These regulations are still valid. Safety management systems are valid. The requirements for organizations to abide by the basic criteria are valid. However, the protection provisions that we are seeking now—to further the internal reporting, to get more access to more safety information—will not be enabled. I believe that would make for a system that is not as robust and one that would not provide as much information as we would expect to have in order to go the extra mile to advance safety.
On February 12th, 2007. See this statement in context.