Continuing Airworthiness Management Organisations

Filling and submitting the application

To receive a certificate for a continuing airworthiness management organisation (CAMO) or combined airworthiness organisation (CAO), an EASA form 2 application and the following documents must be submitted to the Estonian Transport Administration:

• the continuing airworthiness management organisation or combined airworthiness organisation exposition (CAME/CAE);
• the technical logs of aircraft operated in commercial air transport;
• the aircraft maintenance contracts;
• the organisation’s own competency assessment with supporting training records and CV-s for the approval of management personnel;
• the aircraft maintenance programmes;
• the subcontracts for continuing airworthiness duties (if applicable);
• self-assessment of the organisation’s conformity to the corresponding regulation;
• certification of paying the state fee.

Processing of the application

The Estonian Transport Administration processes the application and submitted documents and notifies the applicant of a need for additional information or documents within 30 days.

Additional information and documents must be submitted to the Transport Administration within three months (two months in the case of a change request) as of the notification. If the requested information or documents are not submitted then the processing of the application will be ended with a refusal to issue the certificate.

The Transport Administration verifies the correspondence of the maintenance organisation to the requirements of Part-M within 60 days after the submission of the application, documents or information.

Any faults found during the verification process must be corrected within nine months (three months in the case of a change request). If the faults are not corrected then the process will be terminated.

The Transport Administration may carry out additional check-ups within 30 days of the correction of the faults. The decision to issue the certificate will be made within 30 days after the verification, additional check-ups and correction of faults.

Changing the certificate

The data on the certificate may be changed by the owner of the certificate based on a request or on the initiative of the Estonian Transport Administration.

When requesting a change to the certificate, the following must be submitted to the Transport Administration:

• ​​​​​​​EASA form 2 application;
• the corrections or changes to the documents depending on the type of change;
• the organisation’s own assessment of conformity to corresponding regulations and the organisation’s exposition if applying for new competencies or types of aircraft (if applicable);
• a certificate of payment of the state fee.

Suspending and terminating the certificate

The certificate will be terminated or suspended if the organisation does not conform to the requirements of Part-M.

In the case of non-conformity, the Estonian Transport Administration will issue a precept to the owner of the certificate and will suspend the certificate until the precept is fulfilled.

If the precept is not fulfilled within the given time frame then the certificate will be terminated.

Terminated certificates are returned to the Transport Administration within 3 work days after the announcement of termination.