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1. The Secretary of State may by regulations made by statutory instrument amend the Annex
to this Regulation.
2. The amendments referred to in paragraph 1 may include, but shall not be limited to,
amendments required to ensure consistency of legal provisions during the future extension
of this Regulation to contain the relevant provisions of other ICAO annexes and documents
than Annex 2 or changes stemming from updates of those ICAO annexes and documents
themselves or from changes to any relevant European Union Regulations.
3. Regulations under paragraph 1 —
(a) may make different provision for different purposes;
(b) may make transitional, transitory or saving provision;
(c) may make consequential, incidental or supplementary provision.
4. A statutory instrument containing regulations under paragraph 1 is subject to annulment in
pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.
ARTICLE 8.2 GM1 Transitional and additional measures
Without prejudice to its publication in other relevant sections of the Aeronautical Information Publication
(AIP), information pertaining to Article 8.2 should be grouped and published in the national AIP section
GEN 1.6.
Examples:
(a) If the competent authority decides to permit VFR flights at night in accordance with
SERA.5005(c), general information for the permission should be published in the AIP
section GEN 1.6 with reference to the section in the AIP where the details for the conditions
applicable for VFR flights at night are published;
(b) If the competent authority designates certain parts of airspace as Radio Mandatory Zones
(RMZs) and/or as Transponder Mandatory Zones (TMZs) in accordance with SERA.6005,
the general information for such designation should be published in the AIP section GEN
1.6 with reference to the section in the AIP where the details for the established RMZs
and/or TMZs are published;
(c) If the competent authority selects separation minima in accordance with SERA.8010(c)(2),
general information for such selection should be published in AIP section GEN 1.6 with
reference to the section in the AIP where the details for the these minima are published.
It should be noted that the above examples do not cover all possible cases which may require
publication of information relevant to Article 8.2 in the national AIP section GEN 1.6.
ARTICLE 10 Article 10 Amendments to Regulations (EC) No 730/2006, (EC) No 1033/2006, (EC) No 1794/2006, (EC) No
1265/2007, (EU) No 255/2010 and Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1035/2011
2. Regulation (EC) No 1033/2006 is amended as follows:
(a) Article 2(2), point 8, shall be replaced by the following:
‘8. “IFR” means the symbol used to designate instrument flight rules.’;
(b) Article 3(1) shall be replaced by the following:
‘1. The provisions specified in the Annex shall apply to the submission, acceptance
and distribution of flight plans for every flight subject to this Regulation and to all
changes to a key item in a flight plan in the preflight phase in accordance with this
Regulation.’;
(c) the heading and first indent of the Annex shall be replaced by the following:
‘PROVISIONS REFERRED TO IN ARTICLE 3(1)
'1. Section 4 of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 923/2012
5. Regulation (EU) No 255/2010 is amended as follows:
(a) Article 2(3) shall be replaced by the following:
‘3. “IFR” means the symbol used to designate instrument flight rules’.
6. Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1035/2011 is amended as follows:
(a) the reference in Annex II, point 4(a), to ‘Annex 2 on rules of the air in its 10th edition of
July 2005’ shall be replaced by a reference to ‘Implementing Regulation (EU) No
923/2012’;
(b) the reference in Annex II, point 4(c), to ‘Annex 11 on air traffic services in its 13th
edition of July 2001, including all amendments up to No 47-B’ shall be amended by
adding at the end of that sentence ‘and Implementing Regulation (EU) No 923/2012
as applicable.
(c) the reference in Annex III, point 2(b), to ‘Annex 11 on air traffic services in its 13th
edition of July 2001, including all amendments up to No 47-B’ shall be amended by
adding at the end of that sentence ‘and Implementing Regulation (EU) No 923/2012
as applicable.

SECTION 1 FLIGHT OVER THE HIGH SEAS
Reference Description
SERA.1001 General
(a) For flight over the high seas, the rules specified in Annex 2 to the Chicago Convention
shall apply without exception. For the purposes of continuity and seamless operation of air
traffic services the provisions of Annex 11 to the Chicago Convention may be applied in
airspace over high seas in a manner that is consistent with how those provisions are
applied over the territory of the United Kingdom. This shall be without prejudice to the
operations of State Aircraft under Article 3 of the Chicago Convention. This shall also be
without prejudice to the responsibilities of the United Kingdom to ensure that aircraft
operations within the Flight Information Regions within which the United Kingdom is
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