## Application 

3. —(1) Subject to paragraph (2), this Order applies to civil international aviation undertaken by aeroplane operators for whom the United Kingdom is the administering State, in accordance with article 8, under this Order. 

(2) This Order does not apply to the following flights— 

(a) humanitarian, medical and firefighting flights, or to international flights preceding or following a humanitarian, medical or firefighting flight provided such flights are conducted with the same aeroplane, and are required to accomplish the related humanitarian, medical or firefighting activities or to reposition the aeroplane after that for its next activity, or 

(b) flights by State aircraft. 

(3) The aeroplane operator must provide supporting evidence of such activities to the verification body or, upon request, to the Regulator. 

## Interpretation 

4.  In this Order— 

“Aerodrome” means a defined area on land or water, including any buildings, installations and equipment, intended to be used either wholly or in part for the arrival, departure and surface movement of aircraft; 

“Aerodrome pair” means a group of two aerodromes composed of a departing aerodrome and an arrival aerodrome; 

“Aeroplane” means a power-driven heavier-than-air aircraft, deriving its lift in flight chiefly from aerodynamic reactions on surfaces which remain fixed under given conditions of flight; 

“Aeroplane operator” means a person identified under article 5; 

“Aeroplane owner” means a person, organisation or enterprise identified via Item 4 (name of owner) and Item 5 (address of owner) on the certificate of registration of an aeroplane; 

“Aeroplane type” means the aeroplane types described in “Doc 8643 – Aircraft Type Designators”( a ); 

“ACARS” means Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System; 

“Administrative partnership” means the delegation of administering tasks in this Order from one State to one or more other States; 

“AFBO” means Average Fuel Burn Ratio; 

“Air Operator Certificate” or “AOC” means a certificate issued by the CAA authorising an operator to carry out specified commercial air transport operations; 

“CAA” means the Civil Aviation Authority of the United Kingdom; 

“CERT” means the CO$_{2}$ Estimation and Reporting Tool regulated by Schedule 3; 

“Chicago Convention” means the Convention on International Civil Aviation and its Annexes( b ), signed in Chicago on 7th December 1944, as amended; 

“chief inspector” means the chief inspector constituted under regulation 8(3) of the Pollution Prevention and Control (Industrial Emissions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2013( c ); 

“CO$_{2}$” means carbon dioxide; 

“CO$_{2}$e” means carbon dioxide equivalent; 

“Compliance period” means the relevant timeline set out in Schedule 1; 

