AMC1 CAO.A.100(f) Quality system and organisational review    

CAA ORS9 Decision No. 1

ORGANISATIONAL REVIEW

(a) The primary objectives of organisational review are to provide a monitoring function on how the organisation ensures compliance with the applicable requirements, policies and procedures, and to request actions where non-compliances are identified.

(b) The CAO should identify the:

(1) person responsible for the organisational review;

(2) frequency of the reviews;

(3) scope and content of the reviews;

(4) persons accomplishing the reviews;

(5) procedure for planning, performing and processing review findings; and

(6) procedure for ensuring corrective actions are carried out in the appropriate time frame.

(c) Appendix II to AMC1 CAO.A.100(f) should be used to manage the organisational reviews.

(d) The following continuing airworthiness management activities should not be considered to be subcontracting and, as a consequence, they may be performed without a quality system, although they need to be described in the CAE and be approved by the CAA:

(1) Subscription to a technical publisher that provides maintenance data (aircraft maintenance manuals, illustrated parts catalogues, service bulletins, etc.).

(2) Contracting the use of a software tool for the management of CAO.A.080 continuing airworthiness data and CAO.A.090 records, provided that:

(i) if the tool is used by several organisations, each organisation has access to its own data only;

(ii) introduction of data can only be performed by personnel of the CAO; and

(iii) the data can be retrieved at any time.