA, the country’s equivalent of the US FAA, found the agency faced “a chronic shortage of staff” to monitor aviation activities. EU officials have criticised German aviation oversight a number of times over the past decade. But the EASA report makes clear that many findings of German shortcomings have remained unresolved through successive audits in recent years. <br/>
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Germany trails European peers in enforcing air-safety rules, report says
Germany is one of Europe’s worst enforcers of air safety rules, trailing only Greece in failing to comply with basic requirements to protect passengers, according to a confidential EASA report. German regulators failed to uphold or enforce EU air safety rules in more than 15 sensitive areas, according to the report, dated March 7. The country had 18 unresolved safety lapses, more than smaller and far less wealthy countries. Recent audits of Germany’s LBA, the country’s equivalent of the US FAA, found the agency faced “a chronic shortage of staff” to monitor aviation activities. EU officials have criticised German aviation oversight a number of times over the past decade. But the EASA report makes clear that many findings of German shortcomings have remained unresolved through successive audits in recent years. <br/>
