L 37/56
EN
Official Journal of the European Union
18.2.2022
ATACHMENT TO THE DECISION OF THE EU/ICAO JOINT COMMITTEE of XX 202X WORKING ARRANGEMENT BETWEEN THE INTERNATIONAL CIVIL AVIATION ORGANIZATION AND THE EUROPEAN UNION REGARDING THE COOPERATION IN THE AREA OF ACCIDENT AND INCIDENT REPORTING IN CIVIL AVIATION This Working Arrangement contains mutually agreed mechanisms and procedures necessary to effectively implement cooperation activities between the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and the European Union (EU).
ICAO and the EU are hereinafter referred to individually as the “Party” or collectively as the “Parties”.
1.
OBJECTIVE OF THE WORKING ARRANGEMENT
1.1.
This Working Arrangement, which comes under purview of the Memorandum of Cooperation (MoC) and its Annex on Aviation Safety, in particular Articles 3.3 and 7.3(c) of the MoC, has the objective to implement cooperation between the Parties aimed at supporting and promoting, where possible, each other’s activities in the area of accident and incident reporting in civil aviation. 1.2.
In order to achieve the objectives of this Working Arrangement, the Parties agree on the following general approach: a) For the effective implementation of this Working Arrangement, the EU designates the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) (4) as its ‘technical agent’.
b) EASA will promote the usage of ICAO’s Accident/Incident Data Reporting (ADREP) taxonomy as the standard for reporting and exchanging accident and incident information within the European Union Member States, European Economic Area (EEA) States and Switzerland.
c) The ICAO will promote the usage of the EU’s ECCAIRS 2 software suite of applications for the collection of accident and incident information to the ICAO Member States.
d) In relation to the use of the ECCAIRS 2 software suite, the ICAO and EASA will coordinate the sharing and harmonizing of their training and supporting efforts and material for the benefit of all ECCAIRS end-users.
e) ICAO and EASA will collaborate on the establishment of a global, and accessible central accident and incident database using ECCAIRS 2 software.
The database will be operated in accordance with the relevant information system security policies in force.
2.
SPECIFIC ACCOMMODATION BETWEEN THE PARTIES
2.1.
In order to promote the usage of the ADREP taxonomy, see point 1.2 b) above, the Parties agree on the following: a) ICAO is the owner and the responsible Party for the development and active maintenance of the ADREP taxonomy.
b) ICAO and the ECCAIRS Taxonomy Working Group coordinate and work in close cooperation to ensure a consistent evolution and implementation of the ADREP taxonomy including in the ECCAIRS Reporting System.
c) ICAO will publish on its website the ADREP taxonomy as a formal ICAO document and will update this document when necessary.
d) ICAO’s ADREP taxonomy is the basis for the aviation accident and incident reporting approach as defined in Regulation (EU) No 376/2014.
Changes in the ICAO ADREP taxonomy will, in principle, be integrated in the ECCAIRS aviation software releases.
(4) https://www.easa.europa.eu/