Air Traffic Management and Unmanned Aircraft Act 2021 Part 1: Enforcement Guidance and Statement of Policy on Penalties

Part 1 of The Air Traffic Management and Unmanned Aircraft Act 2021 gave the CAA new roles and powers in relation to the Secretary of State’s powers to give a direction to “a person involved in airspace change” requiring them to progress or co-operate in an airspace change where doing so will assist in the delivery of the CAA’s Airspace Modernisation Strategy.

This document sets out:
• the CAA’s advisory role regarding the use of the direction powers
• policy and guidance regarding the CAA’s enforcement powers where a direction has been issued, and
• a Statement of Policy on imposing penalties and determining their amount where a requirement in an enforcement order has been contravened.