Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/403 of 30 January 2024 amending Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/373 as regards the definition of SIGMET and certain requirements for special visual flight rules and air traffic control clearances

• CELEX: Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/403
• Articles: 3

Article 1

Annexes I, IV and VI to Regulation (EU) 2017/373 are amended in accordance with the Annex to this Regulation.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union .

It shall apply from 1 May 2025.

Schedules & Appendices

ANNEX

ANNEX

Annexes I, IV and VI to Regulation (EU) 2017/373 are amended as follows:

(1)

in Annex I, point (93) is replaced by the following:

‘(93)

“SIGMET” means information issued by a meteorological watch office concerning the occurrence or expected occurrence of specified en-route weather and other phenomena in the atmosphere which may affect the safety of aircraft operations and of the development of those phenomena in time and space;’;

(2)

in Annex IV, subpart B, point ATS.TR.270 is amended as follows:

(a)

the introductory phrase of point (a) is replaced by the following:

‘Special VFR flights may be authorised to operate within a control zone, subject to an ATC clearance. Except when otherwise permitted by the competent authority for helicopters in special cases such as, but not limited to, police, medical, search and rescue operations and firefighting flights, the following additional conditions shall apply:’;

(b)

point (a)(3) is replaced by the following:

‘(3)

An air traffic control unit shall not issue a special VFR clearance to aircraft to take off or land at an aerodrome within a control zone, or enter the aerodrome traffic circuit within a control zone, when the reported meteorological conditions at that aerodrome are below the following minima:

(i)

the ground visibility is less than 1 500 m or, for helicopters, less than 800 m;

(ii)

the ceiling is less than 180 m (600 ft).’;

(3)

in Annex VI, subpart B, point AIS.TR.330 NOTAM, point (f) is replaced by the following:

‘(f)

Information concerning snow, slush, ice, frost, standing water or water associated with snow, slush, ice or frost on the movement area shall be disseminated by means of SNOWTAM and shall contain the information in the order shown in the SNOWTAM format of Appendix 3.’.