Article 10 Amendments to Regulations (EC) No 730/2006, (EC) No 1033/2006, (EC) No 1794/2006, (EC) No 1265/2007, (EU) No 255/2010 and Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1035/2011

1.Regulation (EC) No 730/2006 is amended as follows:

(a)Article 2(3) and (4) shall be replaced by the following: ‘3. “IFR” means the symbol used to designate instrument flight rules;

4.“VFR” means the symbol used to designate visual flight rules.’

2.Regulation (EC) No 1033/2006 is amended as follows:

(a)Article 2(2), point 8, shall be replaced by the following: ‘8. “IFR” means the symbol used to designate instrument flight rules.’;

(b)Article 3(1) shall be replaced by the following: ‘1. The provisions specified in the Annex shall apply to the submission, acceptance and distribution of flight plans for every flight subject to this Regulation and to all changes to a key item in a flight plan in the pre-flight phase in accordance with this Regulation.’;

(c)the heading and first indent of the Annex shall be replaced by the following: ‘PROVISIONS REFERRED TO IN ARTICLE 3(1)

1.Section 4 of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 923/2012.’

3.Regulation (EC) No 1794/2006 is amended as follows:

(a)Article 2(c) and (d) shall be replaced by the following: ‘(c) “IFR” means the symbol used to designate instrument flight rules;

(d)“VFR” means the symbol used to designate visual flight rules.’.

4.Regulation (EC) No 1265/2007 is amended as follows:

(a)Article 2(5) shall be replaced by the following: ‘5. “flights operated under visual flight rules” (VFR flights) means any flights conducted in accordance with visual flight rules.’.

5.Regulation (EU) No 255/2010 is amended as follows:

(a)Article 2(3) shall be replaced by the following: ‘3. “IFR” means the symbol used to designate instrument flight rules’.

6.Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1035/2011 is amended as follows:

(a)the reference in Annex II, point 4(a), to ‘Annex 2 on rules of the air in its 10th edition of July 2005’ shall be replaced by a reference to ‘Implementing Regulation (EU) No 923/2012’;

(b)the reference in Annex II, point 4(c), to ‘Annex 11 on air traffic services in its 13th edition of July 2001, including all amendments up to No 47-B’ shall be amended by adding at the end of that sentence ‘and Implementing Regulation (EU) No 923/2012 as applicable.’;

(c)the reference in Annex III, point 2(b), to ‘Annex 11 on air traffic services in its 13th edition of July 2001, including all amendments up to No 47-B’ shall be amended by adding at the end of that sentence ‘and Implementing Regulation (EU) No 923/2012 as applicable;’