UK Reg (EU) 2017/373 Proposed Changes

Current text:

(b) When nothing is defined in European Union or national legislation, the determination of the failures of systems and constituents that need to be reported is done by the service provider and needs to be approved by the competent authority. This determination can be done as a result of an assessment of the installations or changes to the systems and constituents.

Proposed new text:

(b) When determining which failures must be reported the service provider should consider the following: 

1. The determination can be done as a result of an assessment of the installations or changes to the systems and constituents.  

2. The following failures should be deemed reportable: 

1. Instrument landing system category reduced, change to separation standard, or similar effect; 
2. Increase in controller workload, i.e., non-seamless loss of frequency leading to selection of alternative frequency; 
3. Complete failure of facility that did not lead to increase in pilot or ATCO workload, but that in normal operational conditions would have led to an increase in workload. Examples: failure happening outside operational hours; failure during maintenance activity. 

3. Where the engineering function is carried out by a third party the service provider is responsible for determining what must be reported.  

4. Where a failure occurs in a delegated air traffic services (ATS) area as defined in Schedule 1, paragraph 2 of the Air Traffic Services Licence for NATS (EN ROUTE) PLC, the service provider responsible for reporting the failure is the ANSP certified to provide services in that ATS area.