Commission Regulation (EC) No 668/2008 of 15 July 2008 amending Annexes II to V of Regulation (EC) No 2096/2005 laying down common requirements for the provision of air navigation services, as regards working methods and operating procedures (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2008-07-15
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: air safety, air traffic, air transport, meteorology, organisation of transport, provision of services

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Official Journal of the European Union

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 668/2008

of 15 July 2008

amending Annexes II to V of Regulation (EC) No 2096/2005 laying down common requirements for
the provision of air navigation services, as regards working methods and operating procedures

(Text with EEA relevance)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

‘4. WORKING METHODS AND OPERATING PROCEDURES

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Regulation (EC) No 550/2004 of the European
Parliament and the Council of 10 March 2004 on the provision
of air navigation services in the single European sky (the service
provision Regulation) (1), and in particular Articles 4 and 6
thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

III,

Annexes II,
IV and V of Commission Regulation
(EC) No 2096/2005 of 20 December 2005 laying
down common requirements for the provision of air
navigation services (2) refer to various annexes of
the
Convention on International Civil Aviation. Since the
adoption of Regulation (EC) No 2096/2005 those
annexes have been amended by the International Civil
letters
Aviation Organisation as
2001/74 dated 10 August 2001; 2003/29 dated
28 March 2003; 2004/16 dated 26 March 2004;
2005/35 and 2005/39 dated 24 March 2005; 2006/38
dated 24 March 2006; 2006/64 dated 18 August 2006;
2007/11, 2007/13, 2007/19, 2007/20, 2007/23 and
2007/24 dated 30 March 2007. The references in Regu­
lation (EC) No 2096/2005 should be updated in order to
meet the international legal obligations of Member States
and ensure coherence with the international regulatory
framework.

indicated in State

Regulation (EC) No 2096/2005 should therefore be
amended accordingly.

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
accordance with the opinion of
Sky
Committee,

Single

the

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Regulation (EC) No 2096/2005 is amended as follows:

1.

in Annex II, point 4 is replaced by the following:

A provider of air traffic services shall be able to demon­
strate that its working methods and operating procedures
are compliant with the standards
in the following
annexes
to the Convention on International Civil
Aviation as far as they are relevant for the provision of
air traffic services in the airspace concerned:

(a) Annex 2 on rules of the air in its 10th edition of July
2005, including all amendments up to No 40,

(b) Annex 10 on aeronautical

telecommunications,
Volume II on communication Procedures including
those with PANS Status
sixth edition of
October 2001,
including all amendments up to
No 82,

in its

(c) Annex 11 on air traffic services in its 13th edition of
July 2001, including all amendments up to No 45.’;

2.

in Annex III, point 2 is replaced by the following:

‘2. WORKING METHODS AND OPERATING PROCEDURES

A provider of meteorological services shall be able to
demonstrate that
its working methods and operating
procedures are compliant with the standards in the
following annexes to the Convention on International
the
Civil Aviation as
provision of meteorological
in the airspace
concerned:

they are relevant

services

far as

for

(a) Annex 3 on meteorological service for international
July 2007,

air navigation in its 16th edition of
including all amendments up to No 74,

(b) Annex 11 on air traffic services in its 13th edition of
July 2001, including all amendments up to No 45,

(c) Annex 14 on aerodromes in the following versions:

(i) Volume I on aerodrome design and operations in
including all

July 2004,

its fourth edition of
amendments up to No 9,

(1) OJ L 96, 31.3.2004, p. 10.
(2) OJ L 335, 21.12.2005, p. 13. Regulation as last amended by Regu­

lation (EC) No 482/2008 (OJ L 141, 31.5.2008, p. 5).

(ii) Volume II on heliports in its second edition of
including all amendments up to No

July 1995,
3.’;

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3.

in Annex IV, point 2 is replaced by the following:

‘2. WORKING METHODS AND OPERATING PROCEDURES

A provider of aeronautical information services shall be
able to demonstrate that
its working methods and
operating procedures are compliant with the standards
in the following annexes to the Convention on Inter­
national Civil Aviation as far as they are relevant for
information services in
the provision of aeronautical
the airspace concerned:

(a) Annex 3 on meteorological service for international
July 2007,

air navigation in its 16th edition of
including all amendments up to No 74,

(b) Annex 4 on aeronautical charts in its 10th edition of
July 2001, including all amendments up to No 54,

(c) Annex 15 on aeronautical information services in its
12th edition of July 2004, including all amendments
up to No 34.’;

4.

in Annex V, point 3 is replaced by the following:

‘3. WORKING METHODS AND OPERATING PROCEDURES

A provider of communication, navigation or surveillance
services shall be able to demonstrate that its working
methods and operating procedures are compliant with
telecom­
the standards of Annex 10 on aeronautical

munications to the Convention on International Civil
Aviation in the following versions as far as they are
relevant for the provision of communication, navigation
or surveillance services in the airspace concerned:

(a) Volume I on radio navigation aids in its sixth edition
of July 2006, including all amendments up to No 82,

(b) Volume II on communication procedures including
sixth edition of
including all amendments up to

those with PANS status
October 2001,
No 82,

in its

(c) Volume III on communications systems in its second
edition of July 2007 including all amendments up to
No 82,

(d) Volume

IV on surveillance

radar

avoidance systems
fourth edition of
in its
2007, including all amendments up to No 82,

and collision
July

(e) Volume V on aeronautical radio frequency spectrum
July 2001,

utilisation in its
second edition of
including all amendments up to No 82.’

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the 20th day following
the European
that of
Union.

its publication in the Official

Journal of

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 15 July 2008.

For the Commission

Antonio TAJANI
Vice-President