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A Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year to all our members and supporters. After 20 plus years of instability due government changing the environment that we all work in, our members would like to see an inquiry into identifying, and recommendations to remove impediments to the growth of the aviation and aerospace industry in Australia. . read more click on Breaking News

Since the government decided to reform the environment within which we work, foreign markets have continually been lost to our members unless they obtain foreign approval of their businesses. After all the government iniated inquiries, reports. industry petitions (still happening), coronial and other court recommendations and findings, our industry has only seen increasing administrative costs without opening foreign markets to Australian maintenance organisations.

AMROBA no longer supports harmonisation using the current process. In 1998, Civil Aviation Safety Regulation Parts 21-35 were made by ADOPTING the Federal Administration Regulation Part 21 with minimal change to remove references to the US FAA and replace with references to CASA. The only way is to adopt EASR airline maintenance without word change and to adopt the New Zealand non airline maintenance rules without change.

This adoption methodology has worked; even if it took the government and CASA over 10 years to implement an agreement and procedures that enables manufactured parts to be sold in the US. What is missing is similar agreements in the India, Asia/Pacific region to recognise the Australian government/CASA Authorised Release Certificate (ARC) so that the smaller MRO businesses in Australia can access the local region markets.

Why has the ARC become non acceptable within this Region?

Many maintenance organisations have lost trade markets because there is no recognition of the ARC in our local region.

AMROBA has raised this with CASA on a number of occasions without success. It has been raised with government without success. The basic reason to reform the aviation rules was to harmonise so Australian MRO (maintenance & manufacturing) businesses could have access to foreign markets without having to obtain approvals from foreign NAAs.

Obviously this is no longer the direction of government; small aviation MROs are trade restricted to the Australian aviation market only. The priority is wrong.