While this checklist is presented as a “sample” of the areas which should be covered during an independent audit of a “small” CAO organisation - It will also serve to provide guidance as to the required scope of the Quality System for a non-small CAO Organisation
For every item it should be considered that this audit is against a “standard” it is a compliance audit - where there is no documented standard directly available from the regulations - The organisation should develop & document its own standard.
Sofema Online - SOL (www.sofemaonline.com) offers updated information concerning the issue of ARC,s for CAO applicable aircraft in accordance with Annex VD (PART-CAO) (EU) 2019/1383 (Amended by (EU) 2020/270).
Introduction
Part-MG, Part-MF or Part-145 approval certificate should amend their exposition/ manual and associated procedures where applicable to account for changes introduced by Regulation (EU) 2019/1383 and 2020/270.
For that purpose, below is a non-exhaustive list of some of the main changes: