ED Decision 2021/005/R

Update of the Acceptable Means of Compliance and Guidance Material to Regulation (EU) No 965/2012 - Aeroplane performance, PBS, oxygen equipment, medical equipment, recorders, technical records, non-ETOPS operations, ground de-icing/anti-icing procedures

Update of the Acceptable Means of Compliance and Guidance Material to Regulation (EU) No 965/2012

Aeroplane performance, PBS, oxygen equipment, medical equipment, recorders, technical records, non-ETOPS operations, ground de-icing/anti-icing procedures

Following the adoption of Regulation (EU) 2019/1387, amending Regulation (EU) No 965/2012 (Air OPS Regulation), the objective of this Decision is to support the implementation of the requirements on:

  • power supply to cockpit voice recorders (CVRs) in order to improve the availability of recordings; 
  • in-flight recording for light aircraft;
  • commercial operation of certain categories of aeroplanes without an ETOPS approval; 
  • runway surface condition reporting and in-flight assessment of landing performance ;
  • reduced required landing distance for certain categories of commercially operated aeroplanes; 
  • operations in airspaces where performance-based communication and surveillance (PBCS) is implemented;
  • new technical standards on first-aid oxygen dispensing units, medical equipment, de-icing/anti-icing ground procedures; and
  • technical records.

This Decision amends as necessary the acceptable means of compliance and guidance material in relation to the above-listed topics.