Alcohol limits to participate as crew member in non-commercial operations

SERA.2020 Problematic use of psychoactive substances

Regulation (EU) No 923/2012

No person whose function is critical to the safety of aviation (safety-sensitive personnel) shall undertake that function while under the influence of any psychoactive substance, by reason of which human performance is impaired. No such person shall engage in any kind of problematic use of substances.

Further:
NCO.GEN.105 Pilot-in-command responsibilities and authority

Regulation (EU) 2018/1975

(a) The pilot-in-command shall be responsible for:
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5) not commencing a flight if he/she is incapacitated from performing duties by any cause such as injury, sickness, fatigue or the effects of any psychoactive substance;

Be aware, EU-OPS was only an interim regulatory solution in the transition from JAR-OPS.
EASA Part-OPS replaced it ((EC) 965/2012) in October 2012.

Easy Access Rules for Air Operations is your friend!

https://www.easa.europa.eu/document-library/easy-access-rules/easy-acce…

Part-NCO is what you need for PPL ops.

Hope this helps...

While in PART-NCC there is a GM that states that no one shall act as a crew member having ingested alcohol in the last 8 hours or with alcohol level above 0.2 per thousand

However, in PART-NCO there is no such thing. Does this mean that the 8 hours without alcohol before starting flight does not apply to non-commercial operations with simple aircrafts ?

Alejandro,

if you look at the accident statistics, only less than 1% of aviation accidents are alcohol related. There are many ways to interpret that number one is, that flying without alcohol is unsafe.

Just joking....

Part NCO is objective based: "not commencing a flight if he/she is incapacitated from performing duties by any cause such as injury, sickness, fatigue or the effects of any psychoactive substance". Before flying, one might also have to drive to the airfield ... The 1 % says nothing about the probability of having an accident in flight while being intoxicated ... Another way to look at this figure is to conclude that these 1 % accidents might have been avoided without alcohol. "Too dumb to die" ...