
Article 1 
Regulation (EC) No 29/2009 is amended as follows:

((1)) in Article 1, paragraph 3 is replaced by the following:
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3. This Regulation shall apply to all flights operating as general air traffic in accordance with instrument flight rules within the airspace above FL285 defined in Parts A and B of Annex I.';
((2)) in Article 3, paragraphs 2, 3, 4 and 5 are replaced by the following:
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2. Without prejudice to paragraph 3, operators shall ensure that aircraft operating flights referred to in Article 1(3) have the capability to operate the data link services defined in Annex II as from 5 February 2020.
3. Paragraph 2 shall not apply to:
(a) aircraft with an individual certificate of airworthiness first issued before 1 January 2014 and fitted with data link equipment certified against the requirements of one of the Eurocae documents specified in point (10) of Annex III;
(b) aircraft which have an individual certificate of airworthiness first issued before 31 December 2003 and which will cease operation in the airspace referred to in Article 1(3) before 31 December 2022;
(c) State aircraft;
(d) aircraft flying in the airspace referred to in Article 1(3) for testing, delivery or for maintenance purposes or with data link constituents temporarily inoperative under conditions specified in the applicable minimum equipment list required by point (1) of Annex III and Regulation (EC) No 216/2008 and its implementing rules.
4. Member States which decide to equip new transport type State aircraft entering into service after 1 January 2019 with data link capability relying upon standards which are not specific to military operational requirements, shall ensure that those aircraft have the capability to operate the data link services defined in Annex II.';
((3)) in Article 15, in the second paragraph, the words ‘7 February 2013’ are replaced by ‘5 February 2018’;
((4)) in Annex I, in Part B, the following is inserted after ‘— Warszawa FIR,’: ‘— Zagreb FIR,’.
Article 2 
Implementing Regulation (EU) No 441/2014 is repealed.
Article 3 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.Done at Brussels, 26 February 2015.
For the Commission
The President
Jean-Claude JUNCKER