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Commission Regulation (EC) No 1033/2006 of 4 July 2006 laying down the requirements on procedures for flight plans in the pre-flight phase for the single European sky (Text with EEA relevance)
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[F11. The provisions specified in the Annex shall apply to the submission, acceptance and distribution of flight plans for every flight subject to this Regulation and to all changes to a key item in a flight plan in the pre-flight phase in accordance with this Regulation.]
2.Member States shall take the necessary measures to ensure that when IFPS receives a flight plan, or change thereto, it:
(a)checks it for compliance with the format and data conventions;
(b)checks it for completeness and, to the extent possible, for accuracy;
(c)takes action, if necessary, to make it acceptable to the air traffic services; and
(d)indicates acceptance of the flight plan or changes thereto to the originator.
3.Member States shall take the necessary measures to ensure that IFPS communicates to all affected ATS units the accepted flight plan and any accepted pre-flight phase changes to the key items of the flight plan and associated update messages.
4.The originator, when not being the operator or the pilot, shall ensure that the conditions of acceptance of a flight plan and any necessary changes to these conditions as notified by IFPS are made available to the operator or the pilot who has submitted the flight plan.
5.The operator shall ensure that the conditions of acceptance of a flight plan and any necessary changes thereto as notified by IFPS to the originator are incorporated into the planned flight operation and communicated to the pilot.
6.The operator shall ensure prior to operation of the flight that the content of the initial flight plan correctly reflects the operational intentions.
7.ATC units shall, during the pre-flight phase, make available through IFPS any necessary changes affecting the route or flight level key items of a flight plan that could affect the safe conduct of a flight, for flight plans and associated update messages previously received by them from IFPS.
No other changes to or cancellation of a flight plan shall be made by an ATC unit in the pre-flight phase without coordination with the operator.
8.Member States shall take the necessary measures to ensure that IFPS communicates any necessary pre-flight phase changes referred to in the first subparagraph of paragraph 7 to the originator of the flight plan.
9.When no flight plan has previously been received from IFPS by ATS units for a flight entering the airspace under their responsibility, the units concerned shall make available through IFPS at least the aircraft identification, aircraft type, point of entry to their area of responsibility, time and flight level at that point, route and destination aerodrome for such flights.
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F1 Substituted by Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 923/2012 of 26 September 2012 laying down the common rules of the air and operational provisions regarding services and procedures in air navigation and amending Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1035/2011 and Regulations (EC) No 1265/2007, (EC) No 1794/2006, (EC) No 730/2006, (EC) No 1033/2006 and (EU) No 255/2010 (Text with EEA relevance).
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