Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/945

means accreditation as defined in paragraph 10 of Article 2 of Regulation (EC) No 765/2008;

means gatherings where persons are unable to move away due to the density of the people present;

means any natural or legal person established within the Union who has received a written mandate from a manufacturer to act on his behalf in relation to specified tasks;

means the process demonstrating whether the specified requirements relating to a product have been fulfilled;

means a body that performs conformity assessment activities including calibration, testing, certification and inspection;

(‘CMU’) means the equipment to control and monitor unmanned aircraft remotely, as defined in Article 3 point (32) of Regulation (EU) 2018/1139;

means a system that ensures the local broadcast of information about a UA in operation, including the marking of the UA, so that this information can be obtained without physical access to the UA;

means any natural or legal person in the supply chain, other than the manufacturer or the importer, who makes a product available on the market;

means the manufacturer, the authorised representative of the manufacturer, the importer, and the distributor of the UAS;

means any instrument, equipment, mechanism, apparatus, appurtenance, software or accessory that is necessary for the safe operation of a UA other than a part and which is not carried on board that UA;

means a mode of operation of a UAS where the unmanned aircraft constantly follows the remote pilot within a predetermined radius;

means a function that, based on the data provided by Member States, detects a potential breach of airspace limitations and alerts the remote pilots so that they can take effective immediate and action to prevent that breach;

means a sound power level determined in accordance with the requirements laid down in Part 13 of the Annex which includes the uncertainties due to production variation and measurement procedures and where the manufacturer, or his authorised representative established in the Community, confirms that according to the technical instruments applied and referred to in the technical documentation it is not exceeded;

means a harmonised standard as defined in point (c) of Article 2(1) of Regulation (EU) No 1025/2012;

means staying in the same geographical position in the air;

means any natural or legal person established within the Union who places a product from a third country on the Union market;

means any supply of a product for distribution, consumption or use in the Union market in the course of a commercial activity, whether in exchange of payment or free of charge;

means any natural or legal person who manufactures a product or has a product designed or manufactured, and markets that product under their name or trademark;

means an authority of a Member State responsible for carrying out market surveillance on its territory;

(‘MTOM’) means the maximum UA mass, including payload and fuel, as defined by the manufacturer or the builder, at which the UA can be operated;

means a sound power level as determined from measurements as laid down in Part 13 of the Annex;

means the hours between the end of evening civil twilight and the beginning of morning civil twilight as defined in Implementing Regulation (EU) No 923/2012.

means any instrument, mechanism, equipment, part, apparatus, appurtenance, or accessory, including communications equipment, that is installed in or attached to the aircraft, and is not used or intended to be used in operating or controlling an aircraft in flight, and is not part of an airframe, engine, or propeller;

means the first making available of a product on the Union market;

means a UAS assembled or manufactured for the builder's own use, not including UAS assembled from a set of parts placed on the market by the manufacturer as a single ready-to-assemble kit;

means any measure aimed at achieving the return of a product that has already been made available to the end-user;

means a natural person responsible for safely conducting the flight of a UA by operating its flight controls, either manually or, when the UA flies automatically, by monitoring its course and remaining able to intervene and change its course at any time;

means airspace above the territory to which the Treaties apply, as well as any other airspace where Member States apply Regulation (EC) No 551/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council in accordance with paragraph 3 of Article 1 of that Regulation;

means the A-weighted sound power in dB in relation to 1 pW as defined in EN ISO 3744:2010;

means a document that establishes technical requirements to be fulfilled by a product, process or service;

means any Union legislation harmonising the conditions for placing products on the market;

(‘UA’) means any aircraft operating or designed to operate autonomously or to be piloted remotely without a pilot on board;

(‘UAS’) means an unmanned aircraft, as defined in Article 3 point (30) of Regulation (EU) 2018/1139, and its control and monitoring unit;

(‘UAS operator’) means any legal or natural person operating or intending to operate one or more UAS;

means any measure aimed at preventing a product in the supply chain from being made available on the market;