The Unmanned Aircraft (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020

Amendment of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/945 of 12 March 2019 on unmanned aircraft systems and on third-country operators of unmanned aircraft systems

6.  After Article 3 insert—

“Article 3A Designated Standards

1.   For the purposes of this Regulation, a “designated standard” is a technical standard—

(a) which is adopted by the British Standards Institution for repeated or continuous application; and

(b) which has been designated by the Secretary of State by publishing its reference number in a manner the Secretary of State considers appropriate.

2.   In this Article, a “technical standard” means a document that prescribes technical requirements to be fulfilled by a product, process, service or system and which lays down one or more of the following—

(a) the characteristics required including—

(i) levels of quality, performance, interoperability, environmental protection, health, safety or dimensions, and

(ii) requirements applicable as regards the name under which a product is sold, terminology, symbols, testing and test methods, packaging, marking or labelling and conformity assessment procedures;

(b) production methods and processes where these have an effect on the characteristics of a product.

3.   When considering whether the manner of publication of a technical standard under paragraph 1(b) is appropriate, the Secretary of State must have regard to whether that manner will draw sufficient attention to the standard to all persons who may have an interest in it.

4.   The Secretary of State may remove the reference number of a technical standard from publication and where such a reference is removed, the technical standard is no longer a designated standard.

5.   Harmonised standards, as defined in Article 3(20) of the EU Regulation, the references of which have been published in the Official Journal of the European Union, have effect as designated standards until the Secretary of State designates standards under this Regulation.”.