The Civil Aviation Safety Management Department is responsible for a performance of Compliance Monitoring Function (CMF) of the CAA management system. The Civil Aviation Safety Management Department compliance monitoring function is a key component of an effective management system.
The CMF is a group of activities consisting in a continuous assessment whether Civil Aviation Authority is adhering to EASA regulatory requirements, including internal policies and specific industry standards.
Its goal is to support the Agency to achieve consistent regulatory compliance and avoid areas of non-compliance.
Compliance monitoring function is accomplished by a dedicated group of CMF auditors and appointed experts. They provide the CMF findings system to the CAA senior management, by using the tools of the final assessment report and the corrective action agreement.
The essential element of the compliance monitoring function is safety risk management, the result of the risk analysis is taken into consideration in developing the CMF annual program.
In conclusion, a correctly implemented internal compliance monitoring system should assure an appropriate identification of possible common weaknesses or non-compliances and improving this way a level of the EASA standards implementation in the CAA.