RPA Operator Certification Eligibility Criteria

In plain language

To get a Remote Operator Certificate (ReOC), your business must have a safe organizational structure, qualified staff, proper equipment, written procedures (including maintenance), and a designated chief remote pilot and maintenance controller.

Requirement as structured

To be eligible for certification as an RPA operator, an applicant must have an appropriate organizational structure, sufficient qualified and experienced personnel, suitable facilities and equipment, documented operational and maintenance procedures, and nominated individuals for chief remote pilot and maintenance controller.

Original regulatory text

(1A) Subject to regulation 11.055, CASA must certify an applicant as an RPA operator if the applicant is eligible to be certified as an RPA operator in accordance with this regulation. Note: Under regulation 201.004, an application may be made to the Administrative Review Tribunal for review of: (a) a decision refusing to grant, or cancelling, suspending or varying, a certificate; or (b) a decision imposing a condition on a certificate. See also section 31 of the Act. (1) A person is eligible to be certified as an RPA operator if: (a) the person has an organisation and structure that is appropriate for safe operation of RPA; and (b) the person has enough qualified and experienced personnel to undertake the proposed operations safely; and (c) the person has facilities and equipment appropriate to carry out the proposed operations using RPA of the type to be used; and (d) the person has suitable documented practices and procedures to do so, including practices and procedures for the maintenance of the operator’s RPASs; and (f) the person has nominated suitable persons to be its chief remote pilot and maintenance controller. (2) A body that is not a legal person is not eligible to be certified as an RPA operator. (3) Two or more persons cannot be certified jointly as an RPA operator.