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title: "GM5 Article 2(3) Scope — Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2025/20, Ground Handling · Avioverse"
description: "OIL HANDLING (a) Aircraft oil handling means replenishing the aircraft’s oil."
url: "https://avioverse.aero/regulations/easa/ground-handling/commission-delegated-regulation-eu-2025-20/cover-regulation/gm5-article-2-3"
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# GM5 Article 2(3) Scope

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

GM Guidance material

## GM5 Article 2(3) Scope

OIL HANDLING

(a) Aircraft oil handling means replenishing the aircraft’s oil. Like any other activity related to aircraft maintenance, it is subject to Regulation (EU) No 1321/2014, on continuing airworthiness, as a maintenance task, and therefore exempted from compliance with Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2025/20. Oil handling is performed by personnel of a maintenance organisation approved under Regulation (EU) No 1321/2014 or compliant with ICAO Annex 8 Maintenance of Aircraft, when it is performed on thirdcountry registered aircraft by organisations that are not subject to Regulation (EU) No 1321/2014. This task may also be performed by the flight crew for those aircraft for which oil handling is mentioned in the aircraft flight manual, as part of the pre-flight [inspection](https://avioverse.aero/glossary/easa/inspection) as indicated in AMC M.A.301(a), paragraphs 2 and 3, to the abovementioned Regulation.

(b) Aircraft may be replenished with oil either by aircraft operator personnel or by a contracted thirdparty provider that holds approval in accordance with the requirements mentioned above.

GM · GM5 Article 2(3) — 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 Cover Regulation](https://avioverse.aero/regulations/easa/ground-handling/commission-delegated-regulation-eu-2025-20/cover-regulation)

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.