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title: "MED.B.005 General medical requirements — Part-MED · Avioverse"
description: "Applicants for a medical certificate shall be assessed in accordance with the detailed medical requirements set out in Sections 2 and 3."
url: "https://avioverse.aero/regulations/easa/aircrew/part-med/subpart-b/med-b-005"
---

# MED.B.005 General medical requirements

ANNEX IV (Part-MED) · Regulation (EU) No 1178/2011 · EAR revision 25 Nov 2025

IR Implementing rule

## MED.B.005 General medical requirements

Applicants for a medical certificate shall be assessed in accordance with the detailed medical requirements set out in Sections 2 and 3.

They shall, in addition, be assessed as unfit where they have any of the following medical conditions which entails a degree of functional incapacity which is likely to interfere with the safe exercise of the privileges of the licence applied for or could render the [applicant](https://avioverse.aero/glossary/easa/applicant) likely to become suddenly unable to exercise those privileges:

(a) abnormality, either congenital or acquired;

(b) active, latent, acute or chronic disease or disability;

(c) wound, injury or sequelae from operation;

(d) effect or side effect of any prescribed or non-prescribed therapeutic, diagnostic or preventive medication taken.

In their examination AMEs shall give proper consideration to the degenerative effects of ageing on the body systems.

IR · MED.B.005 — Regulation (EU) No 1178/2011 · Regulation (EU) 2024/2076 · Aircrew Easy Access Rules · EAR revision 25 Nov 2025

[All rules in SUBPART B – REQUIREMENTS FOR PILOT MEDICAL CERTIFICATES](https://avioverse.aero/regulations/easa/aircrew/part-med/subpart-b)

Consolidated from the EASA Easy Access Rules (revision 25 Nov 2025, extracted 13 Oct 2026) for convenience. Not the official publication — verify against the Official Journal of the European Union and the EASA publications before operational use.