Establishing the type certification basis and type design definition Developing compliance demonstration programmes Releasing airworthiness documentation to the National Military Airworthiness Authorities (NMAA) Managing certification projects with NMAA Managing the Airbus engineering departments & System Support Center, to ensure certification objectives are met Supporting the Minor / Major modification certification activities, or repair changes Delivering Airworthiness Risk Assessments for Reportable Occurrences and launch associated actions Negotiating with AA the action plan to remove unsafe conditions Ensuring certification of inspections and modification Service Bulletins Ensuring the development of appropriate airworthiness directives Providing advice and expertise to the Chief Engineer, and engineering teams in general, on certification and airworthiness issues Reviewing and accepting airworthiness deliverables from engineering departments