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Part ARO - ANNEX II - Authority Requirements for Air Operations

(c) The CAA shall, in coordination with the State of the operator or the State of Registry,
prescribe the necessary conditions under which the aircraft can be allowed to take-off.
(d) If the non-compliance affects the validity of the certificate of airworthiness of the aircraft,
the grounding shall only be lifted by the CAA when the operator shows evidence that:
(1) compliance with the applicable requirements has been re-established;
(3) a permit-to-fly or equivalent document of the State of Registry or the State of the
operator; and
(4) permission from third countries which will be overflown, if applicable.
ARO.RAMP.145 Reporting
(a) Information collected in accordance with ARO.RAMP.125 shall be entered into the
database maintained by the European Aviation Safety Agency and used by the CAA in
accordance with working arrangements established in accordance with article 90(2) of
Regulation (EU) 2018/1139 (“the EASA centralised database”), within 21 calendar days
after the inspection.
(b) The CAA shall enter into the EASA centralised database any information useful for the
application of Regulation (EC) No 216/2008 and its Implementing Rules and for the
accomplishment by the CAA of the tasks assigned to it by this Annex, including the
relevant information referred to in ARO.RAMP.110.
(d) Whenever information concerning aircraft deficiencies is given by a person to the CAA,
the information referred to in ARO.RAMP.110 and ARO.RAMP.125(a) shall be de-
identified regarding the source of such information.
ARO.RAMP.145 AMC1 Safety reports
IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION
(a) When the CAA receives safety-related information that could be of interest to the entire
RAMP community, it should create a ‘safety report’ and insert it into the ramp inspection
tool pursuant to ARO.RAMP.110.
(b) Safety-related information should be verified by the reporting authority, as far as possible,
before insertion in the ramp inspection tool.
(c) If available, any relevant information contained in documents and pictures should be
attached to the ‘safety report’.
ARO.RAMP.150(b)(4)(iii) AMC1 Agency coordination tasks
SYSTEM-WIDE COORDINATION OF RAMP INSPECTIONS
In order to ensure a coordinated approach in establishing a risk-based number of ramp inspections
for operators, the Agency should establish annual targets. When doing so, the following should be
taken into account:
(a) Such targets should only be established for operators flying to Member States’ territories
located in the ICAO EUR region⁸;
(b) The targets for the upcoming year should be distributed to the Member States at the latest
by 1 December and updated at least once during the upcoming year; and
(c) The targets should be established per Member State for two layers of operators as
follows:
(1) a target number of inspections for each operator for which the average number of
commercial flights for the previous 12 months in each Member State is beyond a
threshold defined by the Agency, based on an assessment of the safety risks and
the number of flights (‘layer 1’);
(2) an overall target number of inspections for those operators not covered by (1)
(‘layer 2’).
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⁸ As defined in ICAO Doc 7030: Regional Supplementary procedures
ARO.RAMP.155 Annual report
The CAA shall prepare and submit to the Secretary of State an annual report on the ramp inspection
system containing at least the following information:
(a) status of the progress of the system;
(b) status of the inspections performed in the year;
(c) analysis of the inspection results with indication of the categories of findings;
(d) actions taken during the year;
(e) proposals for further improving the ramp inspection system; and
(f) annexes containing lists of inspections sorted out by State of operation, aircraft type,
operator and ratios per item.
ARO.RAMP.160 Information to the public
(b) The CAA shall publish an aggregated information report annually that shall be available to
the public containing the analysis of the information received in accordance with
ARO.RAMP.145. The report shall be simple and easy to understand, and the source of
the information shall be de- identified.

SUBPART APP AUTHORITY REQUIREMENTS FOR AIR OPERATIONS - APPENDICES
Reference Description
ARO.APP1 Appendix I Air Operator Certificate

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