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Commenting the second week of divorce talks with EU representatives on Sky News, shadow trade minister Gardiner said the UK negotiating team needs to show clarity on whether the country will continue to pay in certain EU agencies.

He was adamant about continued membership of the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) which overseas civilian aviation safety and includes all 28 countries of the EU plus Norway, Iceland, Switzerland and Liechtenstein.

The leasing agreements for all for all the aircraft that take off in the UK stipulate within them that after certain hours of flight time they have to then be serviced within the EU.

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That would mean that those airplanes cannot be serviced within the UK. Somebody this morning at the stock exchange spoke of that as being a death spiral for our aviation industry.

Gardiner said that the UK ought consider continuing paying into EASA to avoid major disruption after Brexit.

The shadow International Trade minister argued that the Governments stance remains unclear and it should sort out the principles of the divorce to cut out future complications.

We need very quickly to be discussing the substantive agreement between ourselves and the European Union post Brexit.

Gardiners statement follows the announcement that easyJet decided to establish its new headquarters outside of the UK following the official divorce in order to maintain its European Air Operator Certificate (AOC).

The licence will allow the company to fly its planes in the EU after Britain leaves the bloc and steer away from additional costs or regulations.

An easyJet spokesperson said the group recognised the importance of aviation for all countries of Europe and confirmed nothing will change.

"We have had positive discussions with the UK and European Governments and the EU on this, and it is a position which is supported by other major European airlines."

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