S.I. No. 855/2004 - Irish Aviation Authority (Air Traffic Service Systems) Order, 2004

1. Communications systems used to communicate with aircraft, vehicles or personnel operating on an aerodrome including voice communications control systems and VHF/UHF/radiotelephony transmitters, receivers and antennae.

2. Systems associated with broadcast services such as Automated Terminal Information Services and VOLMET including VHF transmitters and antennae and the message preparation or generation equipment.

3. Radar transmitter and receiver equipment including surveillance, data-processing and display systems and equipment and related or dependent elements such as maintenance arrangements or runway incursion detection systems.

4. Direction Finding and associated processing and display equipment.

5. Equipment and associated monitoring and control systems for the following

Instrument Landing Systems

Instrumented Runway Visual Range

Microwave Landing Systems

Non-Directional Beacons

VHF Omni-directional Range Beacons

Distance Measuring Equipment

6. Data processing and communications equipment used for air traffic management messaging including OnLine Data Interchange, Aeronautical Fixed Telecommunications Network and flight data processing systems including flight strip printers. Approval will be limited to gaining assurance of data integrity aspects only.

7. Alarm and safety alerting systems and devices where not included in the above systems and equipment.

8. Information display systems such as general air traffic information displays and closed circuit television systems. Approval will be limited to gaining assurance of safety related data integrity only.

9. Aerodrome Ground Lighting control and monitoring systems unless these are subject to approval under an aerodrome licence.

10. Any other specific item or class of equipment or system deemed by the Authority in a particular instance to be safety related and used to support the provision of an air traffic service system.

11. Runway Visual Range Measuring equipment unless this is subject to approval under an aerodrome licence.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

(This note is not part of the Instrument and does not purport to be a legal interpretation.)

This Order provides for the regulation by the Authority of air traffic service systems and equipment used to provide communications, navigational aid and surveillance services to aircraft so as to ensure compliance with international standards and recommended practices. The Order does not apply to such systems and equipment under the control of the Minister for Defence. This Order revokes the Irish Aviation Authority (Aeronautical Radio and Radar Equipment) Order, 2001 (

S.I. No. 565 of 2001

).

The Irish Aviation Authority, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by

sections 5

,

14

,

58

,

59

and

60

of the

Irish Aviation Authority Act, 1993

(No. 29 of 1993), as amended by the

Air Navigation and Transport (Amendment) Act, 1998

(No. 24 of 1998), the

Aviation Regulation Act, 2001

(No. 1 of 2001) and the State Airports Act, 2004 (No. 32 of 2004) hereby orders as follows

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