Rolls gets German passport for jet engine designs ahead of Brexit

Britain's Rolls-Royce has effectively moved the home for its best-known jet engine designs to Germany to avoid regulatory delays or sales disruption after Britain's EU exit. Rolls said relocating the design approval process was a purely technical move and would not involve transferring jobs. Officials say the move will make it easier for Rolls to continue to sell engines outside Europe following Brexit, which would otherwise have depended on new regulatory deals being struck between Britain and the nations of many airlines. Aircraft safety and the design approvals process are among issues that Britain and the EU have yet to settle. EASA said in a filing that it had now formally approved the request. "Rolls-Royce has become in terms of conception a German organisation, so belonging to the EU," <br/>