Regulation (EC) No 216/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council (repealed)Show full title

Article 3 U.K. Definitions

For the purposes of this Regulation:

(a)

‘continuing oversight’ shall mean the tasks to be conducted to verify that the conditions under which a certificate has been granted continue to be fulfilled at any time during its period of validity, as well as the taking of any safeguard measure;

(b)

‘Chicago Convention’ shall mean the Convention on International Civil Aviation and its Annexes, signed in Chicago on 7 December 1944;

(c)

‘product’ shall mean an aircraft, engine or propeller;

(d)

‘parts and appliances’ shall mean any instrument, equipment, mechanism, part, apparatus, appurtenance or accessory, including communications equipment, that is used or intended to be used in operating or controlling an aircraft in flight and is installed in or attached to the aircraft. It shall include parts of an airframe, engine or propeller;

(e)

‘certification’ shall mean any form of recognition that a product, part or appliance, organisation or person complies with the applicable requirements including the provisions of this Regulation and its implementing rules, as well as the issuance of the relevant certificate attesting such compliance;

(f)

‘qualified entity’ shall mean a body which may be allocated a specific certification task by, and under the control and the responsibility of, the Agency or a national aviation authority;

(g)

‘certificate’ shall mean any approval, licence or other document issued as the result of certification;

(h)

‘operator’ shall mean any legal or natural person, operating or proposing to operate one or more aircraft;

(i)

‘commercial operation’ shall mean any operation of an aircraft, in return for remuneration or other valuable consideration, which is available to the public or, when not made available to the public, which is performed under a contract between an operator and a customer, where the latter has no control over the operator;

(j)

‘complex motor-powered aircraft’ shall mean:

(i)

an aeroplane:

• with a maximum certificated take-off mass exceeding 5 700 kg, or

• certificated for a maximum passenger seating configuration of more than nineteen, or

• certificated for operation with a minimum crew of at least two pilots, or

• equipped with (a) turbojet engine(s) or more than one turboprop engine, or

(ii)

a helicopter certificated:

• for a maximum take-off mass exceeding 3 175 kg, or

• for a maximum passenger seating configuration of more than nine, or

• for operation with a minimum crew of at least two pilots, or

(iii)

a tilt rotor aircraft;

(k)

‘flight simulation training device’ shall mean any type of device in which flight conditions are simulated on the ground; they include flight simulators, flight training devices, flight and navigation procedures trainers and basic instrument training devices;

(l)

‘rating’ shall mean a statement entered on a licence, setting forth privileges, special conditions or limitations pertaining thereto.