Regulation (EU) 2020/2226 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 December 2020 on certain aspects of aviation safety with regard to the end of the transition period provided for in the Agreement on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community (Text with EEA relevance)

Article 1U.K.Subject matter and scope

1.This Regulation lays down specific provisions, in view of the end of the transition period, for certain aviation safety certificates issued under Regulation (EC) No 216/2008 or (EU) 2018/1139 to natural and legal persons having their principal place of business in the United Kingdom.

2.This Regulation shall apply to the design certificates listed in the Annex which are valid on the day before the date of application of this Regulation and which have been issued by the Agency to natural or legal persons having their principal place of business in the United Kingdom or by a design organisation having its principal place of business in the United Kingdom.

3.This Regulation shall apply only in respect of aircraft registered in the Union.

Article 2U.K.Definitions

For the purposes of this Regulation, the corresponding definitions of Regulation (EU) 2018/1139 and of the delegated and implementing acts adopted under that Regulation and under Regulation (EC) No 216/2008 shall apply.

Article 3U.K.Validity of certificates

The design certificates referred to in Article 1(2) shall be deemed to have been issued with effect from the date referred to in Article 5(2):

(1)

by the Agency, in respect of certificates referred to in Article 1(2) that were issued by the Agency;

(2)

by an organisation approved by the Agency, in respect of certificates referred to in Article 1(2) that were issued by a design organisation approved by the Agency.

Article 4U.K.Rules and obligations regarding certificates governed by Article 3

1.The certificates governed by Article 3 of this Regulation are subject to the rules applicable to them in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2018/1139 and the relevant implementing and delegated acts adopted by virtue of that Regulation or of Regulation (EC) No 216/2008, in particular Commission Regulation (EU) No 748/2012(1).

2.The Agency shall have the powers established in Regulation (EU) 2018/1139 and in the relevant implementing and delegated acts adopted under that Regulation and under Regulation (EC) No 216/2008 with regard to entities having their principal place of business in a third country.

Article 5U.K.Entry into force and application

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

2.This Regulation shall apply from the day following that on which Union law ceases to apply to and in the United Kingdom pursuant to Articles 126 and 127 of the Withdrawal Agreement.

3.This Regulation shall not apply if an agreement between the Union and the United Kingdom governing matters of civil aviation safety related to the design certificates referred to in Article 1(2) of this Regulation has entered into force or, as the case may be, provisionally applies by the date referred to in paragraph 2 of this Article.

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

Done at Brussels, 23 December 2020.

For the European Parliament

The President

D. M. Sassoli

For the Council