Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/133 was issued on 28 January 2019. It introduces
additional airworthiness requirements for operations applicable to certain large aircraft that are
newly produced on the basis of a design which has already been certified by EASA. Some of those
requirements are also applicable to certain large aeroplanes that are already in service. The new
requirements that are introduced into Part-26 are intended to address the issues of the:
— crashworthiness of passenger and cabin crew seats (16-g seats);
— flame propagation and flame penetration resistance characteristics of thermal or acoustic
insulation materials; and
— replacement of halon in lavatory waste receptacles and handheld (portable) fire extinguishers
for use in cabins and crew compartments.
This Decision amends CS-26 by providing means to comply with the new requirements.

The objective of this Decision is to update and simplify the acceptable means of compliance (AMC) and guidance
material (GM) pertaining to ramp inspection in order to modernise and clarify them, and significantly reduce
the level of detail.
This Decision deleted the AMC and GM pertaining to ramp inspections, which were considered to be too
detailed, and transposes them into a ramp inspection manual, to be published by EASA. The resulting AMC and
GM were developed taking into account the comments received during the focused consultation with affected
stakeholders and advisory bodies on the draft provisions.
The amendments are expected to maintain the effectiveness of the ramp inspections performed by Member
States and the safety assessment of foreign Aircraft (SAFA) participating states and to allow these states to
make a better use of their resources, in accordance with risk-based principles.