Article 7 3.

preparing suggestions to and advising Union institutions on all aspects of development and implementation of Union policies and rules relating to safety investigations and the prevention of accidents and incidents;

promoting the sharing of information useful for the improvement of aviation safety and actively promoting structured cooperation between safety investigation authorities, the Commission, EASA and national civil aviation authorities;

coordinating and organising, where appropriate, ‘peer reviews’, relevant training activities and skills development programmes for investigators;

promoting best safety investigation practices with a view to developing a common Union safety investigation methodology and drawing up an inventory of such practices;

strengthening the investigating capacities of the safety investigation authorities, in particular by developing and managing a framework for sharing resources;

providing, at the request of the safety investigation authorities for the purpose of the application of Article 6, appropriate assistance, including, but not limited to, a list of investigators, equipment and capabilities available in other Member States for potential use by the authority conducting an investigation;

having access to information contained in the database referred to in Article 18, and analyse the safety recommendations therein with a view to identifying important safety recommendations of Union-wide relevance.