AIS.OR.500 General – Aeronautical information products updates

Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/469

An AIS provider shall ensure that aeronautical data and aeronautical information are amended or reissued to keep them up to date.

AIS.OR.505 Aeronautical information regulation and control (AIRAC)

Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/469

An AIS provider shall ensure that information concerning the circumstances listed in point AIS.TR.505(a) is distributed under the AIRAC system.

An AIS provider shall ensure that:

(1) the information notified under the AIRAC system is not changed further for at least another 28 days after the AIRAC effective date unless the circumstance notified is of a temporary nature and would not persist for the full period;

(2) the information provided under the AIRAC system is distributed/made available so as to reach recipients at least 28 days in advance of the AIRAC effective date; and

(3) implementation dates other than the AIRAC effective dates are not used for pre-planned operationally significant changes requiring cartographic work and/or for updating of navigation databases.

AIRAC SYSTEM

Further explanations with regard to the application of the AIRAC system can be found in the EUROCONTROL ‘Procedure for the Assessment of Information for Notification by AIRAC’ (SDP/8), (edition 2.0, dated 17 July 2009). Additional details can be found in SDP/9, 10 and 13 for specific products.

DISTRIBUTION

AIRAC information, distributed as a physical medium, should be sent at least 42 days in advance of the AIRAC effective dates with the objective of reaching recipients at least 28 days in advance of the effective date.

AIS.OR.510 NOTAM

Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/469

An AIS provider shall:

(a) ensure that NOTAM are provided in accordance with point AIS.TR.510; and

(b) provide a ‘trigger NOTAM’, as laid down in point AIS.TR.510(f), when an AIP amendment or an AIP supplement is published in accordance with AIRAC procedures.

AIS.OR.515 Data set updates

Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/469

An AIS provider shall:

(a) amend or reissue data sets at such regular intervals as may be necessary to keep them up to date; and

(b) issue permanent changes and temporary changes of long duration – three months or longer – made available as digital data in the form of a complete data set and/or a subset that includes only the differences from the previously issued complete data set.

AMC1 AIS.OR.515 Data set updates

ED Decision 2020/008/R

GENERAL

(a) When made available as a completely re-issued data set, the differences from the previously issued complete data set should be indicated.

(b) When temporary changes of short duration are made available as digital data, they should use the same information model as the complete data set.