Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1207/2011 of 22 November 2011 laying down requirements for the performance and the interoperability of surveillance for the single European sky (Text with EEA relevance)Text with EEA relevance

• Published date: 20 May 2020
• Subject Matter: trasporti,transports,transportes
• Official Gazette Publication: Gazzetta ufficiale dell’Unione europea, L 305, 23 novembre 2011,Journal officiel de l’Union européenne, L 305, 23 novembre 2011,Diario Oficial de la Unión Europea, L 305, 23 de noviembre de 2011

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►B COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) No 1207/2011 of 22 November 2011 laying down requirements for the performance and the interoperability of surveillance for the single European sky (Text with EEA relevance) (OJ L 305 23.11.2011, p. 35)

Amended by:

		Official Journal
		No	page	date
M1	COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) No 1028/2014 of 26 September 2014	L 284	7	30.9.2014
►M2	COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2017/386 of 6 March 2017	L 59	34	7.3.2017
►M3	COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2020/587 of 29 April 2020	L 138	1	30.4.2020
M4	COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2022/2 of 4 January 2022	L 1	1	5.1.2022

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COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) No 1207/2011

of 22 November 2011

laying down requirements for the performance and the interoperability of surveillance for the single European sky

(Text with EEA relevance)

Article 1

Subject matter

This Regulation lays down requirements on the systems contributing to the provision of surveillance data, their constituents and associated procedures in order to ensure the harmonisation of performance, the interoperability and the efficiency of these systems within the European air traffic management network (EATMN) and for the purpose of civil-military coordination.

Article 2

Scope

1.

This Regulation shall apply to the surveillance chain constituted of:

(a)

airborne surveillance systems, their constituents and associated procedures;

(b)

ground-based surveillance systems, their constituents and associated procedures;

(c)

surveillance data processing systems, their constituents and associated procedures;

(d)

ground-to-ground communications systems used for distribution of surveillance data, their constituents and associated procedures.

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2.

This Regulation shall apply to all flights operating as general air traffic in accordance with instrument flight rules within the Single European Sky airspace with the exception of Article 7(3) and 7(4) which shall apply to all flights operating as general air traffic

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3.

This Regulation shall apply to air traffic service providers which provide air traffic control services based on surveillance data, and to communication, navigation or surveillance service providers which operate systems laid down in paragraph 1.

Article 3

Definitions

For the purpose of this Regulation, the definitions in Article 2 of Regulation (EC) No 549/2004 shall apply.

The following definitions shall also apply:

(1)

‘surveillance data’ means any data item, time stamped or not, within the surveillance system that pertains to:

(a)

aircraft 2D position;

(b)

aircraft vertical position;

(c)

aircraft attitude;

(d)

aircraft identity;

(e)

24-bit ICAO aircraft address;

(f)

aircraft intent;

(g)

aircraft velocity;

(h)

aircraft acceleration;

(2)

‘operator’ means a person, organisation or enterprise engaged in or offering to engage in an aircraft operation;

(3)

‘ADS-B’ means automatic dependent surveillance — broadcast, a surveillance technique in which aircraft automatically provide, via a data link, data derived from on-board navigation and position-fixing systems;

(4)

‘ADS-B Out’ means the provision of ADS-B surveillance data from an aircraft transmit perspective;

(5)

‘harmful interference’ means interference that prevents the achievement of the performance requirements;

(6)

‘surveillance chain’ means a system composed of the aggregation of airborne and ground-based constituents used to determine the respective surveillance data items of aircraft, including the surveillance data processing system, if deployed;

(7)

‘cooperative surveillance chain’ means a surveillance chain requiring both ground and airborne components to determine surveillance data items;

(8)

‘surveillance data processing system’ means a system that processes all surveillance inputs received to form a best estimate of the current aircraft surveillance data;

(9)

‘aircraft identification’ means a group of letters, figures or a combination thereof which is either identical to, or the coded equivalent of, the aircraft call sign to be used in air-to-ground communications, and which is used to identify the aircraft in ground-to-ground air traffic services communications;

(10)

‘State aircraft’ means any aircraft used for military, customs and police purposes;

(11)

‘transport type State aircraft’ means fixed wing State aircraft that are designed for the purpose of transporting persons and/or cargo;

(12)

‘extrapolate’ means to project, predict or extend known data based upon values within an already observed time interval;

(13)

‘coasted’ means extrapolated for a period longer than the ground surveillance systems update period;

(14)

‘time of applicability’ means the time at which the data item has been measured by the surveillance chain or the time for which it has been calculated by the surveillance chain;

(15)

‘accuracy’ means the degree of conformity of the provided value of a data item with its actual value at the time when the data item is output from the surveillance chain;

(16)

‘availability’ means the degree to which a system or component is operational and accessible when required for use;

(17)

‘integrity’ means the degree of undetected (at system level) non-conformity of the input value of the data item with its output value;

(18)

‘continuity’ means the probability that a system will perform its required function without unscheduled interruption, assuming that the system is available at the initiation of the intended operation;

(19)

‘timeliness’ means the difference between the time of output of a data item and the time of applicability of that data item.

Article 4

Performance requirements

1.

Air navigation service providers shall ensure seamless operations within the airspace under their responsibility and at the boundary with adjacent airspaces by applying appropriate minimum requirements for the separation of aircraft.

2.

Air navigation service providers shall ensure that systems referred to in points (b), (c) and (d) of Article 2(1) are deployed as necessary to support the minimum requirements for the separation of aircraft applied in accordance with paragraph 1.

3.

Air navigation service providers shall ensure that the output of the surveillance chain referred to in Article 2(1) complies with the performance requirements set out in Annex I provided that the airborne constituent functions used are compliant with the requirements set out in Annex II.

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Article 5

Interoperability requirements

1.

Air navigation service providers shall ensure that all surveillance data transferred from their systems identified in points (b) and (c) of Article 2(1) to other navigation service providers complies with the requirements set out in Annex III.

2.

Air navigation service providers when transferring surveillance data from their systems identified in points (b) and (c) of Article 2(1) to other air navigation service providers, shall establish formal arrangements with them for the exchange of the data in accordance with the requirements set out in Annex IV.

3.

Air navigation service providers shall ensure that, by 2 January 2020 at the latest, the cooperative surveillance chain has the necessary capability to allow them to establish individual aircraft identification using downlinked aircraft identification made available by aircraft equipped in accordance with Annex II.

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5.

By 7 December 2020 operators shall ensure that:

(a)

aircraft operating flights referred to in Article 2(2) are equipped with serviceable secondary surveillance radar transponders that comply with the following conditions:

(i)

they have the capabilities set out in Part A of Annex II;

(ii)

they have the continuity sufficient to avoid presenting an operational risk;

(b)

aircraft with a maximum certified take-off mass exceeding 5 700 kg or having a maximum cruising true airspeed capability greater than 250 knots, operating flights referred to in Article 2(2), with an individual certificate of airworthiness first issued on or after 7 June 1995, are equipped with serviceable secondary surveillance radar transponders that comply with the following conditions:

(i)

they have the capabilities set out in Parts A and B of Annex II;

(ii)

they have the continuity sufficient to avoid presenting an operational risk;

(c)

fixed wing aircraft with a maximum certified take-off mass exceeding 5 700 kg or having a maximum cruising true airspeed capability greater than 250 knots, operating flights referred to in Article 2(2), with an individual certificate of airworthiness first issued on or after 7 June 1995, are equipped with serviceable secondary surveillance radar transponders that comply with the following conditions:

(i)

they have the...