21.1. Competent authority

• Regulation (EU) 2022/203 found in: Initial Airworthiness and Environmental Protection (No 748/2012) Part-21 Part-21L (Jul 2024)

21.1. Competent authority Regulation (EU) 2022/203 For the purpose of this Annex, the ‘competent authority’ shall be: (a)     for Section A, Subpart A, 1.       for design organisations, the Agency; 2.       for production organisations that have their principal place of business in a territory for which a Member State is responsible under the Convention on International Civil Aviation, signed in Chicago on 7 December 1944 (‘the Chicago Convention’), the authority designated by that Member State or by another Member State in accordance with Article 64 of [Regulation (EU) 2018/1139](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A32018R1139), or the Agency if the responsibility has been reallocated to the Agency in accordance with Article 64 or 65 of [Regulation (EU) 2018/1139](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A32018R1139); 3.       for production organisations that have their principal place of business outside a territory for which a Member State is responsible under the Chicago Convention, the Agency; (b)     for Section A, Subparts B, D, E, J, K, M, O and Q, the Agency; (c)      for Section A, Subparts F and G: 1.       for natural or legal persons that have their principal place of business in a territory for which a Member State is responsible under the Chicago Convention, the authority designated by that Member State or by another Member State in accordance with Article 64 of [Regulation (EU) 2018/1139](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A32018R1139), or the Agency if the responsibility has been reallocated to the Agency in accordance with Article 64 or, as regards Subpart G, Article 65 of [Regulation (EU) 2018/1139](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A32018R1139); 2.       for natural or legal persons that have their principal place of business outside a territory for which a Member State is responsible under the Chicago Convention, the Agency; (d)     for Section A, Subpart H and I, the authority designated by the Member State where the aircraft is registered or will be registered: (e)     for Section A, Subpart P: 1.       for aircraft registered in a Member State, the authority designated by the Member State of registry; 2.       for unregistered aircraft, the authority designated by the Member State which prescribed the identification marks; 3.       for the approval of the flight conditions related to the safety of the design, the Agency.