Definitions
Article 2
For the purposes of this Regulation, the following definitions shall apply: (1) ‘fees’ means the amounts levied by the Agency and payable by applicants for certification tasks; (2) ‘charges’ means the amounts levied by the Agency for services provided other than certification tasks; (3) ‘certification task’ means any activity carried out by the Agency directly or indirectly for the purposes of issuing, maintaining or amending certificates and registering, maintaining and amending declarations pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2018/1139 [and the delegated and implementing acts adopted on the basis of that Regulation]; (4) ‘service’ means any activity carried out by the Agency other than certification tasks, including the supply of goods or provision of technical advice; (5) ‘applicant’ means any natural or legal person that requests a certification task or a service provided by the Agency; (6) ‘billing cycle’ means the 12-month period applied to multiannual projects and to surveillance tasks, which starts: (a) for fees and charges listed in Part I, Tables 1 to 6, of the Annex, on the date on which the application is received; (b) for authorisation fees listed in Part I,Table 7A, of the Annex, on the date on which the application is received; (c) for monitoring fees listed in Part I, Table 7A, of the Annex, on the date on which the certificate is issued; (d) for fees listed in Part I, Table 8, of the Annex, on 1 June following the issuance of the certificate; (e) for approval fees listed in Part I, Tables 9A to 22, of the Annex, on the date on which the application is received; (f) for surveillance fees listed in Part I, Tables 9A to 22, of the Annex, on the date on which the certificate is issued; (g) for transfer preparation fees listed in Part I, Tables 16A, 17A, 19A and 20A; of the Annex, on the date on which the certificate is issued; (h) for issuance charge listed in Part I, Table 23, of the Annex, on the date on which the application is received; (i) for renewal charge listed in Part I, Table 23, of the Annex, on 1 February following the issuance of the certificate; (j) for subscription charges listed in Part I, Table 24, of the Annex, on the date on which access to the platform is granted; (k) for applications subject to deferred initiation as referred to in Article 10(4) on the date on which the Agency initiates the performance of the tasks associated with that application; (7) ‘certification specification’ or ‘CS’ means a certification specification adopted pursuant to Article 76(3) of Regulation (EU) 2018/1139 and published on the Agency’s website. (8) ‘VTOL’ means rotorcraft or any other heavier-than-air aircraft that has the capability of vertical take-off and/or vertical landing; (9) ‘HTOL’ means any heavier-than-air aircraft that is not a VTOL; (10) ‘VTOL Large’ means CS-29 and CS-27 CAT A rotorcraft; (11) ‘VTOL Small’ means CS-27 rotorcraft with maximum take-off weight (MTOW) below 3 175 kg and limited to 4 seats, excluding pilot; (12) ‘VTOL Medium’ means other CS-27 rotorcraft; (13) ‘VTOL Very Light’ means rotorcraft of simple design with MTOW below 600 kg, limited to 2 seats including pilot, not powered by turbine and/or rocket engines and restricted to VFR day operations; (14) ‘rotorcraft’ means power-driven, heavier-than-air aircraft that depend principally for their support in flight on the lift generated by up to two rotors; (15) ‘VTOL-capable aircraft’ or ‘VCA’ means power-driven, heavier-than-air aircraft, other than aeroplane or rotorcraft, capable of performing vertical take-off and landing by means of lift and thrust units used to provide lift during take-off and landing; (16) ‘high-performance aircraft in the weight category up to 5 700 kg’ means aeroplanes that have an MMO (Maximum Operating Mach number) greater than 0,6 and/or a maximum operating altitude above 25 000 ft; (17) ‘airships small’ means: (a) all hot-air airships independent of their size; (b) gas airships up to a volume of 2 000 m 3 ; (18) ‘airships medium’ means gas airships with a volume between 2 000 m 3 and 20 000 m 3 ; (19) ‘airships large’ means gas airships with a volume of more than 20 000 m 3 .