Subpart B
Facility Requirements and Personnel
Qualifications
(a) The applicant must
maintain and operate at least one office (or a department of such an office) actively and principally engaged in the
promotion of international air cargo transportation over the lines of Air
carriers and the handling of consignments therein; and
(b) The facilities and equipment
at the principal business office must be adequate to maintain the files and
records required to operate the business of the air cargo agent.
(c) The principal business office may not be shared with, or used by,
another cargo agent; and
(d) Before Changing of Ownership and Changing Address, each certificate
holder must notify the ECAA and the notice must be:
(1) Submitted in writing at least 30 days before
the change of location; and
(2) Accompanied by any amendments needed for the
certificate;
(a) Each air cargo certificate holder shall
maintain sufficient qualified personnel to comply with the requirements of Air Cargo Agent
certification and the applicable rules of this part.
(1)
The staff shall
consist of at least two full-time competent persons qualified to provide the
services and handling functions described in 111.11 of this Subpart and the
applicant must provide evidence that;
(2)
Two such persons hold
the IATA/FIATA Introductory Course Diploma or have completed an equivalent
course offered by an IATA Air carriers, or any other course acceptable to the
ECAA offered by an airline or an ECAA approved commercial organization, and/or
ECAA approved training institute;
(3) Two such
persons at the time of application and at all times subsequent to registration,
hold a valid certificate, issued within
the previous two years, attesting to the bearer's having followed a recognized
training course in Dangerous Goods Handling and passed a written examination
based on that course;
(b) Failure to renew the certificate of
Dangerous Goods course of training by a date specified by the ECAA, with the result
that the Agent no longer fulfils the conditions of this Subparagraph, shall be
grounds for the ECAA to review of the Agent by the ECAA' inspectors.
(c) <span
lang="EN-US">Air Cargo Agent shall send personnel to
receive relevant training by an approved ECAA training facility or by a related
association commissioned by ECAA.
111.11 Processing and Handling
(a) The applicant must offer the public the
premises, qualified staff and equipment necessary for the performance of the
following functions as a minimum:
(b) Quoting carriers' rates,
charges and conditions pertaining to such rates and charges,
(c) Assisting customers in
completing the required formalities for the transportation of cargo by air,
including reservation services,
(d) Delivering (or arranging for
delivery of) consignments to an Air carriers at any Airport designated by the Air
carriers for general acceptance of all consignments ready for carriage,
(e) Accepting for carriage and
delivering (or arranging for delivery) to an Air carriers Dangerous Goods in
accordance with the applicable Dangerous Goods regulations,
(f) Collecting charges from
customers, and remitting monies due to carriers;
(g) Adhering to security control measures as prescribed by the Aviation Security Sector, and supplemented from time to time by the ECAA. The AVSEC Administrator may, on his own initiative or at the request of ECAA conduct an examination of Agent(s), to determine that such security control measures prescribed by the ECAA are applied.