Advocacy & Policy

Berry Amendment

• Berry Amendment Fact Sheet (PDF)
• Berry Amendment Statute Language (PDF)
• DFARS Guidance (PDF)
• DOD's Frequently Asked Questions Regarding the Berry Amendment

Specialty Metals

• Specialty Metals FAQs

• Policy Paper: Industry Perspectives on the National Aeronautics Policy (PDF)

Capacity- Air Traffic Capacity & Delay

• Ensuring JPDO Success (PDF)
• The National Economic Impact of Civil Aviation

Environmental Issues Portal

• Aviation and Climate Change: The Views of Aviation Industry Stakeholders
  Executive Summary (PDF)
• Aviation and Climate Change: The Views of Aviation Industry Stakeholders
• FAA Emissions & Dispersion Modeling System Reference Manual (PDF)
• ICAO CAEP/3 Economic Analysis of Noise & Emissions Options (PDF)
• Emissions Reduction Technology Workshop (PDF)
• Aviation and the Environment: A National Vision Statement, Framework for Goals and Recommended Actions (PDF)

Safety

• AIA Report on High Bypass Ratio Turbine Engine Uncontained Rotor Events and Small Fragment Threat Characterization - Volume 1 (PDF)
• AIA Report on High Bypass Ratio Turbine Engine Uncontained Rotor Events and Small Fragment Threat Characterization - Volume 2 (PDF)
• AIA and the Commercial Aviation Safety Team (PDF)
• Commercial Aviation Safety Team - Fact Sheet (PDF)
• Safer Skies/CAST Safety Enhancements (PDF)

• White Paper: How the Aerospace Industry is Facing the Lead-free Challenge (PDF)
• European REACH Legislation, European Aerospace Companies' Interpretation Guideline - June 2007 (PDF)
• Presentation: Reducing the Uncertainties of Interspecies Extrapolation - June 12, 2007 (PDF)
• Presentation: Hypothesis-Based Weight of Evidence and its Bearing on Uncertainty Analysis in Risk Assessment - June 12, 2007 (PDF)

REACH (Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals)
Below are the draft updated materials used during the 2008 AIA REACH Supplier Training sessions. The intent of the presentations is to provide a general and simplified explanation of REACH as it pertains to the US aerospace industry.

PLEASE NOTE: Sections 6 and 7 are where a majority of the updates occur.


These presentations should not to be considered legal advice or guidance. Users are encouraged to visit the European Chemicals Agency Navigator website. This website was developed by ECHA to assist industry and authorities to understand and meet REACH obligations. The website is: http://guidance.echa.europa.eu/

REACH Workshop Presentations:

• Section 1 - Introduction and What is REACH
• Section 2 - REACH at a Glance
• Section 3 - Digging Deeper into Registration
• Section 4 - Digging Deeper into Authorization and Restriction
  
• Section 5 - Digging Deeper into Communication and Notification
• Section 6 - Managment of REACH in the Aerospace Sector
• Section 7 - What's New from 2008
• Section 8 - What Actions Do I Take
• Section 9 - Further Information

• Global Principles of Business Ethics for the Aerospace and Defense Industry
  
• Joint Statement of Adherence
  

• Report: The Future of Aerospace Standardization (PDF)