The OSAC regulatory monitoring is an important part of compliance monitoring for many aviation organisations operating in France.
Beyond regulations, AMC, GM and other publications issued by EASA, organisations must also monitor information and documents published at national level by OSAC.
To simplify this process, ComplyAir now integrates several OSAC documentary sources directly into its regulatory monitoring platform:
The objective is to help compliance, airworthiness and maintenance teams find publications relevant to their activities more easily, without having to monitor multiple separate sources.
For aviation organisations operating in France, regulatory monitoring does not stop with European publications issued by EASA.
OSAC publishes and relays various types of documents that support the application of airworthiness and maintenance requirements in France.
Depending on their nature, these publications may:
This information may therefore be directly relevant to CAMOs, Part-145, Part-21 and Part-147 organisations, operators and other continuing airworthiness professionals.
The challenge is that these publications add to the many other sources already monitored by compliance teams.
Organisations must identify new documents, determine which ones apply to them, and then retain a record of their assessment.
This is exactly what ComplyAir aims to simplify.
OSAC Regulatory Monitoring helps organisations follow regulatory and documentary developments identified as relevant to the areas supervised by OSAC.
It provides a useful source for identifying changes that may have an impact on affected organisations.
OSAC Flash publications are designed to quickly draw users’ attention to a regulatory, technical or safety-related topic.
They can highlight situations requiring particular attention or timely consideration by aviation organisations.
Information Bulletins (BI) and Recommendation Bulletins (BR) provide information, recommendations and points of attention relating in particular to airworthiness, maintenance and compliance.
They complement regulatory texts by providing additional operational guidance on specific topics.
Airworthiness Directives prescribe mandatory actions for affected aircraft when an issue related to design, production or maintenance requires corrective action.
They may require, for example:
For affected organisations, monitoring these publications can therefore have a direct operational impact.
Note: for Airworthiness Directives issued by EASA or a foreign State of Design authority and applicable under the European regulatory framework, the EASA website remains the reference source. The integration of OSAC publications complements the regulatory monitoring process and does not replace the obligation to consult the relevant official regulatory sources.
OSAC Procedures and Guides provide practical information on the application of regulations and on processes related to oversight carried out by OSAC.
These documents notably clarify the procedures associated with the issue, amendment and continued validity of authorisations, approvals and certificates, and support organisations in applying regulatory requirements.
They cover a wide range of areas, including:
For compliance teams, these documents are particularly useful because they help explain not only which requirement applies, but also certain practical expectations regarding its implementation.
The challenge is not simply gaining access to documents.
The real objective is to integrate them into a structured regulatory monitoring process.
By integrating OSAC publications, ComplyAir enables organisations to centralise the regulatory sources applicable to their activities within a single environment.
Teams no longer need to constantly move between different websites to manually reconstruct their regulatory monitoring process.
This centralisation helps organisations to:
Centralising more publications is only useful if teams can quickly identify which ones are actually relevant.
A Part-145 organisation, a CAMO and a Part-21 production organisation do not necessarily need to assess the same publications.
ComplyAir therefore enables users to filter information according to the organisation’s regulatory scope and activities.
The objective is not to send compliance teams more information.
It is the opposite: reduce the noise so they can focus on what genuinely requires their attention.
Users can therefore identify more quickly which publications may require:
Receiving a new publication is only the first step.
To demonstrate that a regulatory monitoring process is genuinely effective, an organisation must also be able to show what it did with the information received.
When a new publication is identified, several questions need to be answered:
ComplyAir helps structure this process and retain the history of each regulatory assessment.
Regulatory monitoring is no longer limited to an accumulation of emails, bookmarks and PDF files.
It becomes a genuinely traceable compliance process.
OSAC regulatory monitoring is not limited to a single type of publication.
Regulatory monitoring publications, Flash publications, BI/BR, Airworthiness Directives, Procedures and Guides can all provide important information for an organisation’s compliance, maintenance or continuing airworthiness activities.
By integrating these sources into ComplyAir, teams can now:
The objective remains the same: enable aviation professionals to spend less time searching for information and more time analysing what actually changes for their organisation.
