The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) is inviting stakeholders from both manned and unmanned aviation to participate in an initial public consultation process to influence the specific design of the legal framework for the safe use of AI technology in all aspects of aviation operations.
As part of EASA’s AI programme, the agency has launched a new Notice of Proposed Amendment (NPA) 2025-07 to provide the industry with technical guidance on how to set the ‘AI trustworthiness’ in line with requirements for high-risk AI systems that are contained in the EU AI Act (Regulation (EU) 2024/1689). The NPA is now open for public consultation for three months.
The publication is the first step of Rulemaking task (RMT) 0742 that will be followed by a second NPA in 2026 to deploy this generic framework to the regulations of the relevant aviation domains.
EASA says the publication will help the aviation community to prepare for the future requirements for AI-based assistance (Level1 AI) and Human-AI teaming (Level2 AI). It addresses guidance on AI assurance, human factors and ethics as well as covering data-driven AI-based systems (supervised and unsupervised machine learning). The framework will be extended in the future to reinforcement learning, knowledge-based technologies, hybrid and generative AI systems.
The Association for Unmanned Aviation (UAV DACH), which notified members of the unmanned aviation community about EASA’s consultation, notes that AI plays a crucial role with regard to the future of aviation “not least when it comes to the future digitalisation of airspace and the equal coexistence of manned and unmanned aircraft”.
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