perform sound check | prepare and run line check | perform line check | perform technical sound check

conduct safety checks before moving aircraft onto stand | undertake safety checks before moving aircraft onto stand | perform necessary checks before moving aircraft onto stand | undertake necessary checks before moving aircraft onto stand

complete technical tasks with great care | performing technical tasks with great care | perform a technical task with great care | perform technical tasks with great care

verifying the continuing existence of a variety

technical verification of the variety

engineering flight test

National Monitoring Unit Technical Procedures Audit

13. Notes that the Institute also carried out technical verifications for all funded projects as part of its ex ante verifications; regrets, however, that the lack of quantifiable targets hampered an effective assessment of project activities and results; believes that such a situation could and should have been avoided and calls on the Institute to remedy it and to i ...[+++]nform the discharge authority on the progress in this regard within the framework of the 2012 discharge follow-up;

16. Notes that the Agency's technical staff members need to be commonly recruited from national aviation authorities and the aviation industry; understands that the staff members must have sufficient and up-to-date technical experience of working in the field of aviation to perform a technical check of documents demonstrating compliance for the purposes of ensuring an adequate level of aviation safety as requested by the applicable Union legislation; is concerned however that this situation could cause conflicts of interest if a staff member recruited from an aircraft manufacturer ...[+++] works and takes decisions at the Agency on the certification of the aircraft he/she used to work on while employed by the manufacturer and, if not detected and adequately managed, could result in a conflict of interest situation; recognises however that the Agency has put in place a certification procedure where impartiality of the decision-making process is guaranteed through the collegiality of the technical assessments and the decision-making process itself; also understands that the Agency is in the process of setting up an Agency-wide policy in the area of codes of conduct including identification, prevention, monitoring and dealing with the consequences of potential conflict of interest cases which will help the Agency to further improve the identification and handling of conflict of interests situations in such a way that aviation safety is not put at risk at any time;

17. Notes that the Agency's technical staff members need to be commonly recruited from national aviation authorities and the aviation industry; understands that the staff members must have sufficient and up-to-date technical experience of working in the field of aviation to perform a technical check of documents demonstrating compliance for the purposes of ensuring an adequate level of aviation safety as requested by the applicable Union legislation; is concerned however that this situation could cause conflicts of interest if a staff member recruited from an aircraft manufacturer ...[+++] works and takes decisions at the Agency on the certification of the aircraft he/she used to work on while employed by the manufacturer and, if not detected and adequately managed, could result in a conflict of interest situation; recognises however that the Agency has put in place a certification procedure where impartiality of the decision-making process is guaranteed through the collegiality of the technical assessments and the decision-making process itself; also understands that the Agency is in the process of setting up an Agency-wide policy in the area of codes of conduct including identification, prevention, monitoring and dealing with the consequences of potential conflict of interest cases which will help the Agency to further improve the identification and handling of conflict of interests situations in such a way that aviation safety is not put at risk at any time;

(6) Persons conducting an audit shall have a knowledge of the methods of conducting audits and inspections, and a knowledge of access control and monitoring techniques, and shall be independent of the security procedures being audited unless that is impracticable because of the size and type of ferry facility.