Joint Aviation Authorities

The Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA, Joint Aviation Authorities in English) are a body associated with the European Aviation Conference Civil and constitute the highest regulatory body for civil aviation in the territory of the European Union.

History

The JAA was created in 1970 as an airworthiness certification authority for the European Union. Its original objectives, therefore, were limited to producing common certification laws for large aircraft and their engines due to the needs of the European aeronautical industry and particularly of the products produced by European international consortiums such as Airbus. Starting in 1987, its scope was extended to the regulation of all activities of operation, maintenance, licensing and description of certification and design standards for all classes of aircraft. Through regulation 1592/2002 of the European Parliament and the Council of Europe approved on September 28, 2003, the JAA assumed all regulatory authority in aviation matters within the territory of the European Union, with the exception of that related to safety in flight, who is in charge of the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA).

Functions

The main functions of the JAA are:

• Develop and adopt Common Aviation Requirements (JAR) relating to the design and manufacture of aircraft, operation of aircraft and licensing of personnel related to flight in some way.
• Develop administrative and technical procedures to implement JARs in a coordinated and uniform manner.
• Ensure that mandatory flight safety measures do not distort competition between the aviation industries of member States or place them in a bad competitive position with respect to the aeronautical industries of non-member States.
• Provide a core of European experts for aviation regulations.
• Cooperate in the harmonization of requirements and procedures with other regulatory authorities and in particular with Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) American.

JAR codes

The JAR codes had to be incorporated into the internal legal system by the States to acquire legal value. However, certain codes were incorporated through the inclusion in the regulations of the European Union under Regulation (EC) No. 3922/1991, of December 16, on the standardization of technical requirements and administrative procedures in the field of civil Aviation. As of 1992, the JAR codes, once elaborated, could be included as Standardized Technical Standards of the European Union, and therefore, with legal effects in each of the Member States of the Union.

JAR tag enumeration

Joint aviation requirements were organized into different specific regulatory fields. Each JAR is a code, that is, a systematic collection of standards that refer to a specific aeronautical topic.

MAINTENANCE

JAR-145 Approved Maintenance Organizations.

JAR-66 Maintenance Certifying Personnel.

JAR-147 Approved Training/Maintenance Testing Organizations.

CERTIFICATION

JAR-21 Certification of products and parts.

JAR-22 Certification of gliders and motor sailers.

JAR-23 Small aircraft certification.

JAR-25 Certification of large aircraft.

JAR-27 Certification of small helicopters.

JAR-29 Certification of large helicopters.

JAR-36 Aircraft noise certification.

JAR-39 Airworthiness Directives

JAR-E Engines.

JAR-P Propellers.

JAR-APU Auxiliary Power Units.

JAR-TSO Joint Standard Orders

JAR-AWO All Time Operations

JAR-VLA Very light aircraft certification.

OPERATIONS

JAR-OPS PART 1 Commercial air transport (Aircraft).

JAR-OPS PART 3 Commercial air transport (Helicopters).

JAR-26 Operations Airworthiness Requirements