Subject: First release of the Repository - TRACE
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Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2026 12:01:47 +0200

Dear UAS TeB Members,

I hope you had a good start in 2026!

I would like to inform you that EASA has officially released the
Repository, now to be referred to as “Trusted Repository for Aviation
Certificates Europe – TRACE”, for 4 UAS related information objects which
are:

*	Registration of UAS operator
*	UAS Operational Declaration
*	Operational Authorisation for UAS operators
*	Light UAS operator certificate

It is now up to the Member States to contact EASA for the onboarding
process. Member States are facing a legal deadline of 1 January 2027 to
include the information into TRACE.

Please carefully read the email below for the onboarding process and
contact your respective MAB member to obtain the necessary information.

Kind regards

Giuseppe

Giuseppe SCANNAPIECO

Innovative Air Mobility Policy – Section Manager

European Union Aviation Safety Agency

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Subject: First release of the Repository - TRACE

Dear Repository Steering Committee members,

The European Union has built an efficient yet safe aviation system in
which stakeholders profit from the EU single market. We do not only trust
each other, we also support each other in our certification, oversight and
enforcement tasks. Through Article 74 of the Basic Regulation, the Agency
has been given the task to “establish and maintain” a repository of
information to support the effective cooperation.

The project for this repository, now rebranded to “Trusted Repository for
Aviation Certificates Europe – TRACE”, started in 2020 and passed its
first milestone in October 2024 with the publication of the implementing
Regulation (EU) 2023/2117.

Today we have reached another milestone: I am happy to announce the first
release of TRACE, which has been prepared for the first 4 information
objects related to the UAS domain:

*	Registration of UAS operator
*	UAS Operational Declaration
*	Operational Authorisation for UAS operators
*	Light UAS operator certificate

The deadlines for the National Competent Authorities (NCAs) to send the
data for the above-mentioned certificates is 1 January 2027. You are
kindly invited to contact EASA to get connected (onboarded) to TRACE for
that purpose. The onboarding process can be summarised as follows:

*	The NCA onboards the “Community Test environment”; this
environment fully replicates the “production” environment and can be used
to test and prove that the NCA is able to send their data though a
machine-to-machine connection
*	Once the NCA has proven that they are able to push the data in the
format agreed with the “Repository Steering Committee”, that NCA will be
onboarded to the Production environment. From that moment onwards, the NCA
can send (copies of) their data to TRACE

The access by authorised staff members to TRACE is being arranged through
a separate process; the “account managers” that you have nominated earlier
will be contacted in 2026 to arrange the access.

The documentation necessary for a successful onboarding and transmission
of data is attached. The latest version is also available in the
<https://docs.easa.europa.eu/case/eab-repif-rsc/DocumentLibraryPublic/Form
s/Explorer%20Documents.aspx> documents library of Repository Steering
Committee’s Workspace.

To get onboarded to TRACE community test environment , I kindly ask you to
contact us at  <mailto:[email-masked]>
[email-masked]. Subsequently, we will offer you individual
and joint sessions to explain the onboarding process and get you
connected. Please do not wait too long: firstly, you are facing the
deadline to send your data to TRACE and secondly, the onboarding queue
will become longer during the year.

Thank you for your support and partnership this year. Wishing you a
restful holiday and a prosperous 2026!

Best regards,

Christopher

Christopher Holgate-Romanov

Head of Department - Strategy and Better Regulation

European Union Aviation Safety Agency

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