Some years ago, the UKFSC’s recent Chief Executive, Ed Paintin, discussed in these columns the differences between Quality and Safety, and that should have been the end of the matter. Essentially he stuck to the regulator’s understanding of Quality’s purpose, in other words a small...

The European Union (EU) will introduce the EU-OPS regulations on 16 July 2008. The regulations are derived from and very similar to JAR-OPS 1 , after consultations between the EU and JAA in 1997. EU-OPS is the transposition into EC law of JAR-OPS 1 as specified by Regulation (EC) No 1899/2006 of the...