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Regulation (EU) No 965/2012 is amended as follows:
in Article 2, point (7) is replaced by the following:
“Specialised operation” means any operation, other than commercial air transport operation, where the aircraft is used for specialised activities such as agriculture, construction, photography, surveying, observation and patrol, aerial advertisement, maintenance check flights;’;
in Article 6(3), point (b) is replaced by the following:
the following Article 9aa is inserted:
A pilot having acted, before 20 August 2019, as a pilot-in-command on a maintenance check flight that in accordance with the definition in point SPO.SPEC.MCF.100 in Annex VIII is categorised as a Level A maintenance check flight, shall be given credit for the purpose of complying with point SPO.SPEC.MCF.115(a)(1) of that Annex. In that case, the operator shall ensure that the pilot-in-command receives a briefing on any differences identified between the operating practices established before 20 August 2019 and the obligations provided in Sections 5 and 6 of Subpart E of Annex VII to this Regulation including those derived from the related procedures established by the operator.’;
Annexes I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII and VIII are amended in accordance with Annex I to this Regulation.
Annex I (Part-M) and Annex Vb (Part-ML) to Regulation (EU) No 1321/2014 are amended in accordance with Annex II to this Regulation.
This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 24 July 2019.
For the Commission
The President
Jean-Claude Juncker