Are commercial operators or other types of Operators inspected?

Although the programme started in 1996 by inspecting commercial operators, today the programme includes:

a) SAFA inspections: any aircraft except those defined as State aircraft under the 1944 Convention on International Civil Aviation of Chicago;

b) SACA inspections: any aircraft except those carrying out military, customs, police, search and rescue, fire-fighting, border control, coastal surveillance or similar activities or services, as set out in Regulation (EU) 2018/1139 Article 2 and Regulation (EU) No 965/2012, Annex II, Subpart RAMP.