At the 21st EACSG meeting, Manuel Rivas Vila took over as Chairperson and will lead the group in the future, while EUROCAE will continue to act as Secretary of the EASCG.
Christian Schleifer, who had chaired EASCG since its creation in 2015, thanked the group for their confidence and support over the last years, making the EASCG a well-known platform and the RDP a recognised source used by all stakeholders.
The handover was prepared and agreed between the European Commission, EASA and EUROCAE to make EASA more dominant in the group and bring the regulator and the SDOs even closer together. Christian Schleifer said “this brings the EASCG on its next level and shows the importance of such a group, which has very well served the community over five years and is still the one forum to ensure a seamless transition between R&D to industrialisation and therefore in particular the standardisation and regulation part and finally allow a successful deployment of SESAR projects.”