The EU SAFA Programme Federico GRANDINI SAFA Coordination Officer 2nd SAFA Regulators and Industry Forum Cologne, 25 October 2012
The EU SAFA Programme SAFA Directive 2004/36/CE (applicable 30/04/2006) Introducing legal obligations upon EU MS: to inspect third- country aircraft to participate to the possibility to landing at their the collection inspect aircraft airports and exchange of information • involved in non- • A/C involved in commercial on the ramp commercial operation <5700KG • A/C > 5700 KG inspections • from other EU MS involved in non- results commercial OPS • Helicopter operation SAFA transferred to Commission and EASA as of 01/01/2007 => Commission Regulation (EC) No 768/2006 25/10/2012 2nd SAFA Regulators and Industry Forum, Cologne 2
Principles SAFA Programme Linked to ICAO (compliance with ICAO Standards / complementary to ICAO USOAP) Bottom-up approach A single set of procedures for the performance of the ramp inspections A single tool (centralised SAFA Database) A single syllabus for training and qualification of inspectors Standardisation – ensuring long term data quality improvements Prioritisation: a tool to make SAFA more effective 3
Member/Participating/Candidate States SAFA Participating (42) and Candidate (2*) Armenia Croatia FYROM Albania States Bosnia & Herzegovina Moldova Monaco Turkey Azerbaijan Serbia Ukraine Georgia Montenegro(*) Morocco(*) Norway Iceland Switzerland EASA Austria Belgium Cyprus Estonia Czech Rep. Denmark Finland (27+3+1) Latvia France Germany Greece Lithuania Hungary Ireland Italy Bulgaria EU (Lichtenstein) Luxembourg Malta Netherlands (27) Poland Slovak Rep. Slovenia Portugal Sweden United Kingdom Spain Romania 4
Annual Aggregated Report 2011 General Indicators 11,262 Inspections (<3.77%) Performed by 41 (of 42) Participating states … on 321 aerodromes … on 6,264 different aircraft registrations … of 204 types and variants … operated by more than 1,050 operators … from 137 States and territories ... Identified 11,019 findings (>5.97%) 2nd SAFA Regulators and Industry Forum, Cologne
Inspections 1996-2011 25/10/2012 2nd SAFA Regulators and Industry Forum, Cologne 6
Findings/Inspections ratio 25/10/2012 2nd SAFA Regulators and Industry Forum, Cologne 7 "
Aggregated Report - 2011 Config. Inspections Findings Percentage F/I Combi 16 19 0.14% 1.19 Cargo 883 1099 7.84% 1.24 Pax 10 363 10 552 92.02% 1.02 Inspections on Inspections on EU Operators non-EU Operators 2011 5 593 (49.7%) 5 669 (50.3%) Operators 570 534
Ongoing developments – new IRs Implementing Rules to EASA’s Basic Regulation – Ramp Inspections The scope established by the IR is wider than under the SAFA Directive: all aircraft subject to EASA’s Basic Regulation used by TCO as well as EU operators (both commercial and non-commercial) are included New Rulemaking task: the existing EASA SAFA Guidance Material on qualification of ramp inspectors and on ramp inspections shall be: • transferred to new AMCs and GMs (Q2 2013), and • complemented as regards the performance of ramp inspections on EU operators (SACA, Q2 2013) and the approval of SAFA training organisations (Q2 2014) 9
Ongoing developments – new IRs Part ARO-Subpart RAMP – new elements: RI Programme based on calculation methodology and on safety risk Mandatory inspections on EU operators (SACA) Use of EU standards for EU operators (SACA) A minimum number of points per State is fixed Quantitative prioritisation: extra points are granted for: minimum annual proportion Priority inspections • for each Member State Remote airports • Odd hours • Rarely inspected operators • 10
Ongoing developments – new IRs Implementing Rules to EASA’s Basic Regulation – Ramp Inspections The SAFA Directive will be repealed as As a result, it is soon as the The SAFA necessary to Implementing transpose its legislative Rules to EASA’s framework will provisions in the Basic Regulation change => GM will context of the new will enter into lose its legal basis Implementing force Rules (28/10/2012) 11
“OPS - 087” timeline Publication Publication Publication Opinion (IRs Publication AMC/GM NPA: Q4 for approval AMC/GM: Q4 (Approval of 2012 SAFA TO): 2013 SAFA TO): Q4 2013 Q4 2014 12
OPS-087 – Rulemaking procedure 13
Guidance Material Developed in Qualification of SAFA Ramp GM is public and application of the Inspectors Inspections available on EASA provisions of the 29/09/2008 V1:22/07/2009 website for maximum SAFA Directive as transparency V2:27/07/2012 amended by Future AMC/GM in Commission Directive the framework of the 2008/49/EC new Irs: Q4 2013 14
SAFA Ramp Inspections GM – V2 Review necessary following: Latest amendments to ICAO • SARPs Comments received from Adopted 27 July 2012 • participating countries Feedback from EASA • standardisation audits Experience gained on the field • after several years of successful implementation of the EU SAFA Programme in the Participating Review of the Pre-Described States Findings (PDFs) has led to: New PDFs • Reworked PDFs • Deleted PDFs • 15
SAFA Ramp Inspections GM – V2 4. SAFA Findings – 4.1 General: …… 25/10/2012 2nd SAFA Regulators and Industry Forum, Cologne 16
SAFA Ramp Inspections GM – V2 4.2 Detection/reporting/assessment of significant technical defects: …… 25/10/2012 2nd SAFA Regulators and Industry Forum, Cologne 17
SAFA Ramp Inspections GM – V2 25/10/2012 2nd SAFA Regulators and Industry Forum, Cologne 18
SAFA Ramp Inspections GM – V2 6.2 Further follow-up – 6.2.1 Class 2 actions: 25/10/2012 2nd SAFA Regulators and Industry Forum, Cologne 19
Other important topics Assessment of findings on certificates and licences prior to categorisation Guidance is provided in Inspecting Instructions of all relevant items: A08 Certificate of Registration A10 AOC (or equivalent) A11 Radio Licence A12 Certificate of Airworthiness A20 Flight Crew Licence Obvious defects Significant technical defects 25/10/2012 2nd SAFA Regulators and Industry Forum, Cologne 20
A01 – Inspecting instructions More guidance on door area monitoring: 25/10/2012 2nd SAFA Regulators and Industry Forum, Cologne 21
Centralised SAFA database Access for SAFA NEW – Access for Web based Participating operators as well as application States: non-SAFA NAAs: • New version since • inclusion of • retrieve data, September 2011 reports limited to their own reports • Access granted • retrieve data to Guest NAAs • add follow-up • respond to and to operators information on uploaded follow-up actions taken information 22
Database statistics Total number of approved users: 1980 Member State NAA users: 513 (58 coordinators) Associated State NAA users: 91 (21 coordinators) Candidate State NAA users: 3 (2 coordinators) Guest State NAA users: 311 (36 coordinators) from 25 countries – Algeria, Argentina, Belarus, Brazil, Canada, Cape Verde, Chile, China, Curaçao, Ecuador, Egypt, Ethiopia, Hong Kong, Iran, Israel, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Pakistan, Russian Federation, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Thailand, Tunisia, UAE, USA EASA/ICAO/Commission users: 70 Operator users: 992 from 676 operators Reports on registered OPR: 80% 23
SAFA Standardisation Programme Overview To assist the European Commission in monitoring the implementation and To assess the impact of the effective application of the implementation of the To ensure long term data SAFA-related EU legislation SAFA-related EU legislation quality improvements (regulations / directives / and its effectiveness guidance materials) and its uniform understanding 25/10/2012 2nd SAFA Regulators and Industry Forum, Cologne 24
SAFA Standardisation Programme Legal Basis Paragraph 2.4.5 of Annex to the Commission Directive 2008/49/EC • SAFA standardisation audits conducted by EASA in accordance with the working methods provided under Commission Regulation (EC) No 736/2006 • 736/2006 was recently amended by Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 90/2012, with explicit reference to assessing compliance with requirements of EASA Basic Regulation and its implementing rules in the field of ramp inspections Terms of Reference for the SAFA standardisation process as agreed and endorsed by the European SAFA Steering Group on its 8 th Meeting in Dubrovnik (Croatia), 21-22 October 2009. 25/10/2012 2nd SAFA Regulators and Industry Forum, Cologne 25
Progress Report – 1 st Standardisation cycle Audits performed: 2009 Luxembourg Lithuania Sweden Portugal Switzerland 2010 Ukraine Poland Czech Albania Slovak Denmark Republic Republic Bulgaria Spain Turkey Belgium Bosnia & Greece Herzegovina Norway Austria United Slovenia Ireland Romania Kingdom Cyprus Serbia Hungary Estonia Finland FYROM 2011 Croatia Moldova Iceland Latvia Germany France Azerbaijan Georgia Armenia Netherlands Malta Italy 25/10/2012 2nd SAFA Regulators and Industry Forum, Cologne
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