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Civilian drones - New regulations since January 1, 2016

Mise à jour le 11/01/2016

In close consultation with users (leisure or professionals) and competent state services, work on desirable regulatory developments has made it possible to revise the regulations in order to make it more readable, more suited to needs, to simplify certain formalitiesAdministrative, while improving the compatibility of changes in telepiloted aircraft with the circulation of aircraft in low and very low height and guaranteeing the safety of other users.

Two texts of December 17, 2015 therefore now define the regulations for the use of drones, in force since January 1, 2016:

These two texts distinguish two populations in office, not From the machines themselves, but From the use made of them:

- When this use is limited to leisure and competition, we speak of aeromodeles, range in which drones purchased on toy or high-tech shelves and used for leisure or competition join types of known and regulated aircraftfor decades;

- For other uses, in a professional context we are talking about specific activities or, for development or development, experimentation flights.

In this context, thefts made in the populated zone are now subject to a prior declaration to the territorially competent prefect that can give rise to a prohibition or a restriction of theft.The declaration is made by the operators with a notice of five working days before the implementation of the mission using the CERFA form n ° 15476*01 titled "Declaration prior to the flight in the populated area of an aircraft circulating without anyone on board",Available From the Minister responsible for civil aviation (Directorate General of Civil Aviation) on the site www.sustainable development.gouv.FR/DEMARCHES-ET-FORMULARS, 45926.HTML and published on the Service-Public Site.Fr.