# The Air Navigation (Environmental Standards) Order 2001, Article 8: Fuel venting requirements


(1) This article shall apply to—
(a) every jet aircraft in respect of which a certificate of airworthiness was first issued on or after 18th February 1982; and
(b) every aircraft to which paragraph (1)(a) does not apply but which is powered by one or more than one turbojet engine or turbofan engine where the date of manufacture of any such engine was on or after 18th February 1982.
(2) Subject to article 12, an aircraft to which this article applies shall not land or take-off in the United Kingdom unless it individually or is of a type which has been certified in accordance with article 11 as complying with the requirements relating to fuel venting specified in paragraph (3) and it is fitted with the engines specified in the emissions certification issued under article 11.
(3) The requirements referred to in paragraph (2) are that the aircraft is individually or is of a type which, when fitted with the type of engine specified in the emissions certification designed and constructed to prevent the intentional discharge into the atmosphere of liquid fuel from the fuel nozzle manifolds resulting from the process of engine shutdown following normal flight or ground operations.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2001/0110390865/article/8 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/draft-air-navigation-environmental-standards-order-2001/article-8
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