{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2019-945/article-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2019-945/article-18.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2019/945",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/945 of 12 March 2019 on unmanned aircraft systems and on third-country operators of unmanned aircraft systems",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2019-945",
  "path": "article/18",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Approval",
  "text": "(1) A market surveillance may approve bodies to carry out third-party conformity assessment tasks under this Regulation.\n(2) A market surveillance authority may not approve a body to carry out third-party conformity assessment tasks under paragraph 1 unless satisfied the body meets the criteria specified in Article 22.\n(3) Where a body demonstrates its conformity with applicable designated standards or parts thereof, it shall be presumed to meet the requirements set out in Article 22 insofar as the applicable designated standards cover those requirements.\n(4) The Secretary of State must—\na) assign an approved body identification number to each approved body;\nb) compile and maintain a register of approved bodies containing in relation to each body—\ni) the approved body identification number,\nii) details of the activities for which the body is approved, and\niii) any restrictions on the activities for which the body is approved.\n(5) The register referred to in paragraph 4 must be made publicly available.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Art. 18 substituted (31.12.2020) by The Unmanned Aircraft (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1593), regs. 1(2), 22"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Art. 18(1) substituted (1.1.2026) by The Unmanned Aircraft (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/1106), regs. 1(2), 6(4)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Art. 18(2) substituted (1.1.2026) by The Unmanned Aircraft (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/1106), regs. 1(2), 6(4)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Art. 18(5) substituted (1.1.2026) by The Unmanned Aircraft (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/1106), regs. 1(2), 6(4)(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2019/945/article/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:43:20.104396+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."
}