ATM/ANS.OR.A.010 Application for a limited certificate

(a)Notwithstanding point (b), the air traffic services provider may apply for a certificate limited to the provision of services in the airspace under the responsibility of the Member State where its principal place of operation or, if any, registered office is located, when it provides or plans to provide services only with respect to one or more of the following categories:

(1)aerial work;

(2)general aviation;

(3)commercial air transport limited to aircraft with less than 10 tonnes of maximum take-off mass or less than 20 passenger seats;

(4)commercial air transport with less than 10 000 movements per year, regardless of the maximum take-off mass and the number of passenger seats; for the purposes of this provision, ‘movements’ means, in a given year, the average over the previous three years of the total number of take-offs and landings.

(b)In addition, the following air navigation service providers may also apply for a limited certificate:

(1)an air navigation service provider, other than a provider of air traffic services, with a gross annual turnover of EUR 1 000 000 or less in relation to the services they provide or plan to provide;

(2)an air navigation service provider providing aerodrome flight information services by operating regularly not more than one working position at any aerodrome.

(c)As determined by the competent authority, an air navigation service provider applying for a limited certificate in accordance with points (a) or (b)(1) shall comply, as a minimum, with the following requirements set out in:

(1)point ATM/ANS.OR.B.001 Technical and operational competence and capability;

(2)point ATM/ANS.OR.B.005 Management system;

(3)point ATM/ANS.OR.B.020 Personnel requirements;

(4)point ATM/ANS.OR.A.075 Open and transparent provision of services;

(5)Annexes IV, V, VI and VIII, where those requirements are applicable in light of the services that the service provider provides or plans to provide, in accordance with Article 6.

(d)As determined by the competent authority, the air navigation service provider applying for a limited certificate in accordance with point (b)(2) shall comply, as a minimum, with the requirements set out in points (c)(1) to (c)(4) and with the specific requirements set out in Annex IV.

(e)An applicant for a limited certificate shall submit an application to the competent authority in a form and manner established by the competent authority.