AMC3 ARGH.MGM.200(b) Management system

INITIAL TRAINING FOR AUTHORITY INSPECTORS

(a) Initial training should cover the KSA components as follows:

(1) The knowledge component should cover the content of this AMC.

(2) The skills component should cover audit/inspection techniques in specific areas of inspection.

(3) The attitude component should be developed throughout the training process, by monitoring the trainee inspectors’ behaviours and attitudes during their assigned tasks and practical exercises and by adjusting the behaviours through discussions and feedback from the instructor throughout the training process.

(b) The competent authority should ensure that the trainee inspectors have successfully completed the first phase of their initial training by passing an assessment with an appropriately qualified assessor.

(c) After having successfully passed the first phase of the initial KSA training, the trainee inspector should undergo on-the-job training. The objectives are as follows:

(1) to familiarise the trainee inspector with the particularities of performing a GH audit/inspection in a real, operational environment, which should be done in accordance with AMC4 ARGH.MGM.200(b); and

(2) to monitor the KSA components in a real-life environment and provide final feedback and guidance.

(d) The competent authority may adapt the duration and depth of the individual training programme of an inspector based on the previous qualifications and experience and competence they achieve.

CONTENT OF THE INITIAL TRAINING FOR AUTHORITY INSPECTORS

(e) The initial training programme for inspectors should include the following content, to cover the KSA components, adjusted to their role, current knowledge, experience and skills.

(f) The training programme should be updated, as needed, to reflect the latest changes in aviation legislation and the aviation industry.

(g) AVIATION LEGISLATION

(1) the Chicago Convention and the relevant International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO Annexes and Documents;

(2) the relevant requirements of Regulation (EU) 2018/1139, including the enforcement measures specified in Article 62 points (1)(e) and (9);

(3) Commission Implementing Regulation(EU) 2025/23, Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2025/20, the relevant parts of Regulations (EU) No 965/2012, (EU) No 139/2014, (EU) 2022/1645, and other applicable aviation regulations, as well as the AMC and GM associated with those regulations;

(4) Regulation (EU) No 376/2014 on occurrence reporting and analysis and follow-up of occurrences in civil aviation and the related Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/1018;

(5) any other relevant international or national aviation legislation.

(h) AUDITING TECHNIQUES

(1) theory of audits and inspections, auditing and reporting techniques, as well as quality and safety assurance, including aspects of performing remote inspections;

(2) competent authority procedures relevant to inspectors’ tasks;

(3) acceptability and auditing of management systems and the safety management system (SMS);

(4) methodology to assess AltMoC;

(5) rights and obligations of inspecting personnel of the competent authority.

(i) TECHNICAL TRAINING PER GH ACTIVITY

(1) technical training on specific GH activities as listed in Article 2 of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2025/20, appropriate to the role and tasks of the inspector;

(2) dangerous goods;

(3) operation of ground support equipment (GSE), as applicable;

(4) security;

(5) other suitable technical training appropriate to the role and tasks of inspectors, including familiarisation with the applicable industry standards.

(j) SMS TRAINING AND OTHER AREAS OF PARTICULAR INTEREST

These include, but are not limited to:

(1) management systems;

(2) assessment of the effectiveness of the SMS, in particular hazard identification and safety risk assessment, safety assurance principles and root cause analysis;

(3) accident and incident investigation training, with a focus on root cause analysis;

(4) non-punitive reporting techniques in the context of the implementation of a ‘just culture’;

(5) management of change;

(6) human factors principles.

(k) AERODROME TRAINING FOR UNESCORTED ACCESS TO THE MOVEMENT AREA

Unescorted access to the movement area and other operational areas of the aerodrome that are relevant to the oversight of GH activities, in accordance with the training for authority inspectors included in Regulation (EU) No 139/2014.