EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the Order)
1. This Order revokes and replaces the Air Navigation (Environmental Standards) Order 2002.
2. This Order sets out the environmental standards (noise and emissions) with which specified categories of United Kingdom registered aircraft which are not subject to the Basic EASA Regulation (O.J. No. L 240 of 7.09.2002, p.1) must comply. The Basic EASA Regulation establishes the European Aviation Safety Agency, sets out essential requirements for environmental protection and provides for the making of implementing rules in support of those essential requirements. The aircraft which are not subject to the Basic EASA Regulation are State aircraft and those coming within one of the categories listed in Annex II to that Regulation. United Kingdom registered aircraft which are subject to the Basic EASA Regulation must comply instead with the environmental standards provided for in that Regulation and in Commission Regulation (EC) No 1702/2003 (O.J. No. L 243, 27.9.2003, p.6).
3. Apart from minor drafting changes no changes are made to the requirements for those aircraft which are subject to this Order.
4. Copies of Annex 16 to the Convention on International Civil Aviation (Volume 1 - Aircraft Noise, 4th edition and Volume II - Aircraft Engine Emissions, 2nd edition, both published by the International Civil Aviation Organisation) may be obtained from—
(a)Airplan Flight Equipment Ltd, 1A Ringway Trading Estate, Shadowmoss Road, Manchester M22 5LH; or
(b)Labeline (Air, Sea and Road), Holly House, 14 Tenby Road, Frimley, Surrey GU16 5UT.
5. A Regulatory Impact Assessment has not been produced for this instrument as it has no new impacts on business, charities or voluntary bodies.