Validating Authority definition
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The Validating Authority shall notify the Certificating Authority of any such exemptions, deviations or special conditions.
In the areas of reciprocal acceptance of approvals and reciprocal acceptance of findings of compliance, there is no technical involvement by the Validating Authority (VA) in the validation and approval process.
When specifying exemptions, deviations, compensating factors or special conditions, the Validating Authority shall give due consideration to those of the Certificating Authority and shall not be more demanding for the products to be validated than it would be for similar products of its own.
The reporting obligations from the certificate holder to the Certificating Authority and the information exchange mechanism established by this Annex shall be considered to fulfil the obligation of each certificate holder to report failures, malfunctions, defects or other occurrences to the Validating Authority.
An application for a Design Certificate shall be made to the Validating Authority through the Certificating Authority, where appropriate and as detailed in the Technical Implementation Procedures.
Subject to agreement between the Technical Agents, for some design-related operational requirements the Validating Authority may accept the compliance statement of the Certificating Authority.
The Certificating Authority shall ensure that the Validating Authority receives all the relevant data and information, as defined in the Technical Implementation Procedures, necessary for the Validating Authority to become and remain familiar with the design and certification of the Civil Aeronautical Products that are subject to validation.
The environmental protection requirements used during the validation process of a type certificate shall be the applicable requirements in effect in the Party of the Validating Authority on the date of application for validation to the Validating Authority.
The Validating Authority shall specify, when applicable, any: exemption to the applicable standards; deviation from the applicable standards; compensating factors that provide an equivalent level of safety when applicable standards are not complied with.
For any additional application in a given product category, which is received before the first validation has been completed, the Validating Authority will determine on a case-by-case basis whether the special procedures and scrutiny will be exercised and to what extent.