3.6 Administrations
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3.6 Administrations

  3.6.1 The Administration reviews the delivered documentation; states further requirements for documentation if necessary, can request verification of achieved results and eventually grants approval.

  3.6.2 This means that the Administration needs to be in a position to assess whether the design has been sufficiently examined and whether any risks have been reduced acceptably and thus should have sufficient knowledge of the subject to evaluate the adequacy of the delivered information and the assumptions made. The Administration should make the final decision for applying these Guidelines to approve alternative and/or equivalent design, and the final responsibility of design approval rests with the Administration.


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