Compliance
Article 1
Implementing Regulation (EU) No 923/2012 is amended as follows: (1) Article 2 is amended as follows: (a) point 21 is replaced by the following: ‘21. “AIRMET” means information issued by a meteorological watch office concerning the occurrence or expected occurrence of specified en-route weather phenomena which may affect the safety of low-level aircraft operations and of the development of those phenomena in time and space, and which was not already included in the forecast issued for low-level flights in the flight information region concerned or sub-area thereof;’; (b) point 89a is replaced by the following: ‘89a “instrument approach operations” means an approach and landing using instruments for navigation guidance based on an instrument approach procedure. There are two methods for executing instrument approach operations: (a) a two-dimensional (2D) instrument approach operation, using lateral navigation guidance only; and (b) a three-dimensional (3D) instrument approach operation, using both lateral and vertical navigation guidance;’; (c) point 119 is replaced by the following: ‘119. “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;’; (d) the following points 148, 149, 150 and 151 are added: ‘148. “meteorological watch office (MWO)” means an office monitoring meteorological conditions affecting flight operations and providing information 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 within its specified area of responsibility; 149. “runway condition report (RCR)” means a comprehensive standardised report relating to the conditions of the runway surface and their effect on the aeroplane landing and take-off performance, described by means of runway conditions code; 150. “communicable disease” means an infectious disease caused by a contagious agent which is transmitted from person to person by direct contact with an infected individual or by indirect means such as exposure to a vector, animal, fomite, product or environment, or exchange of fluid, which is contaminated with the contagious agent; 151. “public health” means all elements related to health, namely health status, including morbidity and disability, the determinants having an effect on that health status, health care needs, resources allocated to health care, the provision of, and universal access to, health care as well as health care expenditure and financing, and the causes of mortality.’; (2) Article 3 is replaced by the following: ‘Article 3 Compliance The Member States shall ensure compliance with the common rules and provisions set out in the Annex to this Regulation without prejudice to the flexibility provisions contained in Article 71 of Regulation (EU) 2018/1139 and the safeguards contained in Article 13 of Regulation (EC) No 549/2004.’ ; (3) Article 5 is deleted; (4) Article 6 is replaced by the following: ‘Further to the entry into force of this Regulation, the Commission shall establish, with the support of Eurocontrol and EASA, a permanent process: (a) to ensure that any amendments adopted under the framework of the Chicago Convention which are of relevance with respect to the scope of this Regulation are monitored and analysed; and (b) where necessary, to develop proposals for amendments to the Annex to this Regulation.’; (5) the Annex is amended in accordance with the Annex to this Regulation.