{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2014-598/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2014-598/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2014/598",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation (EU) No 598/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 April 2014 on the establishment of rules and procedures with regard to the introduction of noise-related operating restrictions at United Kingdom airports within a Balanced Approach and repealing Directive 2002/30/EC",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2014-598",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Competent authorities",
  "text": "1. Where an airport is located in Great Britain, the Secretary of State, or in Northern Ireland, the Northern Ireland Department for Infrastructure, shall designate one or more competent authorities responsible for the process to be followed when adopting operating restrictions.\n2. The competent authorities shall be independent of any organisation which could be affected by noise-related action. That independence may be achieved through a functional separation.\n3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Art. 3(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Aviation Noise (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/643), regs. 1(2), 5(5)(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Art. 3(3) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Aviation Noise (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/643), regs. 1(2), 5(5)(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2014/598/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:47:36.398829+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."
}