Regulation (EC) No 300/2008 of the European Parliament and of the CouncilShow full title

Article 3 U.K. Definitions

For the purposes of this Regulation:

1.

‘civil aviation’ means any air operation carried out by civil aircraft, excluding operations carried out by State aircraft referred to in Article 3 of the Chicago Convention on International Civil Aviation;

2.

‘aviation security’ means the combination of measures and human and material resources intended to safeguard civil aviation against acts of unlawful interference that jeopardise the security of civil aviation;

3.

‘operator’ means a person, organisation or enterprise engaged, or offering to engage, in an air transport operation;

4.

‘air carrier’ means an air transport undertaking holding a valid operating licence or equivalent;

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6.

‘entity’ means a person, organisation or enterprise, other than an operator;

7.

‘prohibited articles’ means weapons, explosives or other dangerous devices, articles or substances that may be used to commit an act of unlawful interference that jeopardises the security of civil aviation;

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‘screening’ means the application of technical or other means which are intended to identify and/or detect prohibited articles;

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‘security control’ means the application of means by which the introduction of prohibited articles may be prevented;

10.

‘access control’ means the application of means by which the entry of unauthorised persons or unauthorised vehicles, or both, may be prevented;

11.

‘airside’ means the movement area of an airport, adjacent terrain and buildings or portions thereof, access to which is restricted;

12.

‘landside’ means those parts of an airport, adjacent terrain and buildings or portions thereof that are not airside;

13.

‘security restricted area’ means that area of airside where, in addition to access being restricted, other aviation security standards are applied;

14.

‘demarcated area’ means an area that is separated by means of access control either from security restricted areas, or, if the demarcated area itself is a security restricted area, from other security restricted areas of an airport;

15.

‘background check’ means a recorded check of a person’s identity, including any criminal history, as part of the assessment of an individual’s suitability for unescorted access to security restricted areas;

16.

‘transfer passengers, baggage, cargo or mail’ means passengers, baggage, cargo or mail departing on an aircraft other than that on which they arrived;

17.

‘transit passengers, baggage, cargo or mail’ means passengers, baggage, cargo or mail departing on the same aircraft as that on which they arrived;

18.

‘potentially disruptive passenger’ means a passenger who is either a deportee, a person deemed to be inadmissible for immigration reasons or a person in lawful custody;

19.

‘cabin baggage’ means baggage intended for carriage in the cabin of an aircraft;

20.

‘hold baggage’ means baggage intended for carriage in the hold of an aircraft;

21.

‘accompanied hold baggage’ means baggage, carried in the hold of an aircraft, which has been checked in for a flight by a passenger travelling on that same flight;

22.

‘air carrier mail’ means mail whose origin and destination are both an air carrier;

23.

‘air carrier materials’ means materials either whose origin and destination are both an air carrier or that are used by an air carrier;

24.

‘mail’ means dispatches of correspondence and other items, other than air carrier mail, tendered by and intended for delivery to postal services in accordance with the rules of the Universal Postal Union;

25.

‘cargo’ means any property intended for carriage on an aircraft, other than baggage, mail, air carrier mail, air carrier materials and in-flight supplies;

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‘regulated agent’ means an air carrier, agent, freight forwarder or any other entity who ensures security controls in respect of cargo or mail;

27.

‘known consignor’ means a consignor who originates cargo or mail for its own account and whose procedures meet F2 ... security rules and standards sufficient to allow carriage of cargo or mail on any aircraft;

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‘aircraft security check’ means an inspection of those parts of the interior of the aircraft to which passengers may have had access, together with an inspection of the hold of the aircraft in order to detect prohibited articles and unlawful interferences with the aircraft;

30.

‘aircraft security search’ means an inspection of the interior and accessible exterior of the aircraft in order to detect prohibited articles and unlawful interferences that jeopardise the security of the aircraft;

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‘in-flight security officer’ means a person who is employed by a state to travel on an aircraft of an air carrier licensed by it with the purpose of protecting that aircraft and its occupants against acts of unlawful interference that jeopardise the security of the flight.

Textual Amendments

F1 Art. 3(5) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Aviation Security (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/547), regs. 1, 7(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F2 Word in Art. 3(27) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Aviation Security (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/547), regs. 1, 7(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F3 Art. 3(28) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Aviation Security (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/547), regs. 1, 7(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)