CASA's Annual Regulatory Plan
It should be noted that CASA is currently undertaking a review of existing Civil Aviation Legislation. This process entails a complete review of the existing Regulations (CAR 1988) and Orders (CAOs) etc, which are being progressively replaced with Civil Aviation Safety Regulations (CASRs), Manual of Standards (MOS) and associated supporting material such as Advisory Circulars (ACs).
Accordingly, CASA's annual regulatory plan has been established and published on the CASA website with all relevant information required by the annual regulatory plan provided by way of links to other areas on the CASA website.
The Annual Regulatory Plan
Each Commonwealth Government agency that has responsibility for business regulation is required to publish an annual regulatory plan on its website early in each financial year outlining recent changes to existing legislation and planned activities that could lead to regulatory change.
The purpose of the annual regulatory plan is to provide business and the community with access to information about recent changes to legislation and proposed regulatory activity. The annual regulatory plan is intended to provide business with the opportunity to take part in the development of changes to legislation which may affect them.
What regulation does an annual regulatory plan cover?
An annual regulatory plan is to cover changes to business regulation. This includes primary legislation, subordinate legislation, quasi-regulation or treaties which directly affect business, or have a significant indirect effect on business, or restrict competition.
An annual regulatory plan would not normally include information about:
- regulations of a minor or machinery nature that do not substantially alter existing arrangements;
- regulations that involve consideration of specific Government purchases;
- regulations of a state or self-governing territory that apply in a non-self governing territory; and
- anticipated activity about which it would be inappropriate to publish information on grounds of confidentiality.
How up-to-date is information in CASA’s annual regulatory plan?
The information relating to CASA's Annual Regulatory Plan is current as at 2 July 2007. Readers should note that the website containing the information required of the annual regulatory plan is periodically updated (generally monthly) to reflect the latest legislative change information/activities.
How to find information/details of CASA's legislative change and regulatory activities
- Recent legislative changes
- Lists all legislative change activities occurring during the period. Also provides an archive of previous years legislative changes/events.
- Select Legislative Instruments and associated supporting material
- Contains the legislative instrument, details of making, registration and commencement and the associated explanatory statement as registered on the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments (FRLI). Look for Civil Aviation Amendment Regulations or Civil Aviation Safety Amendment Regulations by Select Legislative Instrument or Statutory Rule No. and year.
- CASR Part fact sheets
- (Choose the Proposed regs or Change history links) Give an explanation of what the part is about, who it affects, key proposals being considered, consultation requirements, development of associated supporting documents/material (MOS and ACs) and contact details.
- Consultation documents
- Lists the CASA consultation documents by type of document and provides status of previously published consultative documents.
- Regulation Impact Statements (RIS)
- Lists a year-by-year selection of Regulation Impact Statements issued from 1998.
- Regulatory reform recent releases
- Provides all legislative change proposals/activities occurring during the period. Also contains access to an archive of previous year's activities.
- Legislative Change Projects
- Gives details of miscellaneous regulatory change projects being conducted, by aviation activity/category. These include proposed changes to existing legislation (CARs/CAOs), changes to newly made CASRs, as well as amendments to advisory material (CAAPs/ACs).