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Cover regulation · Initial Airworthiness and Environmental Protection · Regulation (EU) No 748/2012 · Article 1 – Article 12
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Article 1 Scope and definitions
This Regulation lays down, in accordance with Articles 19, 58 and 62 of Regulation (EU) 2018/1139 of the European Parliament and of the Council, common…
Article 2 Certification of products, parts, appliances, control and monitoring unit and control and monitoring unit components
Products, parts, appliances, control and monitoring units and control and monitoring unit components shall be issued with certificates as specified in…
Article 2a Transitional arrangements for certificates previously issued under Annex I (Part 21)
Article 2a - Transitional arrangements for certificates previously issued under Annex I (Part 21) 1.
Article 3 Continued validity of type-certificates and related certificates of airworthiness
With regard to products which had a type-certificate, or a document allowing the issuing of a certificate of airworthiness, issued before 28 September…
Article 4 Continued validity of supplemental type-certificates
With regard to supplemental type-certificates issued by a Member State under JAA procedures or applicable national procedures and with regard to changes…
Article 5
(deleted by Regulation (EU) No 69/2014, 27.01.2014)
Article 6 Continued validity of parts and appliances certificates
Approvals of parts and appliances issued by a Member State and valid on 28 September 2003 shall be deemed to have been issued in accordance with this…
Article 7 Permit to fly
The conditions determined before 28 March 2007 by the Member States for permits to fly or other airworthiness certificate issued for aircraft which did…
Article 7a Operational suitability data
The holder of an aircraft type-certificate issued before 17 February 2014 intending to deliver a new aircraft to an EU operator on or after 17 February…
Article 8 Design organisations
An organisation responsible for the design of products, parts, appliances, control and monitoring units and control and monitoring unit components, or…
Article 9 Production organisations
An organisation responsible for the manufacture of products, parts, appliances, control and monitoring units and control and monitoring unit components…
Article 10 Agency measures
The Agency shall develop acceptable means of compliance (“AMC”) which competent authorities, organisations and personnel may use to demonstrate…
Article 11 Repeal
Regulation (EC) No 1702/2003 is repealed. References to the repealed Regulation shall be construed as references to this Regulation and shall be read in…
Article 12 Entry into force
This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
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