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J A S O N
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AEA GENERAL COUNSEL

Examine the Maintenance Annex

to understand the responsibilities of a US/EU dual-certificated repair station

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If the bilateral agreement
is not a treaty, then it is
not enforceable.

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REALITY

The bilateral aviation safety
agreement between the
United States and the
European Union is a treaty.

dards; but which EU standards apply? The answer is found
within the U.S.-EU Maintenance Annex.
In order to understand how the U.S.-EU Maintenance Annex
works, it is first necessary to understand the structure of the
bilateral agreements between the U.S. and its trading partners.
Let's look at the agreement between the U.S. and the EU as our
example.
The U.S.-EU agreement is known as the Agreement on
Cooperation in the Regulation of Civil Aviation Safety. The
essential word in this description is cooperation.
The agreement consists of a high-level agreement, several
annexes, and lower-level guidance related to the annexes.

Treaties are negotiated by the executive branch
of the government, but in order to make them
effective, they must be approved by the U.S.
Senate. The bilateral agreement was never
approved by the U.S. Senate so it is not a treaty.

REALITY

MYTH

MYTH

ave you looked at the Maintenance Annex between the
United States and the European Union?
I mean, have you truly looked at it?
I ask because I get calls and emails from domestic U.S. repair
stations asking questions about their EASA 145 credentials.
They often call because they are in disputes with their principal
FAA inspectors over interpretation. And sometime, they are
relying on the wrong resources to identify their responsibilities.
There are more than 1,400 repair stations in the U.S. that also
hold EASA Part 145 approval. Each of those dual-certificated
repair stations is audited by their FAA principal maintenance
inspector for compliance to both U.S. standards and EU stan-

There is no separate statutory authority for the
United States to enter into bilateral aviation safety
agreements - they are sole executive agreements.
Sole executive agreements are legal and enforceable
even when they do not rise to the level of treaties
(so long as they do not violate the Constitution or
Congressional intent expressed in a statute). Typically,
it is only when executive agreements conflict with
other laws that they may be unenforceable.



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