The CAA is about to acquire powers it has never had. Businesses in regulated sectors need to understand what changes when a regulator stops asking courts for help and starts acting itself. For most of its existence, the Civil Aviation Authority has been a regulator that could advise, cajole, refer and complain - but not directly punish. When airlines fell short of their obligations to passengers, the CAA's route to enforcement ran through the courts. It was slow, uncertain, a

Insights The EU Industrial Accelerator Act (IAA) is a Commission proposal published in March 2026, establishing a framework to accelerate industrial capacity and decarbonisation in strategic sectors. Its headline ambition is to restore manufacturing's share of EU GDP to 20% by 2035. The Act integrates industrial policy, climate ambition and economic-security tools into a single regulatory package - the most comprehensive intervention in EU industrial policy since the Single

DT Economics welcomes David Vincent as Senior Advisor. David is an econometrician and economic consultant with 23 years of experience in econometric modelling for damages assessment and counterfactual analysis, and an MSc with distinction from the University of Southampton. He has worked at Deloitte, Ernst & Young and HP Consulting, and is a member of the UK Stata Conference Scientific Committee. His expertise in cost efficiency modelling for regulated industries is directly