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UK Civil Aviation Regulations

These are published by the CAA on our UK Regulations pages. EU Regulations and EASA Access Guides published by EASA no longer apply in the UK. Our website and publications are being reviewed to update all references. Any references to EU law and EASA Access guides should be disregarded and where applicable the equivalent UK versions referred to instead.

Initial Airworthiness



UK Reg (EU) 748/2012 (the UK Initial Airworthiness Regulation)



Initial Airworthiness consolidated Regulation, CS and GM to UK Regulation (EU) 748-2012 (Aviation Regulatory Library)

Last amended 21 June 2023

Aviation Regulatory Library

The Aviation Regulation Library contains the up to date consolidation of the individual Regulations, Acceptable Means of Compliance (AMC), Guidance Material (GM) and, where appropriate, Certification Specifications (CS).

This consolidated material is available in two formats, as a webpage, with expandable elements of the regulation, AMC, GM and CS, and a PDF document, which sets out regulation with corresponding AMC, GM and CS in sequential order.

As these consolidations are published separate links to each regulation and its respective AMC/GM/CS will be replaced by a single link to the Aviation Regulatory Library.

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AMC/GM/CS/SC

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