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The Unmanned Aircraft (Market Surveillance Authority) Regulations 2025

S.I. 2025/1328 · Made 15 December 2025

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CIVIL AVIATION

Made 15th December 2025

Coming into force 16th December 2025

The Secretary of State makes these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by Article 3B(1) of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/945 of 12 March 2019 on unmanned aircraft systems and on third-country operators of unmanned aircraft systemsf1.

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Footnotes

f1

EUR 2019/945, amended by S.I. 2020/1593; there are other amending instruments but none is relevant.

Contents

  1. 1Citation, commencement and extent
  2. 2Prescription of the CAA as market surveillance authority
  3. Signature
  4. Explanatory note

1Citation, commencement and extent

(1)

These Regulations may be cited as the Unmanned Aircraft (Market Surveillance Authority) Regulations 2025.

(2)

These Regulations come into force on the day after the day on which they are made.

(3)

These Regulations extend to England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

2Prescription of the CAA as market surveillance authority

The CAAf1 is the market surveillance authority for the purposes of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/945 of 12 March 2019 on unmanned aircraft systems and on third-country operators of unmanned aircraft systems.

Signature

Signed by the authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

Keir Mather

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State

15th December 2025

Department for Transport

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations prescribe the Civil Aviation Authority as the market surveillance authority for the purposes of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/945 of 12 March 2019 on unmanned aircraft systems and on third-country operators of unmanned aircraft systems (EUR 2019/945).

A full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no, or no significant, impact on the private, voluntary or public sector is foreseen.