This procedure describes how the Certification Directorate of the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) internally handles Applications for Approval of Alternative Methods of Compliance (AMOC) with Airworthiness Directives (AD) and related tasks.
It details all technical aspects related to the approval of AMOCs with ADs; it excludes the purely administrative aspects as processing the applications from an administrative point of view and determination of fees. The procedure also includes the approval of AMOCs with foreign ADs.