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AMC1 Article 14(6) Registration of UAS operators and ‘certified’ UAS

ED Decision 2020/022/R

UAS OPERATOR REGISTRATION NUMBER

(a) The unique UAS operator digital registration number that is issued by the Member States should consist of sixteen (16) alphanumerics in total, arranged as follows:

(1) the first three (3) alphanumerics (upper-case only) corresponding to the ISO 3166 Alpha‑3 code of the Member State of registration;

(2) followed by twelve (12) randomly generated characters that consist of alphanumerics (lower-case only); and

(3) one (1) character corresponding to the checksum that is generated in line with point (c).

(b) The Member States should randomly generate three (3) additional alphanumerics (lower-case only) called ‘secret digits’.

(c) The Member States should generate a checksum by applying the Luhn-mod-36 algorithm to the fifteen (15) alphanumerics that result from the concatenation, in the following order, of:

(1) the twelve (12) alphanumerics of the UAS operator registration number defined in point (a)(2); and

(2) the three (3) randomly generated ‘secret digits’ that are defined in point (b).

(d) For the Luhn-mod-36 algorithm, the mapping of the alphanumerics to the code-points should start with digits that are followed by lower-case letters, as shown below:

Alphanumeric

0

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

a

b

c

d

e

f

…

z

Code-point

0

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

…

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(e) At the time of registration, the Member State should provide the UAS operator with the full registration string that consists, in the following order, of:

(1) the UAS operator registration number as defined in point (a); and

(2) the three (3) randomly generated ‘secret digits’, separated by a hyphen ‘-’ (ASCII code [DEC] 45).