4.  
For line maintenance, the actual layout of the contract the IATA Standard Ground Handling Agreement may be used as a basis, but this does not preclude CAD from ensuring that the content of the contract is acceptable to them, and especially that the contract allows the operator to properly exercise its maintenance responsibility. Those parts of a contract that have no bearing on the technical or operational aspects of airworthiness are outside the scope of this paragraph.

5.  
It is possible to contract another operator that is not directly approved under MCAR-145. In this case the operator’s continuing airworthiness management exposition should include appropriate procedures to ensure that all this contracted maintenance is ultimatelyperformed on time by organisations approved under MCAR-145 in accordance with the contracting operator’s data. In particular the quality system procedures should

place great emphasis on monitoring compliance with the above.  The list of MCAR-145 approved contractors, or a reference to this list, should be included in the operator’s continuing airworthiness management exposition.

6.  
Such a maintenance arrangement does not absolve the operator from its overall continuing airworthiness responsibility. Specifically, in order to accept the maintenance arrangement, CAD should be satisfied that such an arrangement allows the operator to ensure full compliance with responsibilities pursuant to MCAR-M.201.

7.  
The purpose of MCAR-M.708(c) is to ensure that all maintenance is carried out by properly approved MCAR-145 organisations. This does not preclude a primary maintenance arrangement with an operator that is not such an organisation, when it proves that such an arrangement  is in the interest  of the operator by simplifying  the management of its maintenance, and the operator keeps an appropriate control of it.

Such an arrangement should not preclude the operator from ensuring that all maintenance is performed by a MCAR-145 approved organisation and complying with the MCAR-M.201 continuing airworthiness responsibility requirements. Typicalexamples of such arrangements follow:
.  Component maintenance:
The operator may  find it more  appropriate to have a primary  contractor, that would despatch the components to appropriately approved organisations, rather than himself sending  different types of components  to various  maintenance  organisations approved under MCAR-145. The benefit for the operator is that the management of maintenance is simplified by having a single contact point for component maintenance. The operator remains  responsible for  ensuring that all maintenance is performed  by maintenance organisations approved under MCAR-145 and in accordance with the approved standard.
.  Aeroplane, engine and component maintenance:
The operator may wish to have a maintenance contract with another operator of the same type of aircraft not approved under MCAR-145.  A typical  case is that  of a dry-leased aeroplane  between  operators, where the parties, for  consistency  or continuity reasons (especially for short term lease agreements) find it appropriate to keep the aeroplane under the current maintenance arrangement. Where this arrangement involves various MCAR-145 approved contractors, it might be more manageable for the lessee operator to have a single contract with the lessor operator. Such an  arrangement should not be understood as a transfer of responsibility to  the lessor operator: the lessee operator, being the approved operator  of the aircraft,  remains  responsible  for the continuing airworthiness of the aeroplane in performing the MCAR-M.708 functions, and employing the MCAR-M.706 continuing airworthiness management group of persons and staff.
In essence, this does not alter the intent of  MCAR-M.201 (h) in that it also requires that the operator  has to  establish  a written maintenance  contract  acceptable  to the CAD and, whatever type of acceptable arrangement is made, the operator is required to exercise the same level of control on contracted maintenance, particularly through  the MCAR-M.706 (c) continuing  airworthiness management  group of persons and quality system as referred to in MCAR-M.712.
　
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