Article 2

Regulation (EC) No 2320/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2002 establishing common rules in the field of civil aviation security (Text with EEA relevance) - Interinstitutional declaration · European Union

For the purpose of this Regulation: ‘airport’ shall mean any area in a Member State which is open for commercial air transport operations; ‘Chicago Convention’ shall mean the Convention on International Civil Aviation and its annexes, signed in Chicago on 7 December 1944; ‘aviation security’ shall mean the combination of measures and human and natural resources intended to safeguard civil aviation against acts of unlawful interference.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-11-10 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.