Article 2

Member States shall ensure that as from 1 November 1990 civil subsonic jet aeroplanes registered after that date in their territory, may not be operated in their territory or in the territory of another Member State unless granted a noise certificate to the standards at least equal to those specified in Part II, Chapter 3, Volume 1 of Annex 16 to the Convention on International Civil Aviation, 2nd edition 1988.

Paragraph 1 shall not apply to aeroplanes entered on Member States' national registers on 1 November 1990.

The territory mentioned in paragraph 1 shall not include the overseas departments referred to in Article 227 (2) of the Treaty.