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The MARPA COS guidance represents a voluntary system under which PMA manufacturers track their parts through their entire life cycle in order to be able to collect reliability data. The purpose of the data is to support parts reliability – that will allow manufacturers to proactively respond to potential safety issues early enough in the life cycle of the parts that the potential safety issue may not have even manifested itself. The data allows PMA companies to provide the same level of response and support to its customers that their competitors provide.
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and the government about these issues and in 2008, the FAA released a
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MARPA also works with the government agencies to help promote reasonable standards of commercial fairness in the industry. MARPA is a frequent contributor to the rule making process in the United States. For example, from 2009 through 2011, MARPA's president (Jason
Dickstein) served on the FAA Aviation Rulemaking Committee (ARC) for
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European Aviation Safety Agency has issued a decision verifying that PMA parts from the United States are accepted and used in European Community member countries. This decision followed a long-standing policy of the Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA). The tenets of European acceptance also exist
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Fairness remained an issue as some of the larger manufacturers of aircraft products attempted to inhibit trade in PMAs by inaccurately claiming that PMA parts were not subject to the same
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Dickstein. During the 1990s, the three men were members of the FAA Aviation Rulemaking Advisory Committee (ARAC) Part 21 Working Group, which was charged with developing updated manufacturing regulations. During their work on the working group,
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each year to share information about the rules that apply to PMA, changing legal standards that could influence PMA manufacturers, and industry conditions that affect PMA. There usually one or more analysis of current aviation industry economic conditions and airline market conditions in order to
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adopt PMA rules. Some non-US manufacturers have started to investigate the benefits that MARPA can bring to them. In the future, MARPA's manufacturing membership may reflect a more international base.
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the three men came to understand the value of and need for a trade association to represent the interests of the PMA manufacturing community. On May 18, 1998 they held a "MARPA Kick-off Meeting" at
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facilitate industry strategic planning. The Conference generally features significant participation by the FAA and other government entities (like
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