The new organization will enable the agency to engage more pragmatically with the aviation industry. A strategy and safety management directorate has been created in order to strengthen EASA’s overall strategy and to promote a data driven and performance-based approach to managing safety. All regulatory functions have been integrated across the different aviation domains and more homogeneity has been introduced to better enable the agency to speak with one voice.
Patrick Ky, EASA executive director, declared: “This new organization will reinforce the role of EASA at the centre of the European aviation regulatory system, in partnership with the member states and in support of the growth and development of the aviation industry.”
Aviation is constantly evolving with innovative business models and new technologies in order to achieve greater efficiencies. In turn, authorities are faced with the challenge to be more efficient and flexible to enable further growth for aviation.
The new organization also prepares EASA for new opportunities to enhance its role. These may derive from the ongoing revision of the Agency’s founding regulation that will be finalized in the first quarter of 2015. The organizational chart can be found on EASA’s website.
