AMC & GM to Part-AIS — Issue 1, Amendment 3

Acceptable Means of Compliance and Guidance Material to Annex VI (Part-AIS) to Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/373 Issue 1, Amendment 3

Annex II to ED Decision 2024/006/R ‘AMC and GM to Part-AIS — Issue 1, Amendment 3’

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Annex VI (AMC and GM to Part-AIS) to ED Decision 2017/001/R of the Executive Director of the Agency of 8 March 2017 is amended as follows:

Annex VI

AMC1 AIS.OR.325 Aeronautical charts

PRODUCTION

Aeronautical charts should be produced in accordance with the specifications contained in ICAO Annex 4, Amendment No 61, except that any radio mandatory zones (RMZs) and transponder mandatory zones (TMZs) should be depicted on the ‘En-route chart – ICAO’, the ‘Visual approach chart – ICAO’ and the ‘Area chart – ICAO’, as follows: (a) the radio mandatory zones and the transponder mandatory zones should be displayed with an RMZ tag and a TMZ tag respectively, and, if both zones are defined for a specific area, with an RMZ/TMZ tag. The vertical limits of the zone should be indicated under the tag. A thick, dark, grey-dashed and dotted line should be used to show the boundaries of the zones in all cases.

GM1 AIS.OR.325 Aeronautical charts

PRODUCTION

The radio mandatory zones (RMZs) and transponder mandatory zones (TMZs) on the ‘En-route chart – ICAO’, the ‘Visual approach chart – ICAO’ and the ‘Area chart – ICAO’ may be depicted as in the following examples:

GM8 AIS.TR.305(c) Aeronautical information publication (AIP)

PUBLICATION OF RADIO MANDATORY ZONES (RMZs) AND TRANSPONDER MANDATORY ZONES (TMZs)

(a) The requirement to include a detailed description of RMZs and TMZs in the AIP, including in the relevant charts, should be met in a clear and unambiguous manner. (b) The following illustrates the appropriate AIP sections where RMZ and TMZ information should be included:

(1) Section GEN 1.5 should contain any relevant information regarding aircraft equipment required for operations in RMZs and TMZs. (2) Section ENR 2 should contain the information on RMZs and TMZs in the air traffic services airspace and other regulated airspace. (3) Section ENR 6 should contain an en-route chart illustrating the RMZs and TMZs. (4) Section AD 2 should contain the aerodrome-specific information, including the visual approach and area charts with the information on RMZs and TMZs.