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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2006-1032/article-2",
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  "legislation": "eur/2006/1032",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Regulation (EC) No 1032/2006 of 6 July 2006 laying down requirements for automatic systems for the exchange of flight data for the purpose of notification, coordination and transfer of flights between air traffic control units (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2006-1032",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Definitions",
  "text": "1. For the purpose of this Regulation the definitions set out in Regulation (EC) No 549/2004 shall apply.\n2. In addition to the definitions referred to in paragraph 1 the following definitions shall apply:\n1.. ‘notification’ means the transmission by the transferring unit of data to update the system at the receiving unit in preparation for the coordination;\n2.. ‘coordination’ means the coordination between air traffic control units of the planned passage of flights across the common boundary, in order to ensure flight safety;\n3.. ‘air traffic control unit’ (hereinafter ATC unit) means variously area control centre, approach control unit or aerodrome control tower;\n4.. ‘civil-military coordination’ means the coordination between civil and military parties authorised to make decisions and agree a course of action;\n5.. ‘flight data processing system’ means the part of an air traffic services system which receives, automatically processes and distributes to air traffic control units working positions, flight plan data and associated messages;\n6.. ‘air traffic services unit’ (hereinafter ATS unit) means a unit, civil or military, responsible for providing air traffic services;\n7.. ‘controlling military unit’ means any fixed or mobile military unit handling military air traffic and/or pursuing other activities that due to their specific nature may require airspace reservation or restriction;\n8.. ‘transferring unit’ means the air traffic control unit in the process of transferring the responsibility for providing an air traffic control service to an aircraft to the next ATC unit along the route of flight;\n9.. ‘receiving unit’ means the air traffic control unit who receives data;\n10.. ‘boundary’ means a lateral or vertical plane delineating the airspace in which an ATC unit provides air traffic services;\n11.. ‘area control centre’ (hereinafter ACC) means a unit established to provide air traffic control service to controlled flights in control areas under its responsibility;\n12.. ‘working position’ means the furniture and technical equipment at which a member of the air traffic services staff undertakes task associated with their job;\n13.. ‘flight plan’ means specified information provided to air traffic services units, relative to an intended flight or portion of a flight of an aircraft;\n14.. ‘warning’ means a message displayed at a working position when the automated coordination process has failed;\n15.. ‘estimate data’ means the coordination point, the estimated time of an aircraft and the expected flight level of the aircraft at the coordination point;\n16.. ‘secondary surveillance radar’ (hereinafter SSR) means a surveillance radar system which uses transmitters or receivers and transponders;\n17.. ‘letter of agreement’ means an agreement between two adjacent ATC units that specifies how their respective ATC responsibilities are to be coordinated;\n18.. ‘transfer of control point’ means a point on the flight path of an aircraft, at which the responsibility for providing air traffic services to the aircraft is transferred from one ATC unit to the next;\n19.. ‘coordination data’ mean data of interest to operational staff in connection with the process of notification, coordination and transfer of flights and with the process of civil-military coordination;\n20.. ‘transfer flight level’ means the flight level agreed during the coordination if in level flight, or the cleared flight level to which the flight is proceeding if climbing or descending at the coordination point;\n21.. ‘accepting unit’ means the air traffic control unit next to take control of an aircraft;\n22.. ‘coordination point’ (hereinafter COP) means a point on or adjacent to the boundary used by the ATC units and referred to in coordination processes;\n23.. ‘notified unit’ means the ATC unit that has received the notification information;\n24.. ‘correlation’ means the process of linking the flight plan data and the radar track of the same flight;\n25.. ‘release’ means the authorising by the controller transferring an aircraft of a controller at the accepting unit to issue control instructions to the aircraft prior to its passing the transfer of control point;\n26.. ‘availability’ means the degree to which a system or component is operational and accessible when required for use;\n27.. ‘reliability’ means the probability that the ground installation operates within the specified tolerances.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2006/1032/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:53:37.174367+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}