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title: "Article 1 Subject-matter and scope — Cover Regulation, Continuing Airworthiness · Avioverse"
description: "This Regulation establishes common technical requirements and administrative procedures to ensure:"
url: "https://avioverse.aero/regulations/easa/continuing-airworthiness/cover-regulation/powers-and-recital/article-1"
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# Article 1 Subject-matter and scope

Cover Regulation · Regulation (EU) No 1321/2014 · EAR revision 2 Sep 2025

IR Implementing rule

## Article 1 Subject-matter and scope

This Regulation establishes common technical requirements and administrative procedures to ensure:

(a) the [continuing airworthiness](https://avioverse.aero/glossary/easa/continuing-airworthiness) of [aircraft](https://avioverse.aero/glossary/easa/aircraft), including any [component](https://avioverse.aero/glossary/easa/component) for installation thereto, which are:

(i) registered in a Member State, unless their regulatory safety oversight has been delegated to a third country and they are not used by an EU operator; or

(ii) registered in a third country and used by an EU operator, where their regulatory safety oversight has been delegated to a Member State;

(b) compliance with the essential requirements set out in Regulation (EC) No 216/2008 for continuing airworthiness of aircraft registered in a third country and components for installation thereon for which their regulatory safety oversight has not been delegated to a Member State that are dry leased-in by a licence air carrier in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1008/2008 of the European Parliament and the Council.

IR · Article 1 — Regulation (EU) No 1321/2014 · Continuing Airworthiness Easy Access Rules · EAR revision 2 Sep 2025

[All rules in Powers and recital](https://avioverse.aero/regulations/easa/continuing-airworthiness/cover-regulation/powers-and-recital)

Consolidated from the EASA Easy Access Rules (revision 2 Sep 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.