Subject matter
This Regulation lays down the rules and procedures for the functioning and management of a repository of information necessary to ensure effective cooperation between the Agency and the national competent authorities concerning the exercise of their tasks relating to certification, oversight and enforcement under Regulation (EU) 2018/1139.
Definitions
1. For the purposes of this Regulation, the definitions of Regulations (EU) 2018/1139, (EU) 2016/679, (EU) 2018/1725, and Commission Implementing Regulations (EU) 2019/947 ( 5 ) and (EU) 2021/664 ( 6 ) shall apply.
2. The following definitions shall also apply:
(a)
‘authorised users’ means the Commission, the Agency, national competent authorities and any competent authority of the Member State entrusted with the investigation of civil aviation accidents and incidents as laid down in Article 74(6), first sentence, of Regulation (EU) 2018/1139;
(b)
‘interface’ means the point at which independent and often unrelated systems connect and act on or communicate with each other;
(c)
‘authorised staff’ means staff of the authorised users who have received access to the repository;
(d)
‘information object category’ means the type of information falling within the scope of Article 74(1) of Regulation (EU) 2018/1139 to be exchanged and accessed by the authorised users;
(e)
‘information object’ means an individually exchanged piece of information which shall always correspond to the information object category and be compatible with its information format;
(f)
‘information format’ means a pre-defined structure of the information object category consisting of a scheme of fields corresponding to detailed types of content within each information object category and vocabularies made of limited sets of permissible values associated to each field;
(g)
‘interested party’ means public authorities of the European Union institutions, agencies and bodies and Member States’ public authorities, natural and legal persons who are subject to an information object as defined in Annex I to this Regulation and qualified entities accredited pursuant to Article 69 of Regulation (EU) 2018/1139.