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Production Organisations Approvals

Production Organisation Approvals (POAs) are managed by EASA in accordance with Subpart G of Regulation (EC) No 1702/2003. The agency is responsible for:

• The management of all applications from non EU countries (or from an EU country upon request of that country) for production organisation approvals (POA).
• The issue of related certificates and their continued surveillance.

Further information on POAs

Relevant legislation

Essential Requirements:
Basic Regulation

• Relevant section of Regulation: Articles 5.2(e), 18(d), 20.2(b)(ii & iii), 20.2(c) 53.1

Implementing Rule:
Initial Airworthiness Regulation

• Relevant section of Regulation: Articles 1(h) & 4.
• Annex to Regulation (EC) No 1702/2003 - (Part 21) Certification of aircraft and related products, parts and appliances, and of design and production organisations
  • Relevant section of Part 21: Subpart G - Production Organisation Approval

Acceptable Means of Compliance (AMC) and Guidance Material (GM)

• ED Decision 2003/1/RM of 17 October 2003 on acceptable means of compliance and guidance material for the airworthiness and environmental certification of aircraft and related products, parts and appliances, as well as for the certification of design and production organisations ("AMC and GM to Part 21")
  

List of Production Organisation Approvals (POA)

• List of all EASA and EU Member State POA approvals in accordance with Part 21 (updated 21/05/2013)

Note: These lists provide specific information about each POA. An explanatory note describing the codes and information used in these lists is available in Explanatory note on POA lists

Working procedures for POAs

ED Decision 2005/01/CF of 25 January 2005 established the Agency's Internal Certification Working Procedures. This decision followed MB Decision 3/2004 of 3 February 2004 of the Management Board concerning the general principles related to the certification procedures to be applied by the Executive Director for issuing of certificates for organisations (referred to by the Agency as the 'OCP Decision').
EASA POA related procedures are integrated into EASA Quality Management System.

Support on POA process

In addition to the essential requirements, their implementing rules and their associated AMC and GM, EASA has developed a user guide with annexes describing the process to apply for an EASA POA and the process to manage an EASA POA.

• UG.POA.00067 User Guide for Production Organisations
• FO.POA.00004-001 POA eligibility evaluation checklist
• FO.POA.00009-001 POA Compliance Checklist
• FO.POA.00015-002 POE compliance checklist

Forms for Production Organisations

The following forms should be completed by applicants seeking Part 21 Subpart G approval, see Application forms page

• EASA Form 50 - Application for Part 21 POA
• EASA Form 4 - Details of Management Personnel to be accepted as specified in Part 21A.145(c)(2)

Note: the purpose of Form 4 is to enable the POA Team Leader to confirm to the applicant the identity of those managers nominated in accordance with Part 21 Subpart G.

• EASA Form 51 - Application for significant changes or variation of scope and terms of Part 21 POA

Fees & Charges for Production Organisation Approvals

The Agency is applying fees for its certification activities since 1 June 2005. Starting with the 1st of June 2007, a new scheme of fees is detailed in the 'Fees & Charges' (Regulation (EC) No 593/2007) which was adopted by the European Commission in the week of 31 March 2007 and published in the EU Official Journal on 1 June 2007.

• See Regulations/Fees & Charges page (relevant section of the Regulation (EC) No 593/2007: Annex, Explanatory note 3, 11 & Table 8 of Part I) .