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1. It shall be prohibited for any aircraft operated by Russian air carriers, including as a marketing carrier in code-sharing or blocked-space arrangements, or for any Russian registered aircraft, or for any non-Russian-registered aircraft which is owned or chartered, or otherwise controlled by any Russian natural or legal person, entity or body, to land in, take off from or overfly the territory of the Union. The prohibition in this paragraph shall also apply to any other aircraft which is used for a non-scheduled flight and with regard to which a Russian natural or legal person, entity or body is in a position to effectively determine the place or time of its take-off or landing. Without prejudice to the rules laid down in Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 923/2012 () with regard to the submission of a flight plan for flights across borders, the prohibition in this paragraph shall not apply to manned aircraft that have a maximum seating capacity of 4 persons and a maximum take-off mass of no more than 2 000 kg when used for private, non-commercial, non-corporate, flights carried out within Union territory and airspace for recreational purposes or for the purpose of training for private pilot licences and related ratings with Union training providers.

1a. Without prejudice to paragraph 5, aircraft operators shall provide, for non-scheduled flights, information needed for the purpose of verifying compliance with paragraph 1, including among other information:

(a) credible and satisfactory information regarding the actual ultimate beneficial owner of the aircraft and, where applicable, of the natural or legal person, entity or body ultimately chartering the aircraft; and (b) a general declaration, passenger manifest and other official documents displaying the full names, birth dates, birth places and nationalities of all passengers and the crew members, where reasonable grounds to suspect circumvention of the prohibition in paragraph 1 exist, based on factors such as routing and origin of the flight, or information about the relevant operator. The information shall be provided upon request of the competent authorities of the Member State of departure, destination or overflying. The information shall be provided in advance of landing in, taking off from or overflying the territory of the Union, within a deadline set by the competent authorities of the Member State or Member States concerned.

Any processing of personal data pursuant to this paragraph shall be carried out in accordance with this Regulation and with Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council () and Regulation (EU) 2018/1725 of the European Parliament and of the Council () and only in so far as necessary for the application of this Regulation.

1b. It shall be prohibited for air carriers operating domestic flights within Russia or selling, supplying, transferring or exporting, directly or indirectly, aircraft, or any of the goods or technology referred to in Article 3c(1) to a Russian air carrier or for flights within Russia, as listed in Annex XLVI, as well as for any entity owned or controlled by such air carrier, to land in, take off from or overfly the territory of the Union.

2. Paragraphs 1 and 1b shall not apply in the case of an emergency landing or an emergency overflight.

3. By way of derogation from paragraphs 1 and 1b, the competent authorities may authorise an aircraft to land in, take off from or overfly the territory of the Union if the competent authorities have determined that such landing, take-off or overflight is required for humanitarian purposes or for any other purpose consistent with the objectives of this Regulation.

3a. By way of derogation from paragraph 1 of this Article, unmanned aircraft operated in the ‘open’ category, as defined in Article 4 of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/947 (), and used for private, non-commercial, non-corporate flights carried out within Union territory and airspace for recreational purposes, may be authorised by the competent authorities, under such conditions as they deem appropriate, to land in, take off from or overfly the territory of the Union.

4. The Member State or Member States concerned shall inform the other Member States and the Commission of any authorisation granted under paragraphs 3 and 3a within two weeks of the authorisation.

5. Aircraft operators of non-scheduled flights between Russia and the Union, operated directly or via a third country, shall notify prior to their operation, and at least 48 hours in advance, all relevant information concerning the flight to the competent authorities of the Members State of departure or destination.

6. Upon refusal of a f light notified in accordance with paragraph 5, the Member State concerned shall immediately inform the other Member States, the Network Manager and the Commission.