Safety Recommendations Addressed to EASA

26 March 2009 Budapest Bernard Bourdon &Zsófia Oláh

Safety Recommendations Addressed to EASA

BERNARD BOURDONAccident Investigation Manager

ZSÓFIA OLÁHSafety Recommendations Officer

26 March 2009 Safety Recommendations Addressed to EASA Slide 2

European Aviation Safety Agency

EASA

Establishment in 2002

Operating since 2003

LocationSince 3rd November 2004 Cologne



FIN

IS

EE

MD

CY

FR

LV

LT

BE

NL

DE

UK

IR

RO

ALMK

BG

EL

CH

IT

AHU

SB

EP

DK

NO SE

PL

CZ

MT

BA

LSK

SI CR

MC

RU

EASA Member States EU 27 + 4



EASA Remit

Based on the Basic Regulation (EC) No 216/2008

Safety regulator, certification authority & advisory body

Mission: to set & maintain the highest common safety & environmental

standards

Method: part of the EU system with the EC and in partnership with the NAAs



Guidance Material

Part 21

Regulation (EC) 2042/2003on Continuing Airworthiness

Annex I (Part-M):Continuing Airworthiness Requirements

Annex II (Part-145): Maintenance Organisation Approvals

Annex III (Part-66):Certifying Staff

Annex IV (Part-147):Training Organisation Requirements

Annex (Part 21)

Section A: Technical Requirements

Section B: administrative Procedures

CertificationSpecifications

AMC 20AMC 21CS 25CS 34CS 36CS ECS PCS APU

CS 22CS 23CS 27CS 29CS VLACS VLR

CS AWOCS ETSOCS Definitions

Section A: Application Requirements

Section B: Administrative Procedures

Appendices: EASA forms Appendices: EASA forms

Basic RegulationRegulation (EC) No 216/2008 of 20 February 2008

EASA

European Commission

Parliament and Council

AgencyOpinion

AgencyOpinion

Regulation (EC) 1702/2003 on Airworthiness and Environmental Certification

AgencyCS ,

AMC & GM

Annex I : Essential Requirements for Airworthiness

Annex II : Excluded Aircraft

AMC & Guidance Material

Part M, 145,66,147

Rulemaking in EASA context



EASA competency



EASA Structure



Certification

Type-certification of parts, products and appliancesInitial airworthinessContinuing airworthinessTasks contracted out to NAAs



Rulemaking

Assistance to the European Commission in drafting new legislationElaboration and adoption of Agency soft lawsCo-operation in the setting of international standards



Quality and standardisation

Assistance to the European Commission in overseeing harmonized application of European legislation in Member States (inspections)Approval of Design OrganisationsFor non-EU countries: Approval of Production and Maintenance Organisations Internal quality controlTraining



Safety Analysis

Safety Analysis: Conducts studies and provides reports concerning the safety of European and world-wide aviationAnnual Safety ReviewSupporting safety policyBuilding dependable repositoriesSupporting an ECCAIRS repository @ JRC



ESSIEuropean Strategic Safety Initiative

COORDINATION GROUP

ECASTCOMMERCIAL AVIATION

SAFETY TEAM

EHESTHELICOPTER SAFETY

TEAM

EGASTGENERAL AVIATION

SAFETY TEAM

EASA Rulemaking Activities

Coordination with

IHST

ESSI Update August 08

CAST FAA’sGASC



Research

Based on the BRDevelop and finance researchCoordinate research activitiesPublish results

Two fieldsShort term

Defined and financed by the Agency primarily for rulemaking support

Long term Financed by EU framework or national research programs



Accident Investigation Unit

Two SectionsAccident Investigation

Coordination between the Agency and the AIBs Collecting facts from ongoing investigations Follow up of ongoing accident investigations

Safety Recommendations Administration of SRs addressed to the Agency Coordination of replies within the Agency Provide statistics on progress on SRs

Participation in safety studies and research projects

Follow up and coordinationProviding input

Idendify safety deficiences & disseminate related information



The owner of boats for hire shouts at the waterfront:

Boat number nine, your time is up, row back!

His assistant warns him:But we only have eight boats.Oh, my God! Do you have any problems, boat number six?



ECCAIRSDatabase

(JRC central repository)

SafetyRecommendations

Database

Two separate systems linked by a n:n relation

Safety analysis

Thematic search by• Descriptive factor

• Explanatory factor

• Text search / field

Notification

Updates

Reports

Process & reply to

Safety Recommendations

Accident investigation:The European database



Final SRs per year

19

43 44

54 57

0

10

20

30

40

50

60

2004 2005 2006 2007 2008

Year



Final SRs addressed to EASA

Safety recommendations Received - Replied - Closed v. Time

0

50

100

150

200

250

300

15/09/01

17/03/02

16/09/02

18/03/03

17/09/03

18/03/04

17/09/04

19/03/05

18/09/05

20/03/06

19/09/06

21/03/07

20/09/07

21/03/08

20/09/08

22/03/09

received replied closed



Process of SRs

Allocation to a unitE2 – Safety Analysis & Research

for safety studies and research projects related to Safety Recommendations follow-up

R – Product Safety rules and specifications for the initial and continuing

airworthiness

R – Flight Standard rules for the flight crew licensing and air operations



Process of SRs (2)

Certification Directorate (C) concentrates all certification tasks, consisting of type

certification and continued airworthiness of products, parts and appliances; as well as the environmental approval of products

C – Large Aeroplanes C – General Aviation C – Rotorcraft, balloons, airships C – Propulsion C – Flight Standards C – Experts section



Process of SRs (3)

Approvals and Standardisation Directorate (S)

performs inspections, training and standardisation programmes to ensure uniform implementation of European aviation safety legislation in all Member States. It also deals with design organisations and, as appropriate, production organisations approval; foreign organisations approval; and coordinates the European Community programme SAFA (Safety Assessment of Foreign Aircraft) regarding the safety of foreign aircraft using Community airports

S – Organizations S – SAFA coordination S - Standardisation



Thematic distribution of final SRs in 2008

C - Experts Section 2%

S - Standardisation 2%

C - Flight Standards 4%

C - General Aviation 12%

C - Large Aeroplanes 27%

C - Propulsion 4%

C - Rotorcraft, Balloons, Airships

12%

E - Safety Analysis & Research Department

4%

R - Flight Standards 16%

R - Product Safety 17%



Process of SRs (4)

Providing repliesDuring the review of the Final Safety Recommendations, EASA classifies them in a systematic way, using the definitions of classification categories Agreement: Safety recommendation for which the safety concern is agreed

by the addressee and subsequent action is planned or implemented Partial agreement: Safety recommendation considered relevant by the

addressee but not applicable and for which a safety issue has been recognized and new orientation has been given to the recommended action.

Disagreement: Safety recommendation considered not relevant or not applicable by the addressee

No longer applicable: Safety recommendation has been superseded or has become no longer applicable.

Not Responsible Safety recommendation wrongly allocated or not in the scope of responsibility of the addressee. SR has been issued to an erroneous addressee.

More information required: Safety recommendation for which more information is required by the addressee before any action initiated. Additional information should be sent by the originator.

Unknown: Safety recommendation which was issued before any tracking implementation status and for which insufficient information to assign any other status has been received.



Categories of replies

Chart 4: Categories of replies to Final safety recommendations in 2008

Agreement; 26; 50%

Disagreement; 13; 25%

Not Responsible; 2; 4%

Partial Agreement; 11;

21%



Process of SRs (5)

ConclusionsTo be determined/UnknownAirworthiness Directive/Add-Modify Rule-DirectiveRule Change/Add-Modify Rule-DirectiveTraining Issue/TrainingStandardisation Issue/Compliance with procedure-ruleNoneSafety Information Notice/InformationStudyInspectionAdd-Modify ProcedureNot Responsible



Concluding actions

Rule Change/Add-Modify Rule

30%

Not Responsible2%

None27%

Inspection12%

Airworthiness Directive/Add- Modify Directive

15%Study2%

Standardisation Issue/Compliance withprocedure-rule

2%

Safety Information Notice/Information

10%



Contact details

Executive DirectorateSafety Analysis & Research Department:

InvestigationsCommunications related to ongoing [email protected]

Safety RecommendationsCommunications related to safety [email protected]

EASAOttoplatz 1D-50679 Köln PO Box 101253D-50452 Köln, GermanyTel: 49-221-89990000

Documents

Safety Recommendations Addressed to EASA