Avionics Approval is a multilateral, international standard endorsed by key industry leaders that serves to meet a newly understood industry-wide need to assure customers and regulatory agencies that the electronic components in avionics equipment are selected and applied in a controlled process that is compatible with the end of the application.

To achieve Avionics Approval, certified organizations develop, document, and implement processes for managing the selection and use of electronic components in avionics equipment.

In addition to the requirements of ISO 9001 and IECQ Manufacturing Approval, avionics sub-assembly manufacturers complete the IEC/TS 62239 Electronic Component Management Plan (ECMP) established by IECQ to include consideration of electronic components end-of-life management.

Avionics Approval serves to safeguard consumers and to provide a market advantage to suppliers that comply.

About IECQ
The IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission) supplies the global market with multilateral standards and conformity assessment programs that are key to international trade in the electrical and electronics fields. IECQ (International Electrotechnical Commission Quality Assessment Scheme for Electronic Components) is the IEC's conformity assessment and product certification scheme focused on the quality assessment of electronic components and associated processes and materials.

IECQ conformity assessments are truly global in concept and practice, reducing trade barriers caused by different certification criteria in various countries and helping industry succeed and expand into new markets. By helping to remove significant delays and costs of multiple testing and approvals, IECQ conformity assessments enable industry to reach the market with greater speed and less expense.

IECQ provides internationally recognized, impartial, and independent assessment and certification programs, free of either buyers or sellers bias. Assessment criteria are known to the applicants and their stakeholders, yet information and data acquired during assessments are held in the strictest of confidence. Participants are provided continuing visibility in the Register of IECQ companies.