AMC-ELA No 1 to 21.A.145(c) Approval requirements –Management and staff    

CAA ORS9 Decision No. 1

The CAA Form 4 should be used to nominate the accountable manager (AM) to the CAA. Further management staff members are not required to be nominated if the AM elects to take all the required responsibilities (e.g. including quality manager responsibilities). If the AM delegates any of the responsibilities as defined in 21.A.145(c) to sublevel managers, the sublevel managers who receive this delegation have to be nominated to the CAA by the use of CAA Form 4, and have to be listed in the POE.

It should be demonstrated that the AM has sufficient power within the company to control the production activity on the basis of the available resources, up to the point of stopping production when adequate resources cannot be provided.

The AM may delegate individual tasks to sublevel managers, while still maintaining his/her responsibilities and the power to make decisions; at the sublevel, in this case, the manager should monitor the sublevel activities. Such delegation of tasks to sublevels is defined internally and does not need to be formally declared to the CAA.