Our international partners

We're a member of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and work with aviation regulatory authorities overseas to promote aviation safety and airworthiness of aviation products.

We have a number of agreements related to:

• certification
• maintenance
• transport cooperation.

Agệncia Nacional de Aviacậo Civil, Brazil (ANAC)

ANAC and CASA have agreements to accept each other’s airworthiness approvals of:

• aeronautical products
• maintenance facilities and alteration and/or modification facilities
• maintenance personnel
• flight simulator evaluation and qualification.

Read the agreements:

• Memorandum of understanding on airworthiness between Australia and Brazil (PDF, 2.99 MB)
• Implementation procedures for the acceptance of airworthiness approval of aeronautical products between Australia and Brazil (PDF, 2.04 MB) .

Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC)

CAAC and CASA have agreements to accept each other’s airworthiness approvals of:

• aeronautical products
• maintenance facilities and alteration and/or modification facilities
• maintenance personnel
• flight simulator evaluation and qualification.

Read the agreements:

• Memorandum of understanding on airworthiness between Australia and China (PDF, 1.1 MB)
• Implementation procedures for the acceptance of airworthiness approval of aeronautical products between Australia and China (PDF, 1.16 MB)

Civil Aviation Authority of New Zealand (CAA)

CAA and CASA work together on:

• Arrangement on mutual recognition of aviation-related certification between Australia and New Zealand (PDF, 67.54 KB)
• Operational arrangement for the mutual recognition of air operator certificates between Australia and New Zealand (PDF, 126.51 KB)

Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAA)

CAA and CASA have agreements to:

• enhance partnership and cooperation in training and knowledge exchange
• share safety information and technical arrangements on airworthiness certification and aviation maintenance.

Read the agreements:

• Memorandum of understanding on aviation safety between Australia and Singapore (PDF, 153.25 KB)
• Technical arrangement for airworthiness certification between Australia and Singapore (PDF, 4.02 MB)
• Technical arrangement on aviation maintenance between Australia and Singapore (PDF, 1.69 MB)

European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA)

We work with EASA to oversee the Airbus A380 fleet:

Arrangement on enhanced cooperation about oversight of the Airbus A380 fleet (PDF, 295.11 KB)

Federal Aviation Administration, United States (FAA)

We work with the FAA and have developed a bilateral aviation safety agreement (BASA) to provide for cooperation to:

• sustain equivalent levels of aviation safety
• accept of each other’s approvals, evaluation and monitoring of civil aeronautical:
  • products
  • personnel
  • facilities.

Read the agreements:

• Memorandum of understanding on aviation safety between Australia and United States of America (PDF, 179.79 KB)
• Implementation procedures agreement for airworthiness between Australia and United States (PDF, 260.76 KB)
• Implementation procedures agreement for airworthiness between Australia and United States - addendum (PDF, 86.72 KB)
• Implementation procedures agreement for airworthiness between Australia and United States - amendment 1 to revision 1 (PDF, 166.46 KB)

Also see the implementation procedures for airworthiness.

Hong Kong Civil Aviation Department (HKCAD)

We have a signed a technical arrangement with HKCAD to:

• develop procedures
• cooperate in safety quality objectives.

Read the agreement:

Technical arrangement on airworthiness certification between Australia and Hong Kong (PDF, 281.7 KB)

Office of Civil Aviation, the Ministry of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs (MLTM), Korea

MLTM and CASA have agreements to accept each other’s airworthiness approvals of:

• aeronautical products
• maintenance facilities and alteration and/or modification facilities
• maintenance personnel
• flight simulator evaluation and qualification.

Read the agreements:

• Memorandum of understanding on airworthiness between Australia and Korea (PDF, 687.52 KB)
• Implementation procedures for the acceptance of airworthiness approval of aeronautical products between Australia and Korea (PDF, 1.13 MB)