GM1 ARGH.OVS.300(d) Oversight

• ED Decision 2025/006/R found in: Ground Handling (GH) (2025/23 and 2025/20) (Nov 2025)

##### GM1 ARGH.OVS.300(d) Oversight *ED Decision 2025/006/R* **INDUSTRY AUDITS IN THE SCOPE OF OVERSIGHT** Various organisations may perform an audit on a GH organisation to verify how it implements different procedures as part of its contractual obligations. The competent authority could decide to use, as relevant, the results from those audits for the purpose of oversight or to better define a GH organisation’s safety profile as a basis for risk-based oversight, alongside safety occurrence reports. Below is a non-exhaustive list of possible industry auditing organisations: (a) an aerodrome operator, to verify that the GH organisation implements the aerodrome procedures or programmes applicable to it under [Regulation (EU) No 139/2014](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2014/139/oj), such as, for example, the foreign object debris (FOD) programme, operation in adverse weather conditions, pedestrian access or driving in airside areas; (b) an aircraft operator, to verify that the GH organisation implements the aircraft operator’s procedures applicable to it as per [Regulation (EU) No 965/2012](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2012/965/oj) and Annex VII to [Regulation (EU) 2018/1139](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2018/1139/oj); (c) a third-party industry auditing organisation performing the audit on behalf of an aircraft operator or an aerodrome operator.