CAO.A.100 Quality system and organisational review

(a) To ensure that the CAO continues to meet the requirements of this Annex, this organisation shall establish a quality system and designate a quality manager.

(b) The quality system shall monitor the carrying out of the activities of the organisation covered by this Annex. It shall monitor in particular:

(1)  that all those activities are performed in accordance with the approved procedures;

(2)  that all contracted maintenance tasks are carried out in accordance with the contract;

(3)  that the organisation continues to comply with the requirements of this Annex.

(c) The records of that monitoring shall be retained for at least the previous 2 years.

(d) Where the organisation holding a CAO approval is additionally approved in accordance with an Annex other than this Annex, the quality system may be combined with that required by the other Annex.

(e) A CAO shall be considered as a small CAO when one of the following condition is met:

(1)  The scope of the CAO does only contain aircraft covered by Part-ML.

(2)  The CAO does not exceed 10 full-time equivalent staff involved in maintenance.

(3)  The CAO does not exceed 5 full-time equivalent staff involved in continuing airworthiness management.

(f) In the case of a small CAO, the quality system may be replaced by regular organisational reviews, subject to the approval of the CAA. In that case, the CAO shall not contract continuing airworthiness management tasks to other parties.