ABSTRACT

This chapter points to groups of legal acts that will be upset by Brexit. In most cases, the impact of Brexit will mean that specific pieces of law will cease to apply to and/or in the UK, to UK-EU relations or to UK-third party relations. The EU primary law comprises several international agreements of which the main two, known as the founding treaties, are the Treaty on the European Union and the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU). Although the fundamental principles of EU transport policy arise from the TFEU, the core of EU air law consists in derived law, also known as the acquis communautaire, including hundreds of regulations and directives constituting the European single air market. There are several groups of bilateral air services agreements concluded by the EU member states with third parties that will be affected by Brexit. Brexit will have impact on a number of agreements concerning aviation safety and security.