GM-ELA No 1 to 21.A.143 Exposition    

CAA ORS9 Decision No. 1

The purpose of the production organisation exposition (POE) is to provide in a concise and documented format the organisational relationships, responsibilities, terms of reference, and the associated authority, procedures, means and methods of the organisation.

The POE is not the top-level mechanism for organisational control and oversight, and it therefore does not need to provide revision-controlled links to referenced documents. The POE should provide a high- level summary of the organisation’s control and oversight methods, and appropriate cross references that allow access to the manuals, procedures and instructions, if applicable.

The POE should be an accurate definition and description of the production organisation. The document does not require approval in itself, but it will be considered when approving the organisation.

The scope of the production organisation and the oversight is not limited to the locations that are identified in the POE, which only shows the ‘major places of activity’.

The sublevel production location(s) does (do) not need to be identified in the POE. To ensure transparency to the authority, and in analogy to the management of external suppliers, at least those sublevel locations where manufacturing processes are exercised that require close process control (‘special processes’) should be identified, but not necessarily as part of the POE. They may be identified within the company manual or in a separate listing.

The scope of work automatically includes the products and all the spare parts required for the identified products, without any further specifications or details. Capability lists are not required by Subpart G. Separate from the statement of scope itself, a listing is provided that identifies the type(s) produced by the approved production organisation.

Note: A POE template, which may be used for a small company (adapted to the company’s specifics), is published by the CAA.

When changes to the organisation occur that have an impact on the POE, the POE should be updated in accordance with the agreed procedure. Significant changes to the approved production organisation (as explained in GM-ELA No 1 to 21.A.147) require approval by the CAA, and could also change the POE. The POE document, which is amended in accordance with the approved change, is not intended to be approved by the CAA, and visual evidence of the approval of the POE document is not needed.