Gentlemen, can I make a suggestion?
Find a nice cynical way to deal with this crap.
I have a business in electronics (30 years now) and we have been bombarded with all kinds of crap. BS5750, CE, ISO9000, ROHS, you name it.
A lot of it is sponsored not by Wonderful Europe but by fellow businessmen - people who make a living out of selling "consultancy" time, at anything up to £1000/day if EMC lab time is involved.
The electronics trade press carries constant righteous crap articles (written by journos who were failed engineers) about how such and such stupid reg will be enforced with strict penalties and how this is right and proper.
Many of their advertisers are electronics component distributors who nowadays are cardboard box shifters who add exactly zero value and just waste a couple of hours of your time while their stupid know-nothing sales rep takes you to lunch. Years ago, one company (Macro) employed mostly pretty women, so that was at least good fun (they knew nothing too but a good looking woman gets away with that every time), and obviously they were immensely successful, but eventually they had to stop the practice after some equal rights body set them up with bogus interview candidates. Anyway, these stupid distis are always desperately looking for ways to make the good old commodity-level components (which are cheap and plentiful) obsolete and forcing users to comply with new "standards" is always a good gravy train.
In the early 1990s a lot of people made loads of £ selling self adhesive "CE" stickers which would get stuck on everything.
Similarly, you get an "ROHS" (lead-free) rubber stamp which goes onto every carton. The Chinese print them onto everything as standard, even if it contains tampons.
Every time a new reg comes out, there is a mad panic as all the quality managers (invariably socially disfunctional little men who probably plane spot as their hobby) send out a load of forms for the company's suppliers to fill in, with questions like "do you have a system for segregating defective product" (yeah, Sir, actually, we deliberately mix up the crap with the good and send it all out of the door together
). The other day I had one such QM on the phone, British Rail no less, pointing out that the EN number in one of my data sheets became obsolete about 10 years ago and can I please re-issue another certificate referring to the new number. I told him politely to take his EN # and put it somewhere warm and dark; his business wasn't big enough to cover my time ordering the ISO documents and reading them.
Then we get export documents, 6 copies, with special wording certifying that the goods are made in the UK etc. The reality is that the box we send out could contain Chinese tampons and nobody will notice or care. The world is full of warehouses full of filing cabinets where this stuff is filed by endless streams of socially disfunctional little men.
Now we have ROHS, mandating lead-free solder and components and obsoleting vast swathes of equipment and designs, exposing soldered parts to much higher temperatures, and resulting in "non compliant" component stocks which have to go in the skip. Lots of people (Brits!) rubbing their hands. The more sensible firms just carry on and ignore it, or pretend to use one of the exemptions like "control and monitoring equipment".
Anyway....
What has happened in electronics is that you print up a form for everything, and sign it and rubber stamp it. It doesn't matter if it isn't really applicable; if it looks good, nobody cares.
For frequently repeated text you get a rubber stamp made. Very cheap.
Every label has "CE" on it. The regulars know it stands for "Chinese Export" and nobody cares.
If you want ISO9000, you get a consultant in for a few k, generate a load of forms, a Quality Manual (which nobody reads and which can be full of crap), and you generate a streamlined system under which you can continue making the same old product, the same way, and the paperwork is done efficiently. Everybody knows this now, which is why ISO9000 means nothing at all.
It's possible that people who work in aircraft maintenance are not as IT savvy or as literate as electronics engineers and thus find paperwork hard (certainly my barely legible maintenance records are a poor indictment of the UK education system) but if you get organised you can do it.
The 7 pages somebody mentioned are almost certainly pretty regular stuff and one could do some kind of standard form which you just duplicate / cross out bits and sign/stamp at the bottom.
Nobody is going to read it anyway; the vast majority of maintenance records get lost when the company goes bust years later. Only the most diligent owners ask for copies and they are welcome to the wads of paper.
I know a firm which does a fair number of TCAS installations; they have the paperwork for FAA and EASA all copied up and they just send it all off with the fees; minimal work really.
Rubber stamps are cheap and you can get a whole load made for standard wordings. Or use a PC, standard texts etc.
It's a cynical approach but when the regulatory authority is anally retentive what do they expect? You play their game, no less and absolutely no more.