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European Union will review air safety in India in the light of US Federal Aviation Administration down grading India in February. It has sought details of action taken by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation since February before the review in November.
FAA downgraded Indias safety ranking from category-II from -I after an audit revealed deficiencies in regulatory oversight.
FAAs decision can have ramifications and now regulators in Europe are stepping up the heat. Any adverse findings could result into Europe imposing operational restrictions or bans on Indian carriers.
European Commission spokesperson Dale Kidd said EU Air Safety Committee in its March meeting decided to invite the Indian authorities for a meeting in Brussels to discuss aviation safety in India, and to brief about actions being undertaken by them.
"The European Commission and the EU Air Safety Committee will then - following the upcoming meeting in November - assess the situation and decide on the best course of action under the various options in the EU Air Safety List regulation,'' he added.
At present Air India flies to London, Birmingham, Paris, Frankfurt, Milan and Rome. Jet Airways flies to London, Brussels and Paris.
Civil aviation ministry officials however are confident that India will soon be back to category I ranking. FAA is likely to visit India in November for a fresh audit, they said.
FAA, in safety audits conducted in September and December last year, had expressed severe concerns over the lack of full-time flight operations inspectors (FOIs) in the DGCA and had subsequently downgraded India to category II of safety rankings.
The DGCA, under its chief Prabhat Kumar, has been working overtime to fast-track processes and meet requirements pointed out by the FAA.
"The FAA had not indicated how many FOIs we need to have on-board. The norm is to have one for every 10 aircraft. We have hired 56 FOIs, 38 of whom have already joined and are in various stages of the training scheduled. With these recruitments we are more than equipped to carry out safety inspections on scheduled, non-scheduled, general aviation aircraft,'' a DGCA official said.
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Philip Hammond, the Foreign Secretary, and Michael Gove, the chief whip, have both said that they would be prepared to leave Europe if Britain cannot secure the necessary reforms.
Speaking on the Andrew Marr show, Mr Cameron said: "If I thought that it wasn't in Britain's interest to be in the European Union I wouldn't argue for us to be in it.
"I do this job because I Iove my country, I care passionately about its future and I want it to be a strong, proud, self-governing independent nation.
"Yes, working with other European countries on trade and cooperation, maximising our influence in the world. I believe we will get what we want.
"We need to get out of ever-close union, we need proper safeguards of the single market. At the heart of this yes of course there is a right to go and work in other European countries, but it is not an unqualified right. You should not be able to move for benefits or abuse the rules.
"What I believe is right for Britain is to seek reform, get reform and get Britain to vote to stay in a reformed European Union. If people don't like that plan the only way they get to vote to get out of the European Union is if I am Prime Minister.
"If I don't achieve that, it will be for the British public to decide whether to stay in or to get out."
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