Article 2Scope

1.

This Regulation shall apply to the surveillance chain constituted of:

(a)

airborne constituents of surveillance systems and their associated procedures;

(b)

ground-based surveillance systems, their constituents and associated procedures;

(c)

systems and procedures for air traffic services, in particular flight data processing systems, surveillance data processing systems and human machine interface systems;

(d)

ground-to-ground and air-to-ground communication systems, their constituents and associated procedures used for the distribution of surveillance data.

2.

This Regulation shall apply to all flights operating as general air traffic in accordance with instrument flight rules within the airspace defined in Article 1(3) of Regulation (EC) No 551/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council3.