Certified public use airports
Processing of changes
- Determination of the class of change: the changes, due to their complexity and their impact on safety, are classified into three types:
- Change of Class 1A: it requires the express approval of EASA prior to its implementation. EASA must be notified at least three months in advance.
- Change of class 1: it requires the express approval of EASA prior to its implementation. EASA must be notified at least 30 working days in advance.
- Change of class 2: it does not require express authorisation from EASA prior to its implementation, but it must be notified at least 30 working days before the planned date of implementation.
- Change of class 3: it does not require express authorisation or prior notification to AESA prior to its implementation. All class 3 changes made during one year by an airport shall be notified to EASA in the first quarter of the following year.
- Sending the application with the corresponding documentation attached.
- As appropriate, modification of the resolution or authorisation of the change.
Approval of Changes
Any planned action in the organisation, infrastructure or equipment, including new procedures or modifications or modifications thereto that were already in force, as well as the entry into force of new regulations affecting operational safety and its treatment is not, a priori, established on the day-to-day basis of the airport.
To manage the changes, aerodromes are subject to a change management procedure, which consists of the following parts:
AESA has drawn up a “General Technical Instruction for the Management of Change in Airports”, which aims to establish the conditions and particularities of the management and processing of changes by those airport managers to whom the certification requirement applies. This Instruction can be found in the section “EASA Material Guide”.
Each airport shall, in a specific manner, adapt the change management procedure it currently has in place to the references and contents of this instruction.
