Article 42A - Post-implementation period continuity provision

1. Paragraph 2 applies where, at any time before any technical standard has been adopted and designated as a designated standard in accordance with Article 3A—

(a)  a UAS, accessories kit or remote identification add-on has been assessed by a notified body in accordance with any of the EU conformity assessment procedures;

(b)  an EU declaration of conformity has been drawn up in accordance with the EU Regulation in respect of the UAS or accessories kit; and

(c)  a CE marking has been affixed to the UAS or accessories kit.

2. Where this paragraph applies—

(a)  a UAS or accessories kit is to be treated as having been assessed in accordance with the equivalent conformity assessment procedure in Section 3 of Chapter 2 of the EU Regulation; and

(b)  the EU declaration of conformity and the CE marking are to be treated for the purposes of this Regulation and any other enactment relating to UAS, accessories kits or remote identification add-ons as if they were respectively a declaration of conformity under this Regulation and a UK marking.

3. In this Article—

(a)  ”CE marking”  has the same meaning as in Article 3(12) of the EU Regulation;

(b)  ”EU conformity assessment procedures”  means the procedures provided for under Article 13(2) of the EU Regulation;

(c)  ”EU declaration of conformity”  has the same meaning as in the EU Regulation;

(d)  ”notified body”  means a body notified to the Commission under Article 18 of the EU Regulation.