PARIS — Barely a week after European regulators ordered inspections of the entire Airbus A380 fleet for cracks in a wing component, the company confirmed Friday that it was recommending the replacement of a half-dozen rivets near the jet’s nose with stronger ones.

The modification, which the European Aviation Safety Agency said it expected to make mandatory within the next month for all sixty-eight A380s currently in service, aims to reduce the risk that the affected fasteners might fail and cause an in-flight emergency.

Marcella Muratore, an Airbus spokeswoman, said the company had identified the problem with the aluminum rivets in October and had started replacing them on aircraft still in production with rivets made of titanium, a more robust metal. The rivets in question connect the plane’s radome, or nose cone, to the fuselage.

Ms. Muratore said the latest modification was “totally unrelated” to numerous hairline cracks that were first found late last year in dozens of L-shaped brackets that connect the aluminum skin of the A380’s enormous wings to its structural ribs.