Article 2 Definitions

‘airport’ means any area of land especially adapted for the landing, taking-off and manoeuvres of aircraft, including the ancillary installations which these operations may involve for the requirements of aircraft traffic and services including the installations needed to assist commercial air services;

‘airport system’ means two or more airports grouped together to serve the same city or conurbation, as referred to in Annex II to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2408/92 of 23 July 1992 on access for Community air carriers to intra-Community air routes;

‘managing body of the airport’ means a body which, in conjuntion with other activities or not as the case may be, has as its objective under national law or regulation the administration and management of the airport infrastructures, and the coordination and control of the activities of the different operators present in the airport or airport system concerned;

‘airport user’ means any natural or legal person responsible for the carriage of passengers, mail and/or freight by air from, or to the airport in question;

‘groundhandling’ means the services provided to airport users at airports as described in the Annex;

‘self-handling’ means a situation in which an airport user directly provides for himself one or more categories of groundhandling services and concludes no contract of any description with a third party for the provision of such services; for the purposes of this definition, among themselves airport users shall not be deemed to be third parties where:

‘supplier of groundhandling services’ means any natural or legal person supplying third parties with one or more categories of groundhandling services.