Disclaimer, Terms of Use and Information on EASA's responsibilities with regard to the Airworthiness Directives application
EASA has developed the Airworthiness Directives application as a service to enhance
the aviation industry's receipt of European Airworthiness Directives.
Use of the Airworthiness Directives application is based on the following terms:
- the Agency has no control over and assumes no responsibility for links to external sites;
- in the case of email alerts, the Agency has no control over and assumes no responsibility for external e-mail systems.
The Agency aims to minimise disruption caused by technical errors.
However some data or information on this site may have been created or structured in files or formats
which are not error-free thus Agency cannot guarantee that this service will not be interrupted
or otherwise affected by such problems. The Agency accepts no responsibility with regard to such problems
incurred as a result of using this site or any linked external site.
This disclaimer is not intended to limit the liability of the Agency in contravention
of any requirements laid down in applicable national law nor to exclude its liability for matters
which may not be excluded under that law.
Information on EASA's responsibilities with regard to Airworthiness Directives (ADs)
According to EU Regulation 1592/2002, since 28 September 2003 the Agency exercises on behalf of
the EU Member States their functions and tasks as State of Design, Manufacture and Registry regarding
design approval for products, parts and appliances under their safety oversight.
In that context the Agency shall issue ADs to ensure the continuing airworthiness of such products, parts and appliances.
EASA ADs are therefore addressed to the holders of the design approvals affected by such ADs.
The dissemination of ADs to aircraft operators and owners is a responsibility of the State of Registry
and does not belong to the Agency.
For products, parts and appliances, for which the Agency is not the Primary Certificating Authority,
its policy is to adopt automatically the ADs issued by the non-EU State of Design,
except if the Agency itself issues a different AD before the date of entry into force of the
non-EU State of Design AD (Decision N° 2/2003 of the Executive Director of the Agency of 14 October 2003).
A list of Foreign ADs can be found at the following link: http://www.easa.europa.eu/home/ad_non_eu.html.
[Note: such list is not necessarily comprehensive, complete, accurate or up to date and is published for courtesy only.]
The EASA Airworthiness Directives application contains only the ADs having an EASA approval number.
All the ADs issued by the NAAs prior to 28-Sep-2003 are not yet included and should be retrieved from the NAA websites.
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