Obligations concerning critical events
Article 10
1. Member States shall ensure that ATFM procedures for handling critical events are established and published by the central unit for ATFM, in order to minimise disruption to the EATMN. 2. In the preparation for critical events, ATS units and airport managing bodies shall coordinate the relevance and content of the contingency procedures with operators affected by critical events, including any adjustment to priority rules. The contingency procedures shall include: (a) organisational and coordination arrangements, (b) ATFM measures to manage access to affected areas to prevent excessive air traffic demand compared with declared capacity of the whole or part of the airspace or airports concerned, (c) circumstances, conditions and procedures for the application of priority rules for flights, which respect Member States’ essential security or defence policy interests, (d) recovery arrangements.