CHAPTER IISUBSTANTIVE REQUIREMENTS
Article 4Basic principles and applicability
1
Aircraft, including any installed product, part and appliance, which are:
a
designed or manufactured by an organisation for which the Agency or a Member State ensures safety oversight; or
b
registered in a Member State, unless their regulatory safety oversight has been delegated to a third country and they are not used by a Community operator; or
c
registered in a third country and used by an operator for which any Member State ensures oversight of operations or used into, within or out of the Community by an operator established or residing in the Community; or
d
registered in a third country, or registered in a Member State which has delegated their regulatory safety oversight to a third country, and used by a third-country operator into, within or out of the Community
shall comply with this Regulation.
2
Personnel involved in the operations of aircraft referred to in paragraph 1(b), (c) or (d) shall comply with this Regulation.
3
Operations of aircraft referred to in paragraph 1(b), (c) or (d) shall comply with this Regulation.
4
Paragraph 1 shall not apply to aircraft referred to in Annex II.
5
Paragraphs 2 and 3 shall not apply to aircraft referred to in Annex II, with the exception of aircraft referred to in points (a)(ii), (d) and (h) thereof when used for commercial air transportation.
6
This Regulation shall not affect the rights of third countries as specified in international conventions, in particular the Chicago Convention.