# Council Directive of 4 December 1989 on the limitation of noise emission from civil subsonic jet aeroplanes (89/629/EEC), Article 2

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

1. 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.
2. Paragraph 1 shall not apply to aeroplanes entered on Member States' national registers on 1 November 1990.
3. The territory mentioned in paragraph 1 shall not include the overseas departments referred to in Article 227 (2) of the Treaty.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/1989/629/article/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1989-629/article-2
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