9.—(1) Commission Regulation (EU) No 1321/2014 of 26 November 2014 on the continuing airworthiness of aircraft and aeronautical products, parts and appliances, and on the approval of organisations and personnel involved in these tasks(1) is amended as follows.
(2) In Article 4 (approvals for organisations involved in the continuing airworthiness of aircraft), after paragraph 1 insert—
“1A. By way of derogation from paragraph 1, organisations involved in the maintenance of components for installation in aircraft, whose principal place of business is in a third country, may demonstrate its capability by holding a maintenance organisation approval certificate, complete with the appropriate rating and limitation, issued by that State for the part and appliance for which it applies, provided:
(a)that State is the State in which maintenance of the component is undertaken; and
(b)the CAA has determined that the system of that State includes the same independent level of checking compliance as provided by this Regulation, either through an equivalent system of approvals of organisations or through direct involvement of the competent authority of that State.”.
EUR 2014/1321, amended by S.I. 2019/645 and 2020/1116. There are other amendments not relevant to this instrument.