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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2014-687/annex/division-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2014-687/annex/division-1.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2014/687",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 687/2014 of 20 June 2014 amending Regulation (EU) No 185/2010 as regards clarification, harmonisation and simplification of aviation security measures, equivalence of security standards and cargo and mail security measures (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2014-687",
  "path": "annex/division/1",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": "(1)",
  "heading": "Chapter 1 is amended as follows:",
  "text": "(a) the following point 1.0.5 is added:\n‘1.0.5.\nReferences to third countries in this chapter and where applicable in a separate Commission Decision include other countries and territories to which, in accordance with Article 355 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, Title VI of that Treaty does not apply.’;\n(b) point 1.3.1.7 is deleted;\n(c) the following point 1.6 is added:\n‘1.6.\nPROHIBITED ARTICLES\n1.6.1.\nPersons other than passengers shall not be permitted to carry into security restricted areas the articles listed in Attachment 1-A.\n1.6.2.\nAn exemption to point 1.6.1 may be granted on condition that the person is authorised to carry prohibited articles into security restricted areas in order to undertake tasks that are essential for the operation of airport facilities or of aircraft, or for performing in-flight duties.\n1.6.3.\nIn order to allow reconciliation of the person authorised to carry one or more articles as listed in Attachment 1-A with the article carried:\n(a) the person shall have an authorisation and shall carry it. The authorisation shall either be indicated on the identification card that grants access to security restricted areas or on a separate declaration in writing. The authorisation shall indicate the article(s) that may be carried, either as a category or as a specific article. If the authorisation is indicated on the identification card, then it shall be recognisable on a need-to-know basis; or\n(b) a system shall be in place at the security checkpoint indicating which persons are authorised to carry which article(s), either as a category or as a specific article.\nReconciliation shall be performed before the person is allowed to carry the article(s) concerned into security restricted areas or on board an aircraft, or upon being challenged by persons performing surveillance or patrols under point 1.5.1 (c).\n1.6.4.\nArticles as listed in Attachment 1-A may be stored in security restricted areas provided they are kept in secure conditions. Articles as listed in points (c), (d) and (e) of Attachment 4-C may be stored in security restricted areas provided they are not accessible to passengers.’;\n(d) the following Attachment 1-A is added:\n‘ATTACHMENT 1-A\nPERSONS OTHER THAN PASSENGERS\nLIST OF PROHIBITED ARTICLES\n(a) guns, firearms and other devices that discharge projectiles — devices capable, or appearing capable, of being used to cause serious injury by discharging a projectile, including:\nfirearms of all types, such as pistols, revolvers, rifles, shotguns,\ntoy guns, replicas and imitation firearms capable of being mistaken for real weapons,\ncomponent parts of firearms, excluding telescopic sights,\ncompressed air and CO2 guns, such as pistols, pellet guns, rifles and ball bearing guns,\nsignal flare pistols and starter pistols,\nbows, cross bows and arrows,\nharpoon guns and spear guns,\nslingshots and catapults;\n(b) stunning devices — devices designed specifically to stun or immobilise, including:\ndevices for shocking, such as stun guns, tasers and stun batons,\nanimal stunners and animal killers,\ndisabling and incapacitating chemicals, gases and sprays, such as mace, pepper sprays, capsicum sprays, tear gas, acid sprays and animal repellent sprays;\n(c) explosives and incendiary substances and devices — explosives and incendiary substances and devices capable, or appearing capable, of being used to cause serious injury or to pose a threat to the safety of aircraft, including:\nammunition,\nblasting caps,\ndetonators and fuses,\nreplica or imitation explosive devices,\nmines, grenades and other explosive military stores,\nfireworks and other pyrotechnics,\nsmoke-generating canisters and smoke-generating cartridges,\ndynamite, gunpowder and plastic explosives;\n(d) any other article capable of being used to cause serious injury and which is not commonly used in security restricted areas, e.g. martial arts equipment, swords, sabres, etc.’;",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2014/687/annex/division/1",
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  "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."
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