Download or read book Draft Civil Aviation Bill written by Great Britain. Department for Transport and published by . This book was released on 2011-11-23 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This document presents for pre-legislative consideration a draft Bill designed to modernise key elements of the regulatory framework for civil aviation in the UK, to enable the sector to make a full contribution to economic growth without compromising high standards. This is established through: (a) reforming the framework for airport economic regulation, which includes replacing the current "one size fits all" approach with a modern licensing regime that puts the protection of passengers' interests at its heart and supports passenger-focused investment in airport facilities; (b) modernising the framework and functions of the regulator - the Civil Aviation Authority - updating its governance and enforcement functions and giving it a role to ensure better consumer information and better public information about the environmental effects of aviation; and (c) transferring certain aviation security functions from the Secretary of State to the CAA as part of wider work to reform aviation security regulation and deliver savings to general taxation. The Secretary of State would, however, remain responsible for aviation security policy and issuing aviation security Directions to the industry. The draft Bill proposes that the costs of regulating the aviation sector should be principally covered by the aviation industry, not general taxation. The policy paper (vol. 1) is accompanied by the draft Bill and explanatory notes (vol. 2), summaries of the impact assessments (vol. 3), and a summary of responses to the previous Government's consultation "Regulating air transport: consultation on proposals to update the regulatory framework for aviation" (vol. 4)