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What is AESA?

AESA IS THE STATE BODY THAT ENSURES THAT CIVILAVIATION STANDARDS ARE OBSERVED IN ALLAERONAUTICAL ACTIVITY IN SPAIN.

AESA takes onresponsibilityfor:• Aviation safety.• Certification.• Maintenance.• Licenses.• Operations. • Aircraft registration records.• Aerial Works.• Sport aviation.• Training.• Aeronautical medicine.• Air navigation.• Air cargo.• Aeronautical Training.• Aviation Security.• Interoperability.• Single European Sky.• Aeronautical easements.• Airspace.• Facilitation.• Aerodromes.• Territorial integration.• Environmental planning.• Economic and financial management.

We workto:• Ensure that aviation safety and securitystandards transport in our country areobserved.

• Promote the development,establishment and application ofnational and international laws on airsafety and passenger protection.

• Implement a safety and security culture.• Protect the passenger rights agents andsociety, in order to create air transportwhich is:– Safe.– Effective.– Efficient.– Quality.– Environmentally.– Accessible.– Fluent.

And:• Be a model institution for society.• Provide safety, security, quality andsustainability to the national andinternational Civil Aviation system.

• Be a reference for Europe.

With competences in:Oversight, Inspection, Planning / Management of:• Air Transport.• Aviation Safety.• Air Navigation.• Airport Security.

Also:Assessing the risks in aviationsafety.Through:• Hazard detection.• Risk analysis and assessment.• Continuous process for thecontrol and risk mitigation.

Spanish Aviation Safety Agency is a body attached to the StateDepartment for Transport at the Ministerio de Fomento through

Generalthe Directorate of Civil Aviation.

And:It has the legal authority toimpose penalties for breaches of civil aviation standards.AESA is governed by the State AgenciesLaw1 and by its own Articles ofAssociation2. It is self managing as regardsfinance and human resources with a moreflexible legal framework dealing witheffectiveness and quality future changes inCivil Aviation.

It is an Aeronautical Authority.

1. Law 28/2006, of 18 July, concerning State Agencies for theimprovement of Public Services.

2. Royal Decree 184/2008, of 8 February which approvesAESA’s articles of association.

Our international presenceInternational Civil Aviation Organization

(ICAO)European Civil Aviation Conference

(ECAC)European Union

(Aviation Group and Committees)European Aviation Safety Agency

(EASA)European Organization for the Safety of Air Navigation

(EUROCONTROL)

www.seguridadaerea.es

AGENCIA ESTATAL DE SEGURIDAD AÉREASPANISH AVIATION SAFETY AND SECURITY AGENCYA

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We workto:• Ensure that aviation safety and security

standards transport in our country areobserved.


• Implement a safety and security culture.• Protect the passenger rights agents and

society, in order to create air transportwhich is:– Safe.– Effective.– Efficient.– Quality.– Environmentally.– Accessible.– Fluent.

And:• Be a model institution for society.• Provide safety, security, quality and

sustainability to the national andinternational Civil Aviation system.



Also:Assessing the risks in aviationsafety.Through:• Hazard detection.• Risk analysis and assessment.• Continuous process for the

control and risk mitigation.












(EUROCONTROL)



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We workto:• Ensure that aviation safety and security

standards transport in our country areobserved.


• Implement a safety and security culture.• Protect the passenger rights agents and

society, in order to create air transportwhich is:– Safe.– Effective.– Efficient.– Quality.– Environmentally.– Accessible.– Fluent.

And:• Be a model institution for society.• Provide safety, security, quality and

sustainability to the national andinternational Civil Aviation system.



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control and risk mitigation.












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With regard to:

Airlines• Issues operating licences and monitorsthe economic situation of Spanishairlines.

• Issues Airline Operator Certificates(AOC).

• Certifies airlines from third countriesflying to Spain.

• Authorizes commercial exploitationlicenses for air traffic in Spain.

• Authorizes and monitors aerial works.• Monitors the operational safety ofairlines, in the case of the organizationsfor continuing airworthinessmanagement (CAMO), and for flightcrews training, operation approvals,and operation manual and operationalprocedures.

Qué Aeronautical training• Approves training courses.• Authorizes training schools.• Oversees training organizations.• Issues certifications, licenses andauthorizations for: Pilots, Civil Air TrafficControllers, Passenger Cabin Crew,Maintenance Technicians, Ultra-LightAircraft, and Balloons.

• Authorizes FTO (Flying TrainingOrganization) and TRTO (Type RatingTraining Organization) and JAR-FCL(European standard for aeronauticaltraining) training organizations.

• Monitors Civil Air Traffic Controllerstraining.

Passenger Rights• Provides advisory services and informsusers of air transport of their rights whenrequired, and monitors compliance.

• Investigates events reported by users.• Mediates among companies and users inthe event of a complaint.

General aviation • Authorizes private aviation clubsand flight schools for pilot training.

• Authorizes Flight fields.• Grants authorization for Ultra-Light aircraft fields and licenses.

• Grants authorization and licenses for motorless flights.

• Grants authorization and licensesfor Aerostation.

Environment• Monitors compliance with establishedstandards.

• Ensures that the measures for acousticattenuation and pollution from gasemissions are adopted.

• Promotes actions for working towardsthe sustainability of air transport.

• Collaborates in the development ofenvironmental legislation and standards.(national and international)

Aeronautical medicine• Issues certificates to aeronautical staff:Pilots, Civil Air Traffic Controllers,Passenger Cabin Crew…

• Authorizes aeronautical medicalorganizations.

OurguaranteeAudits carried out on us:• International Civil Aviation Organization(ICAO).

• European Commission (EU).• European Aviation Safety Agency(EASA).

• European Organization forthe Safety of Air Navigation (EUROCONTROL).

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RISKCONTROL ANDMITIGATION

DATAANALYSIS

RISKASSESSMENT

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STATESAFETY

PROGRAMMEACTIVITIES

Preventive safetyAESA assesses andmanages risks

AESA

With regard to:

Aircraft:• Collaborates with the European AviationSafety Agency (EASA) in aeronauticalproduct type certification.

• Collaborates with EASA in the monitoringof organizations involved in the designof aeronautical products and those forthe AIRBUS aircraft manufacturer.

• Collaborates with EASA in the approvaland monitoring of organizations involvedin the maintenance of aeronauticalproducts in third countries.

• Collaborates with EASA in issuingAirworthiness Directives to solve aircraftsafety problems.

• Approval and monitoring of organizationsinvolved in the manufacture andmaintenance of aeronautical productsin Spain.

• Issuing of individual air navigabilitycertificates for each aircraft.

• Approval of maintenance programmes,supervision of their implementationand inspection of maintenanceorganizations.

• Approval of maintenance procedures.• Approval of operational procedures.• Management of the Aircraft RegistrationRecords.

• Management of the building of aircraftby amateurs.

• Issuing of the type certificates for ultra-light motorized aircraft (ULM).

• Approval of airline companies’ safetyprogrammes.

Infrastructure:(airports and air navigation)• Certification of airports.• Authorisation of private aerodromesand heliports.

• Operational approval of Air NavigationSystems.

• Implementation of Air Navigationprograms.

• Oversight of Air Traffic Management.• Oversight of airport and air navigationsystems.

• Setting up of airport security mechanisms(Security).

• Rulings on buildings and installationsaffected by aeronautical easements.

• Authorization of ground supportcompanies (handling) and RegulatedAgents.

• Approval of airport security programmes.• Issuing of certificate to:– Regulated Agents and Known Consigners.– Suppliers of in-flight provisions.– ATM / ANS Suppliers.– Suppliers of ATS training.

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THREATDETECTION

Working oncontinuousimprovementof safety

INTERNAL ANDEXTERNAL AUDITS

MONITORING QUALITYMANAGEMENT SYSTEMS

AIRCRAFT INSPECTION

INSPECTION OFORGANISATIONS

AIRLINE COMPANYINSPECTION

IN-FLIGHT OPERATIONINSPECTION

MAINTENANCE INSPECTION

INSPECTION OFNAVIGATION SYSTEMS

AIRPORT INSPECTION

TRAINING INSPECTION

PASSENGER RIGHTSINSPECTION

RISK MANAGEMENT

PREVENTIVE ACTION

ASSESSMENTOF THE EFFICACYOF THE MITIGATION

MEASURES


What is AESA?



We workto:• Ensure that aviation safety and securitystandards transport in our country areobserved.


• Implement a safety and security culture.• Protect the passenger rights agents andsociety, in order to create air transportwhich is:– Safe.– Effective.– Efficient.– Quality.– Environmentally.– Accessible.– Fluent.

And:• Be a model institution for society.• Provide safety, security, quality andsustainability to the national andinternational Civil Aviation system.



Also:Assessing the risks in aviationsafety.Through:• Hazard detection.• Risk analysis and assessment.• Continuous process for thecontrol and risk mitigation.












(EUROCONTROL)



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