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21.A.263 Privileges

Regulation (EU) 2022/1358

(a)     (Reserved)

(b)     (Reserved)

(c)      The holder of a design organisation approval shall be entitled, within the scope of its terms of approval issued under point 21.A.251 and under the relevant procedures of the design management system:

1.       to classify changes to a type certificate or to a supplemental type certificate and repair designs as ‘major’ or ‘minor’;

2.       to approve minor changes to a type certificate or to a supplemental type certificate and minor repair designs under this Annex (Part 21) or under Annex Ib (Part 21 Light);

3.       to declare the compliance of a minor change or minor repair to the design of an aircraft for which design compliance has been declared by the declarant under point 21L.A.43 of Subpart C of Section A of Annex Ib (Part 21 Light;)

4.       to declare compliance of a changed aircraft design, in accordance with point 21L.A.43 of Annex Ib (Part 21 Light), in the event that the natural or legal person who originally made a declaration of design compliance with respect to that aircraft under point 21L.A.43 of Annex Ib (Part 21 Light) is no longer active or is unresponsive to requests for the declaration of compliance of design changes;

5.       to approve certain major repair designs under Subpart M of this Annex to products or auxiliary power units (APUs);

6.       to approve for certain aircraft the flight conditions under which a permit to fly can be issued in accordance with point 21.A.710(a)(2), except for permits to fly to be issued for the purpose of point 21.A.701(a)(15);

7.       to issue a permit to fly in accordance with point 21.A.711(b) for an aircraft it has designed or modified, or for which it has approved, in accordance with point 21.A.263(c)(6), the flight conditions under which the permit to fly can be issued, and where the holder of a design organisation approval itself:

(i)      controls the configuration of the aircraft, and

(ii)     attests conformity with the design conditions approved for the flight;

8.       to approve certain major changes to a type certificate under Subpart D of this Annex or under Subpart D of Section A of Annex Ib (Part 21 Light); and

9.       to issue certain supplemental type certificates under Subpart E of this Annex or under Subpart E of Section A of Annex Ib (Part 21 Light) and approve certain major changes to those certificates.