Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 923/2012 of 26 September 2012 laying down the common rules of the air and operational provisions regarding services and procedures in air navigation and amending Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1035/2011 and Regulations (EC) No 1265/2007, (EC) No 1794/2006, (EC) No 730/2006, (EC) No 1033/2006 and (EU) No 255/2010 (Text with EEA relevance)Text with EEA relevance

• Published date: 13 October 2012
• Subject Matter: trasporti,transportes,transports
• Official Gazette Publication: Gazzetta ufficiale dell’Unione europea, L 281, 13 ottobre 2012,Diario Oficial de la Unión Europea, L 281, 13 de octubre de 2012,Journal officiel de l’Union européenne, L 281, 13 octobre 2012

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Amended by:

		Official Journal
		No	page	date
►M1	COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) 2015/340 of 20 February 2015	L 63	1	6.3.2015
►M2	COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2016/1185 of 20 July 2016	L 196	3	21.7.2016
M3	COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2017/835 of 12 May 2017	L 124	35	17.5.2017
►M4	COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2020/469 of 14 February 2020	L 104	1	3.4.2020
M5	Amended by: COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2020/1177 of 7 August 2020	L 259	12	10.8.2020
M6	COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2020/886 of 26 June 2020	L 205	14	29.6.2020
►M7	COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2021/666 of 22 April 2021	L 139	187	23.4.2021

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COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) No 923/2012

of 26 September 2012

laying down the common rules of the air and operational provisions regarding services and procedures in air navigation and amending Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1035/2011 and Regulations (EC) No 1265/2007, (EC) No 1794/2006, (EC) No 730/2006, (EC) No 1033/2006 and (EU) No 255/2010

(Text with EEA relevance)

Article 1

Subject matter and scope

1.

The objective of this Regulation is to establish the common rules of the air and operational provisions regarding services and procedures in air navigation that shall be applicable to general air traffic within the scope of Regulation (EC) No 551/2004.

2.

This Regulation shall apply in particular to airspace users and aircraft engaged in general air traffic:

(a)

operating into, within or out of the Union;

(b)

bearing the nationality and registration marks of a Member State of the Union, and operating in any airspace to the extent that they do not conflict with the rules published by the country having jurisdiction over the territory overflown.

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3.

This Regulation shall also apply to the competent authorities of the Member States, air navigation service providers, aerodrome operators and ground personnel engaged in aircraft operations.

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4.

This Regulation shall not apply to model aircraft and toy aircraft. However, Member States shall ensure that national rules are established to ensure that model aircraft and toy aircraft are operated in such a manner as to minimise hazards related to civil aviation safety, to persons, property or other aircraft.

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Article 2

Definitions

For the purpose of this Regulation the following definitions shall apply:

1.

‘accuracy’ means a degree of conformance between the estimated or measured value and the true value;

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3.

‘advisory airspace’ means an airspace of defined dimensions, or designated route, within which air traffic advisory service is available;

4.

‘advisory route’ means a designated route along which air traffic advisory service is available;

5.

‘aerobatic flight’ means manoeuvres intentionally performed by an aircraft involving an abrupt change in its attitude, an abnormal attitude, or an abnormal variation in speed, not necessary for normal flight or for instruction for licenses or ratings other than aerobatic rating;

6.

‘aerodrome’ means a defined area (including any buildings, installations and equipment) on land or water or on a fixed, fixed off-shore or floating structure intended to be used either wholly or in part for the arrival, departure and surface movement of aircraft;

7.

‘aerodrome control service’ means air traffic control service for aerodrome traffic;

8.

‘aerodrome control tower’ means a unit established to provide air traffic control service to aerodrome traffic;

9.

‘aerodrome traffic’ means all traffic on the manoeuvring area of an aerodrome and all aircraft flying in the vicinity of an aerodrome. An aircraft operating in the vicinity of an aerodrome includes but is not limited to aircraft entering or leaving an aerodrome traffic circuit;

10.

‘aerodrome traffic circuit’ means the specified path to be flown by aircraft operating in the vicinity of an aerodrome;

11.

‘aerodrome traffic zone’ means an airspace of defined dimensions established around an aerodrome for the protection of aerodrome traffic;

12.

‘aerial work’ means an aircraft operation in which an aircraft is used for specialised services such as agriculture, construction, photography, surveying, observation and patrol, search and rescue, aerial advertisement, etc.;

13.

‘Aeronautical Information Publication (AIP)’ means a publication issued by or with the authority of a State and containing aeronautical information of a lasting character essential to air navigation;

14.

‘aeronautical mobile service’ means a mobile service between aeronautical stations and aircraft stations, or between aircraft stations, in which survival craft stations may participate; emergency position-indicating radio beacon stations may also participate in this service on designated distress and emergency frequencies;

15.

‘aeronautical station’ means a land station in the aeronautical mobile service. In certain instances, an aeronautical station may be located, for example, on board ship or on a platform at sea;

16.

‘aeroplane’ means a power-driven heavier-than-air aircraft, deriving its lift in flight chiefly from aerodynamic reactions on surfaces which remain fixed under given conditions of flight;

17.

‘airborne collision avoidance system (ACAS)’ means an aircraft system based on secondary surveillance radar (SSR) transponder signals which operates independently of ground-based equipment to provide advice to the pilot on potential conflicting aircraft that are equipped with SSR transponders;

18.

‘aircraft’ means any machine that can derive support in the atmosphere from the reactions of the air other than the reactions of the air against the earth’s surface;

19.

‘aircraft address’ means a unique combination of 24 bits available for assignment to an aircraft for the purpose of air-ground communications, navigation and surveillance;

20.

‘aircraft observation’ means the evaluation of one or more meteorological elements made from an aircraft in flight;

21.

‘AIRMET information’ means information issued by a meteorological watch office concerning the occurrence or expected occurrence of specified en-route weather phenomena which may affect the safety of low-level aircraft operations and which was not already included in the forecast issued for low-level flights in the flight information region concerned or sub-area thereof;

22.

‘air-ground communication’ means two-way communication between aircraft and stations or locations on the surface of the earth;

23.

‘air-ground control radio station’ means an aeronautical telecommunication station having primary responsibility for handling communications pertaining to the operation and control of aircraft in a given area;

24.

‘air-report’ means a report from an aircraft in flight prepared in conformity with requirements for position, and operational and/or meteorological reporting;

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25.

‘air-taxiing’ means movement of a helicopter/vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) above the surface of an aerodrome, normally in ground effect and at a ground speed normally less than 37 km/h (20 kts);

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26.

‘air traffic’ means all aircraft in flight or operating on the manoeuvring area of an aerodrome;

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27.

‘air traffic advisory service’ means a service provided within advisory airspace to ensure separation, in so far as practical, between aircraft which are operating on instrument flight rules (IFR) flight plans;

28.

‘air traffic control (ATC) clearance’ means authorisation for an aircraft to proceed under conditions specified by an air traffic control unit;

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29.

‘air traffic control instruction’ means directives issued by air traffic control for the purpose of requiring a pilot to take a specific action;

30.

‘air traffic control service’ means a service provided for the purpose of:

(a)

preventing collisions:

(1)

between aircraft; and

(2)

on the manoeuvring area between aircraft and obstructions; and

(b)

expediting and maintaining an orderly flow of air traffic;

31.

‘air traffic control unit’ means a generic term meaning variously, area control centre, approach control unit or aerodrome control tower;

32.

‘air traffic service (ATS)’ means a generic term meaning variously, flight information service, alerting service, air traffic advisory service, air traffic control service (area control service, approach control service or aerodrome control service);

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