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The Civil Aviation (Meteorological Service for Air Navigation) Regulations, 2025
12. Supply, use and quality management of meteorological information
Edition: 2026-03-03 · In force
12. Supply, use and quality management of meteorological information
(1)The meteorological service provider shall maintain close liaison with the users of the meteorological information on matters affecting the provision of meteorological service for air navigation.(2)A Meteorological services provider shall establish and implement a properly organized quality system comprising of procedures, processes and resources necessary to provide for the quality management of the meteorological information to be supplied to users.(3)The quality system established in accordance with subregulation (2) shall be in conformity with the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 9000 series of quality assurance standards and shall be certified by an approved organization recognized by the Authority.(4)The quality system shall provide the users with assurance that the meteorological information supplied complies with the stated requirements in terms of the geographical and spatial coverage, format and content, time and frequency of issuance and period of validity, as well as the accuracy of measurements, observations and forecasts.(5)When the quality system indicates that meteorological information to be supplied to the users does not comply with the stated requirements, and automatic error correction procedures are not appropriate, such information shall not be supplied to the users unless it is validated with the originator.(6)In regard to the exchange of meteorological information for operational purposes, the quality system shall include verification and validation procedures and resources for monitoring adherence to the prescribed transmission schedules for individual messages or bulletins required to be exchanged, and the times of their filing for transmission.(7)The quality system shall be capable of detecting excessive transit times of messages and bulletins received.(8)Demonstration of compliance of the quality system applied shall be by audit and if non-conformity of the system is identified, action shall be initiated to determine and correct the cause.(9)All audit observations shall be evidenced and properly documented.(10)The specific value of any of the elements given in—(a)an observation report shall be the best approximation of the actual conditions at the time of observation as set out in the Manual of implementing standards - meteorological service for air navigation; or(b)a forecast report shall be the most probable value which the element is likely to assume during the period of the forecast as set out in the Manual of implementing standards - Meteorological service for Air Navigation.(11)The meteorological information supplied to the users listed in regulation 10(2) shall be consistent with Human Factors principles and shall be in forms which require a minimum of interpretation by the users.