EN
L 118/50
Official Journal of the European Union
4.5.2023
ANNEX II
Annex II (PART ATCO.AR) to Regulation (EU) 2015/340 is amended as follows: 1.
point ATCO.AR.A.005 is replaced by the following: ‘ATCO.AR.A.005 Personnel (a) Competent authorities shall produce and update every 2 years an assessment of the human resources needed to perform their oversight functions, based on the analysis of the processes required by this Regulation.
(b) Personnel authorised by the competent authority to carry out certification or oversight tasks, or both, shall be empowered to perform as a minimum the following tasks: (1) examine documents, including licences, certificates, records, data, procedures and any other material relevant to the execution of the required task; (2) take copies of or extracts from such records, data, procedures and other material; (3) ask for an explanation; (4) enter relevant premises and operating sites; (5) perform audits and inspections, including unannounced inspections; (6) take or initiate enforcement measures as appropriate.’;
2.
point ATCO.AR.A.010 is replaced by the following: ‘ATCO.AR.A.010 Tasks of the competent authorities The tasks of the competent authorities shall include: (a) the issue, suspension and revocation of licences, ratings, endorsements and of medical certificates; (b) the issue of temporary OJTI authorisations according to point ATCO.C.025; (c) the issue of temporary assessor authorisations according to point ATCO.C.065; (d) the revalidation and renewal of endorsements; (e) the revalidation, renewal and limitation of medical certificates following referral by the aero-medical examiner (AME) or aero-medical centre (AeMC); (f)
the issue, revalidation, renewal, suspension, revocation, limitation and change of aero-medical examiner certificates;
(g) the issue, suspension, revocation and limitation of training organisation certificates and of the certificates of aeromedical centres; (h) the approval of training courses, training plans and unit competence schemes, as well as assessment methods; (i)
the approval of the assessment method for the demonstration of language proficiency and the establishment of requirements applicable to language assessment bodies according to point ATCO.B.040;
(j)
the approval of the need for the extended level (level five) language proficiency in accordance with point ATCO.
B.030(d);
(k) the oversight of training organisations, including their training courses and plans; (l)
the approval and oversight of the unit competence schemes;
(m) the establishment of appropriate appeal procedures and notification mechanisms; (n) facilitating the recognition and exchange of licences, including the transfer of the records of air traffic controllers and return of the old licence to the issuing competent authority according to point ATCO.AR.D.003; (o) facilitating the recognition of training organisation certificates and course approvals, as well as the approval of the assessment method for the demonstration of language proficiency.’;