The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) recently signed agreements with Transport Canada Civil Aviation (TCCA) and Brazil’s Agência Nacional de Aviação Civil (ANAC) to make the process easier for the agencies to approve aircraft and aviation products.
The FAA and TCCA signed a Shared Surveillance Management Plan. The plan outlines the process by which the nations recognize each other’s surveillance of manufacturers and their suppliers.
The plan requires manufacturers, certificate holders, and production approval holders comply with an approved quality system and ensure their subcontractors and suppliers also meet the applicable requirements and adhere to quality standards.
FAA and TCCA aviation inspectors will be able to travel freely to each other’s facilities to do surveillance. This previously was done on a case-by-case basis.
Brazil is a member of the quadrilateral Certification Management Team and has been working with the FAA on ways to enhance safety and security.
In September 2006, the FAA and ANAC signed their first Implementation Procedures Agreement (IPA). Two amendments also were signed since with the most recent in February 2016.
The new FAA-ANAC agreement expands the IPA to include general aviation aircraft. It also provides risk-based decision criteria for the FAA and ANAC to validate each other’s aviation products.