On
1.1.2017 entered into force the Greek law on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), which
is the Decision of the Director of the Greek Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) No Δ/ΥΠΑ/21860/1422. The Decision
applies to all UAS that fly within Greek airspace or within international
airspace, but inside the Flight Information Region (FIR) / Upper Information
Region (UIR) of Greece.
Implementing
legislative measures of the Decision are pending, which means that details on
the application of its provisions are not yet known. Furthermore, many provisions of the Decision
are based on the Prototype Commission Regulation on Unmanned AircraftOperations published by EASA on 22 August 2016 for consultation purposes. This
is an additional hurdle to the implementation of the Decision, since this EASA
Prototype Regulation has not entered into force and contains rules on areas
that belong to the competence of the EU, such as product safety rules.
