Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2025/22

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THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,Having regard to Regulation (EU) 2018/1139 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 4 July 2018 on common rules in the field of civil aviation and establishing a European Union Aviation Safety Agency, and amending Regulations (EC) No 2111/2005, (EC) No 1008/2008, (EU) No 996/2010, (EU) No 376/2014 and Directives 2014/30/EU and 2014/53/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council, and repealing Regulations (EC) No 552/2004 and (EC) No 216/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council and Council Regulation (EEC) No 3922/91^note, and in particular Article 39(1)(e) thereof,Whereas:

(1)Regulation (EU) 2018/1139 establishes the essential requirements for the safe provision of ground handling services and organisations providing them, as well as requirements for oversight by competent authorities of those organisations and the ground handling services provided at the Union aerodromes within the scope of that Regulation.

(2)In accordance with the essential requirements set out in Annex VII, point 4.2.1, to Regulation (EU) 2018/1139 and with Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2025/20^note, organisations responsible for the safe provision of ground handling services are to implement and maintain a management system to manage safety risks. Such safety risks may derive also from information security threats. The risks of this nature should be properly addressed by organisations providing GH services. To enable this, the scope of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/1645^note should be amended to include organisations providing ground handling service.

(3)Organisations subject to Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/1645 such as the ground handling organisations and the organisations providing apron management services operate under a declaration regime. This implies that their management system or any of its components do not need to be approved by their competent authorities. The same regime should allow these organisations to apply the information security provisions without being required to have their information security management manual or the process to manage changes approved by the competent authority. The requirements related to these elements should be amended to reflect this exemption for the declaring organisations.

(4)Organisations covered by this Regulation that are already subject to security requirements arising from Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/1998^note should also comply with the requirements of Annex I (Part IS.D.OR.230 ‘Information security external reporting scheme’) to Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/1645 as Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/1998 does not contain any provisions related to external reporting of information security incidents.

(5)The requirements laid down in this Regulation are based on Opinion No 01/2024^note, issued by the Agency in accordance with Article 75(2) points (b) and (c) and Article 76(1) of Regulation (EU) 2018/1139.

(6)In accordance with Article 128(4) of Regulation (EU) 2018/1139, the Commission consulted experts designated by each Member State in accordance with the principles laid down in the Interinstitutional Agreement of 13 April 2016 on Better Law-Making^note.

(7)In order to provide organisations with sufficient time to ensure compliance with the new rules and procedures introduced by this Regulation, this Regulation should apply from 6 years after the date of entry into force,

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