1. General information

1.1. Introduction

The Supplier Product Support Agreement application enables consulting of all individual Supplier's contractual support contracts. These contracts are negotiated between Airbus and each Supplier for the benefit of Airbus' customers, for maintaining their aircraft in service.

1.2. General

Both the SSC and GCP are assigned to Airbus Customers or to any third party acquiring, hiring or leasing the aircraft, through clause 17 of the aircraft purchase agreement.

The SPSA is available on the Airbus World via the ‘On-Line Services’ or within the Material Management Community and is distributed by Airbus Technical Data & Documentations in accordance with the instructions contained in the Customer’s Aircraft Purchase Agreement (Exhibit G).

1.3. SPSA Contents

The SPSA contains the integral text of the SSC and GCP Agreements, together with the Part Numbers and associated guaranteed values, extracted from the Appendix A.

Please note that Part-Numbers listed in Appendix A, are those existing at the time of the signature of the SSC & GCP. The associated Guaranteed values shall remain valid during Customers specific guarantee period, in order to follow the evolution of Components, and when available, new part numbers and new guarantee values will be included in Appendix A. In addition, as new SSCs are made available replacing GCP contracts these will also be integrated.

Engines manufacturers are not included in the SPSA.

1.4. Labour and Material Indices: Changes only applicable to the Labour indices

Effective June 2003 the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics SIC data tables have been replaced by NAICS data. THIS AFFECTS ALL GCP450/650 and GCP2000 AGREEMENTS.

The four options that apply to our industry are:

National Employment, Hours and Earnings

Average Hourly Earnings of Production Workers *

Please note as of the 4^th of May 2007, the CES program underwent some internal changes to processing that required the modification of data type codes for accessing CES data. The data type codes are the last two digits of the series ID codes that are used to extract ECS data from the online LABSTAT database. This update became effective with the April press release on May 4, 2007. The new data type codes are as follows:

Series ID codes:

CEU3133640008 Industry: AEROSPACE PRODUCT AND PARTS

CEU3133641108 Industry: AIRCRAFT

CEU3133641208 Industry: AIRCRAFT ENGINES AND ENGINE PARTS

CEU3133641308 Industry: OTHER AIRCRAFT PARTS AND EQUIPMENT

*From 2009: Average Hourly Earnings of Production and non supervisory Employees

The path for the web-site data is as follows:

Start with the home page (http://www.bls.gov)

In the “Subject Area” select “Employment”

Click "National Employment" in the scroll menu.

Scroll down on the page and select “CES databases”

In the box “Employment, Hours, and Earnings-National”