I have received a number of questions regarding the announcement of the bilateral agreement signed on November 19, 2020. If the person is located in a country with which the United States has a bilateral aviation safety agreement, the FAA may determine that the person meets the requirements of this Part based on certification from that country`s Civil Aviation Authority. This certification must comply with the implementation procedures signed by the administrator or the administrator`s agent. The basic Regulation recognises that, in the absence of an agreement concluded by the Community, the Agency may issue certificates pursuant to existing agreements between Member States and a third country. A bilateral aviation safety agreement (BASA) is an agreement that provides for the sharing of civil aviation certificates between two countries. [1] Pilot licences, particularly PPLs, are issues of great interest to the aviation community. After the deterioration of compatibility between civil aviation authorities and the FAA in Max 8, all the news that the FAA has reached an agreement with another CAA, in particular the European Union Safety Administration (EASA), is the most notable. When terms like ”new” and ”expand” are used in headlines, the journalist`s juice begins to flow. The substance of BASA is pilot training, a very hot topic before and after the Max 8 debacle.
This suggests that this is a hot topic, but as with many developments, the real reason for the announcement may not be as it appeared. In order to simplify telecommunications validation procedures, bilateral agreements42 have been concluded between States; Those agreements shall be based on a high level of mutual trust in the technical competence and regulatory capacity of the exporting authority to carry out aircraft certification tasks under the Agreement. The training deals with the process by which EASA manages its obligations related to bilateral regulatory agreements with the FAA and TCCA As mentioned above and also described as AC 21-23B, TC validation is a rather complex process, sometimes more difficult than the original type certification itself. Of course, the process can be simplified if two authorities have sufficient experience in import/export, but especially if the staff is familiar with the philosophy of bilateral agreements. The FAA and the European Commission have signed four resolutions on the US-EU safety agreement. Two of these decisions contained additional annexes to the original agreement on pilot licences and full-flight simulators. The new annexes are new areas of cooperation between the FAA and the European Commission. They reflect the completion of multi-year efforts to enable the mutual recognition of certain authorisations in these areas and to implement the expanded scope of cooperation efforts agreed by the FAA and the European Commission in December 2017. In the case of a formal recognition agreement between the Community and a third country in accordance with Article 12 of Regulation (EC) No 216/2008, that agreement, including the related implementation procedures, may supplement, amend or replace EASA`s normal certification procedures. The consolidated version of the US-EU Civil Aviation Security Regulatory Cooperation Agreement (BASA) has been prepared by EASA to provide stakeholders with an updated and easy-to-read publication.
It has been prepared by combining the corresponding officially published text of the BASA and all the amendments to the annexes of the BASA previously adopted by the Bilateral Supervisory Board. Please note, however, that this document is not an official publication. This document cannot have the same validity as an official legal text published in the Official Journal of the European Union, as it cannot be guaranteed that all recent legislative changes will be included without delay in the consolidated publication. Therefore, please understand that the Agency cannot accept any liability arising from the risk associated with the use of this document. Readers are invited and encouraged to report internationally easa.europa.eu perceived errors or comments on this publication. c) Understand a detailed knowledge of the regulatory environment that underpins the bilateral agreement process Also note that all this is currently valid at the level of private pilots. The BASA (Bilateral Agreement) contains provisions that may be extended to CPL and ATPL licenses in the future. The bilateral agreement between the United States and Europe is a quick way to allow pilots who flew aircraft registered as third country ”N” while they were based full-time in Europe only with FAA licenses. Type certificate under a bilateral (recognition) agreement with the State of design.
NOTE: As long as the Community has not concluded its own bilateral (recognition) agreements in accordance with Article 12 of the basic Regulation, existing bilateral (recognition) agreements – including their airworthiness implementation (IPA) procedures – between EU Member States and third countries may be used for the validation of third country type-approvals. . . .
