Regulation (EU) No 376/2014 of the European Parliament and of the CouncilShow full title

Article 2 Definitions

For the purposes of this Regulation the following definitions apply:

(1)

‘reporter’ means a natural person who reports an occurrence or other safety-related information pursuant to this Regulation;

(2)

‘aircraft’ means any machine that can derive support in the atmosphere from the reactions of the air other than the reactions of the air against the earth's surface;

(3)

‘incident’ means an incident within the meaning of Regulation (EU) No 996/2010;

(4)

‘serious incident’ means a serious incident within the meaning of Regulation (EU) No 996/2010;

(5)

‘accident’ means an accident within the meaning of Regulation (EU) No 996/2010;

(6)

‘disidentified information’ means information arising from occurrence reports from which all personal data such as names or addresses of natural persons have been removed;

(7)

‘occurrence’ means any safety-related event which endangers or which, if not corrected or addressed, could endanger an aircraft, its occupants or any other person and includes in particular an accident or serious incident;

(8)

‘organisation’ means any organisation providing aviation products and/or which employs, contracts or uses the services of persons required to report occurrences in accordance with Article 4(6);

(9)

‘anonymisation’ means the removal from occurrence reports of all personal details relating to the reporter and to the persons mentioned in occurrence reports and any details, including the name of the organisation(s) involved in the occurrence, which may reveal the identity of the reporter or of a third party or lead to that information being inferred from the occurrence report;

(10)

‘hazard’ means a situation or an object with the potential to cause death or injury to a person, damage to equipment or a structure, loss of material, or a reduction of ability to perform a prescribed function;

(11)

‘safety investigation authority’ means the permanent national civil aviation safety investigation authority conducting or supervising safety investigations as referred to in Article 4 of Regulation (EU) No 996/2010;

(12)

‘just culture’ means a culture in which front-line operators or other persons are not punished for actions, omissions or decisions taken by them that are commensurate with their experience and training, but in which gross negligence, wilful violations and destructive acts are not tolerated;

(13)

‘point of contact’ means:

(a)

where a request for information is made by an interested party established in a Member State, the competent authority designated by each Member State in accordance with Article 6(3);

(b)

where a request for information is made by an interested party established outside the Union, the Commission;

(14)

‘interested party’ means any natural or legal person or any official body, whether or not having its own legal personality, that is in a position to participate in the improvement of aviation safety by having access to information on occurrences exchanged by the Member States and which falls within one of the categories of interested parties set out in Annex II;

(15)

‘State Safety Programme’ means an integrated set of legal acts and activities aimed at managing civil aviation safety in a Member State;

(16)

‘European Aviation Safety Plan’ means safety issues assessment and the related action plan at European level;

(17)

‘European Aviation Safety Programme’ means the integrated set of regulations at Union level, together with the activities and processes used to jointly manage the safety of civil aviation at European level;

(18)

‘safety management system’ means a systematic approach to managing aviation safety including the necessary organisational structures, accountabilities, policies and procedures, and includes any management system that, independently or integrated with other management systems of the organisation, addresses the management of safety.