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# Article 55 Essential requirements for unmanned aircraft

Basic Regulation · Regulation (EU) 2018/1139 · EAR revision 16 Jan 2023

IR Implementing rule

## Article 55 Essential requirements for unmanned aircraft

The design, production, maintenance and operation of [aircraft](https://avioverse.aero/glossary/easa/aircraft) referred to in point (a) and (b) of Article 2(1), where it concerns [unmanned aircraft](https://avioverse.aero/glossary/easa/unmanned-aircraft), and their engines, propellers, parts, [non-installed equipment](https://avioverse.aero/glossary/easa/non-installed-equipment) and equipment to control them remotely, as well as the personnel, including remote pilots, and organisations involved in those activities, shall comply with the essential requirements set out in Annex IX, and, where the delegated acts referred to in Article 58 and the implementing acts referred to in Article 57 so provide, with the essential requirements set out in Annexes II, IV and V.

IR · Article 55 — Regulation (EU) 2018/1139 · Basic Regulation Easy Access Rules · EAR revision 16 Jan 2023

[All rules in CHAPTER III – SUBSTANTIVE REQUIREMENTS](https://avioverse.aero/regulations/easa/basic-regulation/chapter-iii-substantive-requirements)

Consolidated from the EASA Easy Access Rules (revision 16 Jan 2023, 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.