International Focus
MARPA is based in the United States and mostly made up of US-based companies because the United States was the first country to have a body of regulations that supported government-approved manufacturing of aftermarket aircraft parts. Other countries have begun to investigated options to support such industries.
The European Aviation Safety Agency has issued a decision verifying that PMA parts from the United States are accepted and used in European Community member countries. This decision followed a long-standing policy of the Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA). The tenets of European acceptance also exist in the bilateral agreements between the United States and a number of European nations.
In 2010, MARPA appeared on a panel at the FAA / EASA International Safety Meeting. The panel also include Eurocopter and both FAA and EASA senior management. The purpose of the panel was to explore the safety paradigms that could be introduced to address the relationships between the aftermarket and the OEM market. MARPA's presentation focused on the Association's initiatives designed to provide a foundation for data gathering, data analysis, predictive risk management, and cooperative hazard mitigation.
MARPA's air carrier and maintenance facility members include a number of non-US parties.
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