Paragraph 1

The CAA is authorised (as a United Kingdom notified body for radiocommunication transmission apparatus and as an enforcement authority for wireless telegraphy apparatus) in relation to aeronautical apparatus of the following descriptions—

• — aeronautical mobile—

  • — associated ground communications;

  • — EPIRB/ELT (Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon/Emergency Locating Transmitter);

  • — ground and airborne equipment for primary and secondary radar for—

    • — the CAA;

    • — the Ministry of Defence; and

    • — private airfield operators;

  • — general communications—

    • — ground/air;

    • — ground/ground; and

    • — air/air; and

  • — aeronautical earth station equipment;

• — radio navigation—

  • — radio altimeters;

  • — ILS (Instrument Landing System); and

  • — aeronautical radiobeacons;

• — satellite aeronautical mobile radio—

  • — EPIRB/ELT; and

  • — voice, medium speed data and low speed data in each case via INMARSAT (satellite operated by the International Maritime Satellite Organisation);

• — aeronautical radionavigation—

  • — ILS/MLS (Microwave Landing System);

  • — ATC (Air Traffic Control) marker beacons for aircraft;

  • — radionavigation satellite equipment on board aircraft;

  • — hyperbolic navigation aids;

  • — NDB;

  • — VOR (VHF Omnidirectional Range);

  • — TACAN/DME (Tactical Air Navigation/Distance Measuring Equipment); and

  • — satellite navigation systems—

    • — ADS (Automatic Dependent Surveillance); and

    • — CIS (Co-operative Independent Surveillance); and

• — radiolocation and radiodetermination—

  — radar—

  • — primary;

  • — OTHR (Over the Horizon Radar);

  • — secondary;

  • — ground; and

  • — airborne; and

any other apparatus not subject to Directive 1999/5/EC on Radio Equipment and Telecommunications Terminal Equipment by virtue of Annex 1, paragraphs 5 and 6 of that Directive.