Article 7 — Quality and content of occurrence reports

1.       Occurrence reports referred to in Article 6 shall contain at least the information listed in Annex I.

2.       Occurrence reports referred to in paragraphs 5, 6 and 8 of Article 6 shall include a safety risk classification for the occurrence concerned. That classification shall be reviewed and if necessary amended, and shall be endorsed by the competent authority of the Member State or the Agency, in accordance with the common European risk classification scheme referred to in paragraph 5 of this Article.

3.       Organisations, Member States and the Agency shall establish data quality checking processes to improve data consistency, notably between the information collected initially and the report stored in the database.

4.       The databases referred to in paragraphs 5, 6 and 8 of Article 6 shall use formats which are:

(a)      standardised to facilitate information exchange; and

(b)     compatible with the ECCAIRS software and the ADREP taxonomy.

5.       The Commission, in close cooperation with the Member States and the Agency through the network of aviation safety analysts, referred to in Article 14(2), shall develop a common European risk classification scheme to enable the organisations, Member States and the Agency to classify occurrences in terms of safety risk. In so doing, the Commission shall take into account the need for compatibility with existing risk classification schemes.

The Commission shall develop that scheme by 15 May 2017.

6.       The Commission shall be empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 18 to define the common European risk classification scheme.

7.       The Commission shall, by means of implementing acts, adopt the arrangements for the implementation of the common European risk classification scheme. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 19(2).

8.       The Commission and the Agency shall support the competent authorities of the Member States in their task of data integration, including for example in:

(a)      the integration of the minimum information referred to in paragraph 1;

(b)     the risk classification of occurrences referred to in paragraph 2; and

(c)      the establishment of data quality checking processes referred to in paragraph 3.

The Commission and the Agency shall provide that support in such a way as to contribute to the harmonisation of the data entry process across Member States, in particular by providing to staff working in the bodies or entities referred to in Article 6(1), (3) and (4):

(a)      guidance material;

(b)     workshops; and

(c)      appropriate training.