New EU regulation on drone operations set to take off in December 2020 – International Law Office

International Law Office published yesterday, June 17, the article: “New EU regulation on drone operations set to take off in December 2020” in which Miquel Campos, lawyer at Augusta Abogados and aviation specialist, analyses the most relevant news of the Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/947 of 24 May 2019 on the rules and procedures for the operation of unmanned aircraft (UAS).

This new regulation, which will replace most of the existing national provisions on operations with unmanned aircraft in EU member states, was due to enter into force on 1 July 2020. However, given the current situation due to the COVID-19 crisis, the European Commission has postponed the application of the regulation until the end of this year.

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