**1. Introduction**

Managing safety risks in the Commercial Air Transport System in Europe is achieved by a 5-step 'safety risk managemen<sup>t</sup> process' (as shown in Figure 1), which requires collaborative efforts by European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), National Aviation Authorities of EU member states and—most importantly—all the other stakeholders in the industry.

In order to address the industry-wide risks, EASA annually publishes the following two key documents:


Annual safety reviews include multiple, domain specific 'safety risk portfolios', which are developed based on the analysis of accidents, serious incidents, and other reportable occurrence data. This analysis is further reviewed and assessed by the domain focused 'collaborative analysis groups' (CAGs), which include representatives from the industry. CAGs function is to contribute to the first and second steps in the 'safety risk managemen<sup>t</sup> process', which ultimately aims for the development of the 'European Plan for Aviation Safety' [1] (pp. 15, 16).

**Figure 1.** European Safety Risk Management Process (Annual Safety Review 2019 [1] (p. 21)).
