Product safety

Information note to competent authorities for, and owners/operators of, aircraft designed in the former soviet system

Fuel Tank Safety Meetings

The Agency organised two seminars on June 24th 2005 and on 6-7 February 2006, attended by European airlines, manufacturers and maintenance organisations to discuss its plans with regard to fuel tank safety.

Date/Venue Event Summary - proceedings
6 and 7 February 2006
Started 14h00
Location
Barcelona Conference Room in the Youth Hotel of Cologne-Deutz
(Siegestrasse 5, 50679 Cologne - Germany)		 R Fuel Tank Safety Workshop Further information:
EASA Fuel Tank Safety Workshop - General Presentation
EASA Fuel Tank Safety Workshop - Tank Inerting Presentation
EASA Fuel Tank Safety Workshop - Flammability Reduction Presentation
EASA Fuel Tank Safety Workshop - Airbus NPRM Position Paper Presentation
EASA Fuel Tank Safety Workshop - Industry Caucus
24 June
EASA Premises
Cologne
Germany		 R EASA-Industry Fuel Tank Safety Seminar
On 24/06/2005 EASA hosted a discussion an international discussion on the issue of Fuel Tank Safety.		 Further information:
Summary of Question and Answers Session.
FAA Presentation on Development/Implementation of Fuel Tank System Maintenance Program Changes
EASA Presentation on EASA Status with regard to Fuel Tank Safety
FAA Presentation (D. Cheney) on Fuel Tank Safety Enhancements of Large Transport Aircraft
Regulatory Impact Assessment For the Introduction of a Flammability Reduction System

Design Organisation Approval (DOA) - Review

The Agency has launched an initiative as part of its rulemaking programme to review the concept, rules and implementing procedures relating to Design Organisation Approval (DOA). The aim of this initiative is to determine a possible future structure for such approvals that will both ensure that the necessary safeguards are retained for the airworthiness and continued airworthiness of aircraft, while providing an efficient and economic process that meets the current and future needs of the aviation Industry. The attached questionnaire has been developed by the Agency as a first step to allow stakeholders to contribute to this review by inputting their experiences of using DOA as well as their future aspirations. Stakeholders are requested to complete the questionnaire and return it to the Agency by 31 March 2006. Complete instructions are included in the accompanying explanatory note.

Update: April 2006

Stakeholders were requested to complete the attached questionnaire by 31st March 2006. The Agency is now reviewing the replies and will inform stakeholders of the outcome in due course.