28 January 2025: The European Plan for Aviation Safety (EPAS) outlines strategic priorities for aviation safety and environmental protection, primary safety risks and necessary measures to mitigate them. As the regional aviation safety plan for EASA Member States, it reinforces safety management at regional, state and industry levels. The 2025 edition was published on 21 January. 

Based on the validated strategic priorities for 2023–25, the 2025 EPAS includes the EPAS actions (Volume II) and the safety risk portfolios (Volume III).

Volume III, safety risk portfolios, provides an updated overview of safety issues in the European aviation system. Through annual safety risk management, collaborating with safety partners, the issues were reviewed and reassessed.

The 2025 edition includes 211 safety issues, with 20 higher-risk issues, including 8 new ones, categorised by risk level.

Volume II, EPAS actions, outlines the updated plan for ongoing and new tasks. After completing 15 actions in 2024, the plan now includes 150 actions, with 6 new ones. It also includes updated timelines from EASA’s review of the entire rulemaking program to prioritise safety and adjust planning to resources.

EASA has decided to maintain the current number of ongoing rulemaking tasks in this year’s EPAS. The planning aligns with strategic priorities for 2023–25 but also sets the roadmap for 2025 and beyond.

Several new tasks are introduced in Volume II, Actions:

• Updating aerodrome surroundings protection regulations.
• Introducing noise requirements for VTOL aircraft.
• Including a continuous integrity verification program design requirement for helicopters.
• Enhancing civil aviation information repository.
• Improving airspace requirements.
• Establishing information security framework.
• Supporting ground handling regulation implementation.

EASA will review strategic priorities for 2025 to update the next EPAS Volume I reference period 2026-28, resulting in an update to the 2026 EPAS Volume II.

To access the latest editions of the EPAS, please see here [1]