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21L.A.177 Obligations of the declared design organisation

Regulation (EU) 2022/1358

A declared design organisation shall:

(a) work in accordance with clearly defined procedures, practices and processes;

(b) if the declared design organisation intends to conduct flight testing, maintain and keep updated an operations manual that provides a description of the organisation’s policies and processes for flight testing and make this manual available to the Agency upon request;

(c) determine whether the designs of products, including changes and repairs, do not have any unsafe features and comply with the applicable type-certification basis, and with the applicable environmental protection requirements, and provide the Agency with statements/documentation confirming this;

(d) provide the Agency with information or instructions relating to continued airworthiness actions;

(e) comply with the requirements in Subpart A of this Annex applicable to declared design organisations.