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title: "ORGH.GEN.170 Psychoactive substances and medicines — Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2025/20, Ground Handling · Avioverse"
description: "The ground handling organisation shall implement a procedure to ensure that its personnel:"
url: "https://avioverse.aero/regulations/easa/ground-handling/commission-delegated-regulation-eu-2025-20/annexes/orgh-gen-170"
---

# ORGH.GEN.170 Psychoactive substances and medicines

Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2025/20 · Regulations (EU) 2025/23 and 2025/24 · EAR revision 5 Nov 2025

IR Implementing rule

## ORGH.GEN.170 Psychoactive substances and medicines

(a) The [ground handling organisation](https://avioverse.aero/glossary/easa/ground-handling-organisation) shall implement a procedure to ensure that its personnel:

(1) do not perform any duties under the influence of alcohol, any psychoactive substances or any medicine that may have an effect on their abilities to perform their tasks in a manner contrary to safety;

(2) do not consume any of those substances while on duty.

(b) The procedure shall be included in the ground handling organisation’s management system.

IR · ORGH.GEN.170 — Regulations (EU) 2025/23 and 2025/24 · Regulation (EU) 2025/20 · Ground Handling Easy Access Rules · EAR revision 5 Nov 2025

GM Guidance material

## GM1 ORGH.GEN.170 Psychoactive substances and medicines

ICAO GUIDANCE AND AERODROME OPERATOR PROCEDURE

(a) Further guidance on this issue may be found in ICAO’s Manual on Prevention of Problematic Use of Substances in the Aviation Workplace (Doc 9654).

(b) Alternatively, the GH organisation may adopt the aerodrome operator’s procedure in this area and refer directly to it in its own documentation.

GM · GM1 ORGH.GEN.170 — Regulations (EU) 2025/23 and 2025/24 · ED Decision 2025/007/R · Ground Handling Easy Access Rules · EAR revision 5 Nov 2025

[All rules in Annexes](https://avioverse.aero/regulations/easa/ground-handling/commission-delegated-regulation-eu-2025-20/annexes)

Consolidated from the EASA Easy Access Rules (revision 5 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.