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European Civil Aviation Handbook: Part I. Regulations and Directives

Title 1. Air transport and market issue
- Subtitle 1. Internal Market
  - Licensing of air carriers [Regulation (EC) No 1008/2008 ]
  - Access for Community air carriers to intra-Community routes [Regulation (EC) No 1008/2008]
  - Fares and rates for air services [Regulation (EC) No 1008/2008 ]
  - Insurance requirements for air carriers and aircraft operators [Regulation (EC) No 785/2004]
  - Code of conduct for computerized reservation systems [Regulation (EC) No 80/2009]
  - Statistical returns [Regulation (EC) No 437/2003]
  - Implementing rules of statistical returns regulation [Commission Regulation (EC) No 1358/2003]
- Subtitle 2. Relationship with third countries
  - Air services agreements [Regulation (EC) No 847/2004]
  - Protection against subsidisation [Regulation (EC) No 868/2004]

Title 2. Passenger rights
- Air carrier liability [Regulation (EC) No 889/2002]
- Denied boarding cancellation or long delay of flight [Regulation (EC) No 261/2004]
- Right of disabled persons [Regulation (EC) No 1107/2006]

Title 3. Safety
- Harmonisation [Regulation (EC) No 216/2008]
- Investigation of civil aviation accidents and incidents [Council Directive 94/56/EC]
- Common rules - EASA establishment [Regulation (EC) No 216/2008]
- Occurrence reporting in civil aviation [Directive 2003/42/EC]
- Rules for the airworthiness [Commission Regulation (EC) No 1702/2003]
- Continuing airworthiness [Commission Regulation (EC) No 2042/2003]
- Safety of third country aircraft using Community airport [Regulation (EC) No 216/2008]
- Board of appeal of the EASA [Regulation (EC) No 216/2008]
- Community list of air carrier subject to an operating ban [Regulation (EC) No 2111/2005]
- Implementing rules for the banned air carrier list [Commission Regulation (EC) No 473/2006]
- Fees and charges levied by the EASA [Commission Regulation (EC) No 593/2007]
- EASA working methods fo standardisation [Commission Regulation (EC) No 736/2006]
- Collection and exchange of information on the safety of aircraft [Commission Regulation (EC) No 768/2006]
- Common rules - EASA establishment [Regulation (EC) No 216/2008]
- List of banned air carrier [Commission Regulation (EC) No 1043/2007]

Title 4. Security
- Common basic standards on aviation security [Commission Regulation (EC) No 820/2008]
- National civil aviation security quality control programmes [Commission Regulation (EC) No 1217/2003]
- Security restricted areas at airports [Commission Regulation (EC) No 1138/2004]
- Procedures for conducting inspections in the civil aviation security [Commission Regulation (EC) No 1486/2003]
- Civil aviation security [Regulation (EC) No 300/2008]

Title 5. Environmental protection
- Subtitle 1. Noise emission
  - Limitation of noise [Council Directive 89/629/EEC]
  - Operation of aeroplanes covered by Part II, Chap.3 Vol.1 of Annex 16 [Directive 2006/93/EC]
  - Introduction of noise-related restrictions [Directive 2002/30/EC]
  - Management of environmental noise [Directive 2002/49/EC]
- Subtitle 2. Gas emission

Title 6. Airport
- Subtitle 1. Slots
  - Allocation of slots [Council Regulation (EEC) No 95/93]
- Subtitle 2. Ground handling
  - Access to ground handling market [Council Directive 96/67/EC]

Title 7. Air traffic management
- Framework for the creation of the Single European Sky (SES) [Regulation (EC) No 549/2004]
- Provision of air navigation services in the SES [Regulation (EC) No 550/2004]
- Organisation and use of the airspace in the SES [Regulation (EC) No 551/2004]
- Interoperability of the European ATM network [Regulation (EC) No 552/2004]
- Requirements for the provision air navigation services [Commission Regulation (EC) No 2096/2005]
- Rules for the flexible use of airspace [Commission Regulation (EC) No 2150/2005]
- Air traffic controller licence [Directive 2006/23/EC]
- Airspace classification and access of flights [Commission Regulation (EC) No 730/2006]
- Automatic systems for the exchange of flight data [Commission Regulation (EC) No 1032/2006]
- Procedures for flight plans in the preflight phase for the SES [Commission Regulation (EC) No 1033/2006]
- Common charging scheme for air navigation services [Commission Regulation (EC) No 1794/2006]
- Establishment of a joint undertaking to develop SESAR [Council Regulation (EC) No 219/2007]
- Requirement for the application of a flight message transfer protocol [Commission Regulation (EC) No 633/2007]
- Safety oversight in air traffic management [Commission Regulation (EC) No 1315/2007]

Title 8. Personnel and social issues
- Mutual acceptance of personnel licences [Regulation (EC) No 216/2008]

Title 9. Competition rules
- Subtitle 1. Antitrust practices law
  - Implementation of the rules on competition [Council Regulation (EC) No 1/2003]
  - Application of Art. 85-3 in the air transport sector [Council Regulation (EC) No 487/2009]
- Subtitle 2. Economic concentration law
  - Control of concentration [Commission Regulation (EC) No 802/2004]
- Subtitle 3. State aids
  - Transparency of financial relations [Commission Directive 2006/111/EC]
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