ATCO.OR.B.040 Occurrence reporting

(a)       Training organisations providing on-the-job training shall report to the competent authority, and to any other organisation required by the State of the operator to be informed, any accident, serious incident and occurrence as defined in Regulation (EU) No 996/2010 of the European Parliament and of the Council[22] and Regulation (EU) No 376/2014, resulting from their training activity.

(b)       Reports shall be made as soon as practicable, but in any case within 72 hours of the training organisation identifying the condition to which the report relates, unless exceptional circumstances prevent this.

(c)       Where relevant, training organisations shall produce a follow-up report to provide details of actions it intends to take to prevent similar occurrences in the future, as soon as these actions have been identified.

(d)       Without prejudice to Regulation (EU) No 996/2010 and Regulation (EU) No 376/2014, the reports referred to in points (a), (b) and (c) shall be made in a form and manner established by the competent authority and contain all pertinent information about the condition known to the training organisation.

[applicable until 3 August 2024 - Regulation (EU) 2015/340]

(a)       As part of their management system, training organisations providing on-the-job training shall establish and maintain an occurrence-reporting system, including mandatory and voluntary reporting. The training organisations established in a Member State and providing on-the-job training in the territory to which the Treaties apply shall ensure that the system complies with the requirements of Regulation (EU) No 376/2014 and its implementing acts and of Regulation (EU) 2018/1139 and its delegated and implementing acts.

(b)       Training organisations providing on-the-job training shall report to the competent authority and any other organisation required to be informed by the Member State where the training organisation provides on-the-job training, any safety-related event or condition resulting from their training activity that endangers or, if not corrected or addressed, could endanger an aircraft, its occupants or any other person, and in particular any accident or serious incident.

(c)       Without prejudice to Regulation (EU) No 376/2014 and its delegated and implementing acts, reports in accordance with point (b) above shall:

(1)       be made as soon as practicable, but in any case within 72 hours after the organisation became aware of the event or condition to which the report relates unless exceptional circumstances prevent this;

(2)       be made in a form and manner established by the competent authority;

(3)       contain all pertinent information about the condition known to the organisation.

(d)       For training organisations not established in a Member State and providing on-the-job training in the territory to which the Treaties apply, the initial mandatory reports shall:

(1)       appropriately safeguard the confidentiality of the identity of the reporter and of the persons mentioned in the report;

(2)       be made as soon as practicable, but in any case within 72 hours after the organisation became aware of the occurrence unless exceptional circumstances prevent this;

(3)       be made in a form and manner established by the competent authority; and

(4)       contain all pertinent information about the condition known to the organisation.

(e)       Without prejudice to Regulation (EU) No 376/2014 and its delegated and implementing acts, where relevant, a follow-up report providing details of actions the organisation intends to take to prevent similar occurrences in the future shall be made as soon as these actions have been identified; those follow-up reports shall:

(1)       be sent to relevant entities initially reported to as per points (b) and (c); and

(2)       be made in a form and manner established by the competent authority.

[applicable from 4 August 2024 - Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/893]