AMC & GM to Part-66 — Issue 2, Amendment 6

ANNEX III TO ED DECISION 2022/011/R

Acceptable Means of Compliance (AMC) and Guidance Material (GM) to Annex III (Part-66) to Commission Regulation (EU) No 1321/2014

Issue 2 — Amendment 6

Annex III to Decision 2015/029/R is amended as follows: The text of the amendment is arranged to show deleted text, new or amended text as shown below: — deleted text is struck through; — new or amended text is highlighted in blue; — an ellipsis ‘[…]’ indicates that the rest of the text is unchanged.

SECTION A TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS

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GM 66.A.20(a) Privileges

1. The following definitions apply: […] Line maintenance: refer to AMC1 145.A.10 means any maintenance that is carried out before flight to ensure that the aircraft is fit for the intended flight. It may include: − trouble shooting; − defect rectification; − component replacement with use of external test equipment, if required. Component replacement may include components such as engines and propellers; − scheduled maintenance and/or checks including visual inspections that will detect obvious unsatisfactory conditions/discrepancies but do not require extensive in depth inspection. It may also include internal structure, systems and powerplant items which are visible through quick opening access panels/doors; − minor repairs and modifications which do not require extensive disassembly and can be accomplished by simple means; − for temporary or occasional cases (Airworthiness Directives, hereinafter AD; service bulletins, hereinafter SB) the quality manager may accept base maintenance tasks to be performed by a line maintenance organisation provided all requirements are fulfilled. The Member State will prescribe the conditions under which these tasks may be performed. Base Mmaintenance: refer to AMC1 145.A.10 means any task falling outside the criteria that are given above for Line Maintenance. NOTE: Aircraft maintained in accordance with ‘progressive’ type programmes need to be individually assessed in relation to this paragraph. In principle, the decision to allow some ‘progressive’ checks to be carried out is determined by the assessment that all tasks within the particular check can be carried out safely to the required standards at the designated line maintenance station.

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SECTION B PROCEDURES FOR COMPETENT AUTHORITIES

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AMC 66.B.105 Procedure for the issue of an aircraft maintenance licence via the Part-145 approved maintenance organisation

1. The maintenance organisation approved under Part-145 should include the procedure in the organisation’s exposition (Chapter 3.21 3.16), and this procedure should be audited by the competent authority at least once in each 12-month period. This procedure should include a limitation stating that it is only applicable to the case where the competent authority for the Part-145 approval and for the Part-66 licence is the same. 2. […] […]

AMC 66.B.115 Procedure for the change of an aircraft maintenance licence to include an aircraft rating or to remove limitations

[…] (c) For the acceptance of the OJT programme described in Section 6 of Appendix III to Part-66, the licensing competent authority should develop adequate procedures which may be similar to the procedure described in AMC 66.B.130 for the ‘direct approval of aircraft type training’. In the case where the licensing competent authority is different from the competent authority of the maintenance organisation which provides the OJT, the licensing authority may take into consideration the fact that the maintenance organisation may already have the OJT programme accepted by their own competent authority (directly approved or through cChapter 3.20 3.15 of the MOE, as described in AMC1 145.A.70(a)). […]

AMC 66.B.120 Procedure for the renewal of an aircraft maintenance licence validity

[…] For the purpose of ensuring the continued validity of the certification privileges, the competent authority may, when periodically reviewing the organisations in accordance with 145.B.305 145.B.30, M.B.604 or CAO.B.055, or during on-the-spot checks, request the licence holder to provide documentary evidence of compliance with 66.A.20(b) when exercising certification privileges.

AMC TO APPENDICES TO PART-66

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AMC to Section 6 of Appendix III to Part-66 ‘Aircraft Type Training and Examination Standard. On-the-Job Training’

On-the-Job Training (OJT)

[…] 9. The procedures for OJT of a Part-145 organisation should be included into the Exposition Manual of the approved maintenance organisation exposition (cChapter 3.20 3.15, as indicated in AMC1 145.A.70(a)). […]