EASA Occurrence Reporting under 376/2014

1.This Regulation aims to improve aviation safety by ensuring that relevant safety information relating to civil aviation is reported, collected, stored, protected, exchanged, disseminated and analysed.

This Regulation ensures:

(a)that, where appropriate, safety action is taken in a timely manner based on analysis of the information collected;

(b)the continued availability of safety information by introducing rules on confidentiality and on the appropriate use of information and through the harmonised and enhanced protection of reporters and persons mentioned in occurrence reports; and

(c)that aviation safety risks are considered and dealt with at both Union level and national level.

2.The sole objective of occurrence reporting is the prevention of accidents and incidents and not to attribute blame or liability.

Quoted word for word from Regulation (EU) No 376/2014, Easy Access Rules for Occurrence Reporting, 27 Sep 2023 revision.

For the purposes of this Regulation the following definitions apply:

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(7)‘occurrence’ means any safety-related event which endangers or which, if not corrected or addressed, could endanger an aircraft, its occupants or any other person and includes in particular an accident or serious incident;

Quoted word for word from Regulation (EU) No 376/2014, Easy Access Rules for Occurrence Reporting, 27 Sep 2023 revision.

1.This Regulation lays down rules on:

(a)the reporting of occurrences which endanger or which, if not corrected or addressed, would endanger an aircraft, its occupants, any other person, equipment or installation affecting aircraft operations; and the reporting of other relevant safety-related information in that context;

(b)analysis and follow-up action in respect of reported occurrences and other safety-related information;

(c)the protection of aviation professionals;

(d)appropriate use collected safety information;

(e)the integration of information into the European Central Repository; and

(f)the dissemination of anonymised information to interested parties for the purpose of providing such parties with the information they need in order to improve aviation safety.

2.This Regulation applies to occurrences and other safety-related information involving civil aircraft to which Regulation (EU) 2018/1139 of the European Parliament and of the Council () applies.

However, this Regulation shall not apply to occurrences and other safety-related information involving unmanned aircraft for which a certificate or declaration is not required pursuant to Article 56(1) and (5) of Regulation (EU) 2018/1139, unless the occurrence or other safetyrelated information involving such unmanned aircraft resulted in a fatal or serious injury to a person or it involved aircraft other than unmanned aircraft.

Member States may decide to apply this Regulation also to occurrences and other safety-related information involving the aircraft to which Regulation (EU) 2018/1139 does not apply.

Quoted word for word from Regulation (EU) No 376/2014, Easy Access Rules for Occurrence Reporting, 27 Sep 2023 revision.

6.The following natural persons shall report the occurrences referred to in paragraph 1 through the system established in accordance with paragraph 2 by the organisation which employs, contracts or uses the services of the reporter or, failing that, through the system established in accordance with paragraph 3 by the Member State of establishment of their organisation, or by the State which issued, validated or converted the pilot’s licence, or through the system established in accordance with paragraph 4 by the Agency:

(a)the pilot in command, or, in cases where the pilot in command is unable to report the occurrence, any other crew member next in the chain of command of an aircraft registered in a Member State or an aircraft registered outside the Union but used by an operator for which a Member State ensures oversight of operations or an operator established in the Union;

(b)a person engaged in designing, manufacturing, continuous airworthiness monitoring, maintaining or modifying an aircraft, or any equipment or part thereof, under the oversight of a Member State or of the Agency;

(c)a person who signs an airworthiness review certificate, or a release to service in respect of an aircraft or any equipment or part thereof, under the oversight of a Member State or of the Agency;

(d)a person who performs a function which requires him or her to be authorised by a Member State as a staff member of an air traffic service provider entrusted with responsibilities related to air navigation services or as a flight information service officer;

(e)a person who performs a function connected with the safety management of an airport to which Regulation (EC) No 1008/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council () applies;

(f)a person who performs a function connected with the installation, modification, maintenance, repair, overhaul, flight-checking or inspection of air navigation facilities for which a Member State ensures the oversight;

(g)a person who performs a function connected with the ground handling of aircraft, including fuelling, loadsheet preparation, loading, de-icing and towing at an airport covered by Regulation (EC) No 1008/2008.

Quoted word for word from Regulation (EU) No 376/2014, Easy Access Rules for Occurrence Reporting, 27 Sep 2023 revision.