Transport committee  You raise many points in your question, Mr. Volpe, so if you allow me—

Transport committee  Yes, yes. First of all, again, I made some corrections on delegation, so I'll do it again on partnership. We're not partners with the industry. We work in partnership in certain areas, but we're the regulator of the industry. I think that is a very important point. Secondly, on

Transport committee  Yes, that is correct. There are 190 member states.

Transport committee  Not only do they endorse it, they actually impose it on their member states. All member states must implement SMS now; they must all have started the process in 2009. We are, of course, more advanced than the vast majority, but all member states must implement SMS for internation

Transport committee  I think we are among the leaders now. Other countries--Singapore and Hong Kong, for instance--have implemented SMS as of now; other countries are starting the process and are not as advanced, but we are a member of an international group of leaders helping others to move on faste

Transport committee  That is a very good point, Mr. Jean, and it is what we like to hear from airlines. As safety was the domain of a safety department before, with SMS, safety is the business of everybody in the company. So more people should get engaged and contribute to improving safety in the air

Transport committee  We haven't delayed the business sector per se; we're withdrawing from the delegation we have given. This is not related to SMS per se. On 703 and 704 we're delaying to give more time to fix the problems and issues we have found. We have not made a decision to delay any other sect

Transport committee  The 703 includes all the carriers that use airplanes that carry one to nine passengers, and the 704 carries from 10 to 19 passengers. I don't have the number of carriers, but together they constitute the majority of air carriers in this country. The 705 carries 95% of all the pa

Transport committee  The 702, flying schools, and specialties like air spray types of operations are delayed as well.

Transport committee  What we did before was strictly look at how a company was or was not meeting the regulations. If they didn't meet some regulations, we would give them fines or time to make corrections so that they would meet them. That, in a nutshell, is what we used to do before.

Transport committee  Yes, but we started that change many years ago. The regulations for large air carriers were implemented in 2005. Now all major carriers are under the new regulations. That means that when we go into a company now, not only do we look to see if they meet the regulations, but we me

Transport committee  We're looking at both. Actually, analysis of data will help us focus our inspection activities.

Transport committee  Well, once we get to full staff.... We still have some vacancies. We feel we have what we need now, given the comment that I made earlier today, which was that we believe we need more than what is in the A-base budget for civil aviation, but the department has given us this addit

Transport committee  Our original timeline was 2015. This is still the advertised date, but we want to iron out all the difficulties before we progress. For instance, we have now delayed implementing SMS for at least a year in certain areas, such as the smaller carriers. For now, SMS is a regulation

Transport committee  With the small carriers, first of all, it's the number. While we have a limited number of large air carriers, we have a very large number of smaller carriers. For smaller carriers we have to clarify, as your colleague mentioned before, and we have to tailor the SMS regulation to