Catalogue description Air Registration Board and Civil Aviation Authority: Requirements Steering Committee: Minutes, Papers and Correspondence

The Requirements Steering Committee was set up in 1955 under the auspices of the Air Registration Board. It had three main functions. Firstly, to steer requirements policy; deciding where effort was needed on particular requirements and balancing the general progress of the technical work. Secondly, an executive function, ensuring that decisions of the committee were reflected in the work of the board. Thirdly, a function of approval in clearing the paper work for the various co-ordinating committees and for inclusion in the British Civil Airworthiness Requirements.

The committee continued when the Civil Aviation Authority's Airworthiness Division took over the functions of the Air Registration Board in 1972. In 1979 the committee was reconstituted with more formal terms of reference:

• to formulate general policy and procedure governing British Civil Airworthiness Requirements;
• to initiate proposals for new requirement activity in particular areas;
• to review progress on requirements work and change priorities and staff effort, as necessary;
• to approve proposals (expressed as broad intentions) for additions to or amendments of British Civil Airworthiness Requirements; and
• to agree on departments to be responsible for producing specific proposals to implement the broad intentions, and to state priorities in relation to other work of the Civil Aviation Authority.