25.11.2011 Official Journal of the European Union L 311/1 II (Non-legislative acts) REGULATIONS COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 1178/2011 of 3 November 2011 laying down technical requirements and administrative procedures related to civil aviation aircrew pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 216/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council (Text with EEA relevance) THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION, Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, Having regard to Regulation (EC) No 216/2008 of the European the relevant essential requirements. However, Regulation (EC) No 216/2008 envisages the possibility of general medical practitioners to act as aero-medical examiners under certain conditions and if permitted under national law. Parliament and of the Council of 20 February 2008 on *) }Clabm crew anOIV?d in the operation Of_ certain aircraft . ' R 1 ave to comply with the relevant essential requirements common rules in the field of civil aviation and establishing a ) . E - ) ; set out in Annex IV to Regulation (EC) No 216/2008. uropean  Aviation Safety Agency, and repealing Coundil According to that Regulation, cabin crew should be peri- Directive 91/670/EEC, Regulation” (EC) No 1592/2002 and corng guation, ca be o . . . . odically assessed for medical fitness to safely exercise Directive 2004/36/EC ('), and in particular Articles 7(6), 8(5) . . . . their assigned safety duties. Compliance must be shown and 10(5) thereof, . . by an appropriate assessment based on aero-medical best practice. Whereas: (5)  Regulation (EC) No 216/2008 requires the Commission (1) Regulation (EC) No 216/2008 aims at establishing and to adopt the necessary implementing rules for estab- maintaining a high uniform level of civil aviation safety lishing the conditions for certifying pilots as well as in Europe. That Regulation provides for the means of persons involved in their training, testing or checking, achieving that objective and other objectives in the for the attestation of cabin crew members and for the field of civil aviation safety. assessment of their medical fitness. (2)  Pilots involved in the operation of certain aircraft, as well as flight simulation training devices, persons and organi- (6)  The requirements and procedures for the conversion of sations involved in training, testing or checking of those national pilot licences and national flight engineer pilots, have to comply with the relevant essential licences into pilot licences should be laid down, to requirements set out in Annex III to Regulation (EC) ensure that they are allowed to perform their activities No 216/2008. According to that Regulation pilots as under harmonised conditions; flight test qualifications well as persons and organisations involved in their should also be converted in accordance with this Regu- training should be certified once they have been found lation. to comply with essential requirements. (3 Similarly, pilots should be issued with a medical (7) It should be possible for Member States to accept licences certificate and aero-medical examiners, responsible for assessing the medical fitness of pilots, should be certified once they have been found to comply with () O] L 79, 19.3.2008, p. 1. issued by third countries where a level of safety equivalent to that specified by Regulation (EC) No 216/2008 can be guaranteed; Conditions for the acceptance of licences issued by third countries should be laid down.