Bernard Bourdon

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Safety Recommendations Addressed to EASA

• BERNARD BOURDON
• Accident Investigation Manager
• ZSÓFIA OLÁH
• Safety Recommendations Officer

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EASA

• Establishment in 2002
• Operating since 2003
• Location
• Since 3rd November 2004 Cologne

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• EASA Member States
• EU 27 4

IS
FIN
SE
NO
EE
LV
DK
LT
RU
IR
UK
PL
NL
BE
DE
CZ
L
SK
MD
A
HU
FR
CH
RO
SI
CR
BA
SB
BG
MC
IT
E
P
MK
AL
EL
CY
MT
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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

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Rulemaking in EASA context
Agency Opinion
Annex I Essential Requirements for
Airworthiness Annex II Excluded Aircraft
Basic Regulation Regulation (EC) No 216/2008 of
20 February 2008
Regulation (EC) 2042/2003 on Continuing
Airworthiness
Agency Opinion
Regulation (EC) 1702/2003 on Airworthiness and
Environmental Certification
Annex I (Part-M) Continuing Airworthiness
Requirements
Section A Technical Requirements
Section A Application Requirements
Annex (Part 21)
Section B administrative Procedures
Section B Administrative Procedures
Annex II (Part-145) Maintenance Organisation
Approvals
Appendices EASA forms
Appendices EASA forms
Annex III (Part-66) Certifying Staff
Annex IV (Part-147) Training Organisation
Requirements
Certification Specifications
Agency CS , AMC GM
AMC Guidance Material Part M, 145,66,147
Guidance Material Part 21
AMC 20 AMC 21 CS 25 CS 34 CS 36 CS E CS P CS APU
CS 22 CS 23 CS 27 CS 29 CS VLA CS VLR
CS AWO CS ETSO CS Definitions
Parliament and Council
European Commission
EASA
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EASA competency
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EASA Structure
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Certification

• Type-certification of parts, products and
  appliances
• Initial airworthiness
• Continuing airworthiness
• Tasks contracted out to NAAs

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Rulemaking

• Assistance to the European Commission in drafting
  new legislation
• Elaboration and adoption of Agency soft laws
• Co-operation in the setting of international
  standards

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Quality and standardisation

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

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Safety Analysis

• Safety Analysis Conducts studies and provides
  reports concerning the safety of European and
  world-wide aviation
• Annual Safety Review
• Supporting safety policy
• Building dependable repositories
• Supporting an ECCAIRS repository _at_ JRC

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ESSI Update August 08
ESSI European Strategic Safety Initiative COORDINA
TION GROUP
EASA Rulemaking Activities
Coordination with
ECAST COMMERCIAL AVIATION SAFETY TEAM
CAST
EHEST HELICOPTER SAFETY TEAM
EGAST GENERAL AVIATIONSAFETY TEAM
IHST
FAAs GASC
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Research

• Based on the BR
• Develop and finance research
• Coordinate research activities
• Publish results
• Two fields
• Short term
• Defined and financed by the Agency primarily for
  rulemaking support
• Long term
• Financed by EU framework or national research
  programs

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Accident Investigation Unit

• Two Sections
• Accident 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 coordination
• Providing input
• Idendify safety deficiences disseminate related
  information

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• 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?

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Accident investigationThe European database

• Two separate systems linked by a nn relation

SafetyRecommendations Database
ECCAIRS Database (JRC central repository)
Process reply to Safety Recommendations
Notification Updates Reports

• Safety analysis
• Thematic search by
• Descriptive factor
• Explanatory factor
• Text search / field

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Final SRs per year
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Final SRs addressed to EASA
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Process of SRs

• Allocation to a unit
• E2 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

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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

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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

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Thematic distribution of final SRs in 2008
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Process of SRs (4)

• Providing replies
• During 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.

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Categories of replies
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Process of SRs (5)

• Conclusions
• To be determined/Unknown
• Airworthiness Directive/Add-Modify Rule-Directive
• Rule Change/Add-Modify Rule-Directive
• Training Issue/Training
• Standardisation Issue/Compliance with
  procedure-rule
• None
• Safety Information Notice/Information
• Study
• Inspection
• Add-Modify Procedure
• Not Responsible

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Concluding actions
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Contact details
Executive Directorate Safety Analysis Research
Department Investigations Communications
related to ongoing investigations investigation_at_ea
sa.europa.eu Safety Recommendations Communicatio
ns related to safety recommendations recommendatio
ns_at_easa.europa.eu
EASA Ottoplatz 1D-50679 Köln PO Box
101253D-50452 Köln, Germany Tel [phone]