ML.A.401 Maintenance data

(a)The person or organisation maintaining an aircraft shall only use applicable maintenance data during the performance of maintenance.

(b)For the purposes of this Annex, “applicable maintenance data” means any of the following:

1.any applicable requirement, procedure, standard or information issued by the competent authority or the Agency;

2.any applicable AD;

3.the applicable ICA and other maintenance instructions, issued by the type-certificate holder, supplemental type-certificate holder, declarant of a declaration of design compliance and any other organisation that publishes such data in accordance with Annex I (Part 21) or, as applicable, Annex Ib (Part 21 Light) to Regulation (EU) No 748/2012;

4.for components approved for installation by the design approval holder or the declarant of a declaration of design compliance, the applicable maintenance instructions published by the component manufacturers and acceptable to the design approval holder or the declarant of a declaration of design compliance;

5.any applicable data issued in accordance with point 145.A.45(d).