Commission Regulation (EC) No 29/2009 of 16 January 2009 laying down requirements on data link services for the single European sky (Text with EEA relevance) (c. 29)

ANNEX II Definition of data link services referred to in Articles 3, 4, 5 and 7 and Annex IV

1. Definition of Data Link Communications Initiation Capability (DLIC)

The DLIC service shall enable the exchange of the necessary information for the establishment of data link communications between ground and aircraft data link systems.

The DLIC service shall be available to support:

• the unambiguous association of flight data from the aircraft with flight plan data used by an ATS unit,

• the exchange of the supported air–ground application type and version information,

• and the delivery of the addressing information of the entity hosting the application.

The exchanges between airborne and ground data link systems for the execution of DLIC service shall comply with:

• operating methods, time sequence diagrams and messages for the DLIC initiation and DLIC contact functions specified in Section 4.1 of the Eurocae document identified in point 11 of Annex III,

• safety requirements specified in Section 4.2.2 of the Eurocae document identified in point 11 of Annex III,

• performance requirements specified in Section 4.3.2 of the Eurocae document identified in point 11 of Annex III.