| (1) | The Meteorological Service Provider shall employ, contract, or engage qualified, trained, and competent personnel to provide aeronautical meteorological services for air navigation. |
| (2) | The Meteorological Service Provider shall determine, implement, and assess competencies of its personnel providing aeronautical meteorological services for air navigation. |
| (3) | The Meteorological Service Provider shall assess the competency of its personnel at least once every three years and such competencies shall include the ability to— |
| (a) | analyse and continuously monitor weather situation; |
| (b) | forecast aeronautical meteorological phenomenon and parameters; |
| (c) | warn of a hazardous phenomenon; |
| (d) | ensure quality of meteorological information and services; |
| (e) | communicate meteorological information to users; |
| (f) | observe and record an aeronautical meteorological phenomenon and parameters; |
| (g) | ensure quality of system performance and of meteorological information; and |
| (h) | supervise production and release of meteorological information to users referred in regulation 174.01.1. |
| (4) | Personnel providing aeronautical meteorological services for air navigation shall be suitably trained and qualified. |
| (5) | The Meteorological Service Provider shall establish and implement a comprehensive training programme as well as a training plan to ensure that its personnel are adequately trained. |
| (6) | The Meteorological Service Provider shall establish a system to maintain training and competency assessment records for personnel providing aeronautical meteorological services for air navigation. |
| (7) | The Meteorological Service Provider shall maintain job profiles of personnel providing the aeronautical meteorological service for air navigation. |
| (8) | The training programme and training plan referred to in subregulation (5) shall provide for on the job and refresher training. |
[Regulation 174.02.1 substituted by regulation 23(c) of Notice No. R. 3170, GG48228, dated 17 March 2023 (Twenty-Sixth Amendment of the Civil Aviation Regulations, 2023)]
