Article 15

Airworthiness and Environmental Certification 1. With regard to products, parts and appliances referred to in Article 4(1), the Agency shall, where applicable and as specified in the Chicago Convention or its Annexes, carry out on behalf of Member States the functions and tasks of the State of design, manufacture or registry when related to design approval. To that end, it shall in particular: for each product for which a type-certificate or a change to a type-certificate is requested, establish and notify the type-certification basis. That certification basis consists of the applicable airworthiness code, the provisions for which an equivalent level of safety has been accepted and the special detailed technical specifications necessary when the design features of a particular product or the experience in operation render any of the airworthiness code provisions inadequate or inappropriate to ensure conformity with essential requirements; for each product for which a restricted certificate of airworthiness is requested, establish and notify the specific airworthiness specifications; for each part or appliance for which a certificate is requested, establish and notify the detailed airworthiness specifications; for each product for which environmental certification is required in accordance with Article 6, establish and notify the appropriate environmental requirements; conduct, itself or through national aviation authorities or qualified entities, technical inspections associated with products, parts and appliances certification; issue the appropriate type-certificates or associated changes; issue certificates for parts and appliances; issue the appropriate environmental certificates; amend, suspend or revoke the relevant certificate when the conditions according to which it was issued are no longer fulfilled or if the legal or natural person holding the certificate fails to fulfil the obligations imposed on it by this Regulation or by its implementing rules; ensure the continuing airworthiness functions associated with the products, parts and appliances it has certified, including reacting without undue delay to a safety problem and issuing and disseminating the applicable mandatory information. 2. With regard to organisations, the Agency shall: conduct, itself or through national aviation authorities or qualified entities, inspections and audits of the organisations it certifies; issue and renew the certificates of: design organisations; or production organisations located within the territory of the Member States, if requested by the Member State concerned; or production and maintenance organisations located outside the territory of the Member States; amend, suspend or revoke the relevant organisation certificate when the conditions according to which it was issued are no longer fulfilled, or if the organisation concerned fails to fulfil the obligations imposed on it by this Regulation or by its implementing rules.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-11-05 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.