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The sources, country by country: UAS zones in Europe

The register behind our survey. For each country: where the file is, where it says what may be done with it, the sentence copied word for word and the link. Read on 23 September 2026.

Zweryfikowano 23 September 2026 — sprawdzono ponownie 23 September 2026

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This page is the register behind the survey “A common unique digital format”. Every classification we publish about a country has its row here: the link to the source, the date we read it and the sentence that decides it, copied word for word in the original language. What has no link here, we do not write.

How we read a country

For each country, in its own language:

  1. the page that offers the file and the file itself, with its metadata;
  2. the reuse rules of the body that publishes it, usually in the transparency or open data section;
  3. the national law on reuse of public data, which transposes Directive (EU) 2019/1024, and the national open data portal;
  4. the AIP and the acts that establish the zones: aeronautical notices, decrees, regulations.

What classifies is what is written where the data is. The general terms of another website of the same body are reported separately, and do not decide. A page that cannot be read is marked as not reachable, with the exact error, and not as silence.

Every page cited is archived in the copy we read, with its SHA-256 fingerprint. If a source changes, the row changes, and we say so.

The classes

Class Meaning
LICENCE explicit licence or permission to reuse
RESTRICTION explicit prohibition or limit on reuse, where the data is
DECLARED PURPOSE no licence, but the authority writes to whom or for what it offers the file
SILENCE nothing written
NO PUBLIC FILE the data cannot be downloaded
NOT REACHABLE 403, TLS, timeout: with the exact error
CONTRADICTION two sources where the data is say different things

When the AIP or an official act declares the file publicly available, and where the file is there is no condition, the country goes onto the Dronetrake map citing the source, like Finland. A country that prohibits, or where two sources contradict each other, stays out until the authority replies.

The picture as of 23 September 2026

Country Class Where it is written (link) What we wrote before
🇦🇹 AT Austria RESTRICTION https://www.austrocontrol.at/luftfahrtbehoerde/lizenzen__bewilligungen/drohnen/geografische_zonen prohibits ✅
🇧🇪 BE Belgium DECLARED PUBLIC in the AIP (open WFS service, no conditions) https://ops.skeyes.be/html/belgocontrol_static/eaip/eAIP_Main/html/eAIP/EB-ENR-5.1-en-GB.html “no file” ❌
🇧🇬 BG Bulgaria DECLARED PUBLIC by act (Наредба Н-6 art. 55(5)) + free reuse under the body's rule (art. 15(2)); file page 403 https://www.caa.bg/bg/category/884/2579 “silent” ❌
🇭🇷 HR Croatia RESTRICTION (zones served by the AMC app without login, terms: reproduction prohibited) https://amc.crocontrol.hr/Pravne-napomene “no file” ⚠️
🇨🇾 CY Cyprus CONTRADICTION (decree: «δημοσιοποιεί» · page: All Rights Reserved · law: reuse without conditions) https://www.cylaw.org/KDP/data/2024_1_190.pdf prohibits ⚠️, Droneavisa disagrees
🇨🇿 CZ Czechia RESTRICTION https://aim.rlp.cz/?lang=en&p=terms-of-use prohibits ✅, reasoning to be clarified
🇩🇰 DK Denmark LICENCE https://trafikstyrelsen.maps.arcgis.com/sharing/rest/content/items/980697acd04d4a9bb1fd34bbefab924a licence ✅
🇪🇪 EE Estonia CONTRADICTION (law: reuse without conditions · AIP and EANS app: prohibit) http://eaip.eans.ee/2026-08-06/html/eAIP/EE-GEN-0.1-en-GB.html prohibits, wrong source ❌
🇫🇮 FI Finland DECLARED PURPOSE + written permission https://www.traficom.fi/fi/miehittamaton-ilmailu/uas-ilmatilavyohykkeet-koneluettavassa-muodossa in ✅
🇫🇷 FR France LICENCE (IGN layer, not ED-269) · RESTRICTION (SIA ED-269: excluded from the Licence Ouverte) https://www.sia.aviation-civile.gouv.fr/produits-numeriques-en-libre-disposition.html Etalab licence ✅, SIA missing
🇩🇪 DE Germany LICENCE CC BY-ND 4.0 https://www.dipul.de/homepage/de/informationen/geografische-gebiete/download/ CC BY-ND ✅
🇬🇷 GR Greece NO PUBLIC FILE https://dagr.hasp.gov.gr/ not classified
🇭🇺 HU Hungary NO PUBLIC FILE https://ais-en.hungarocontrol.hu/uas-airspace-restrictions no file ✅
🇮🇪 IE Ireland DECLARED PUBLIC by official act, no conditions https://www.iaa.ie/docs/default-source/publications/aeronautical-notices/u---unmanned-aircraft/direction-on-uas-geo-zones---u-04-issue-30.19.pdf?sfvrsn=4f717b07_191 “silent” ⚠️
🇮🇹 IT Italy RESTRICTION (file behind login) https://www.d-flight.it/new_portal/condizioni-generali/ prohibits ✅
🇱🇻 LV Latvia RESTRICTION (MK 248/2024 p. 45-46: commercial use only by agreement, possibly for a fee) https://likumi.lv/ta/id/351478-bezpilota-gaisa-kugu-lidojumu-noteikumi not classified
🇱🇹 LT Lithuania RESTRICTION https://utm.ans.lt/avm/i18n (TERMS key) not classified
🇱🇺 LU Luxembourg LICENCE CC0 https://data.public.lu/fr/datasets/uas-geographical-zones-grand-duchy-of-luxembourg-zones-geographiques-uas-grand-duche-de-luxembourg/ in ✅, now with evidence
🇲🇹 MT Malta RESTRICTION (official map without a file; terms: own use only) https://tmcad.idronect.com/terms-of-use not classified
🇳🇱 NL Netherlands DECLARED PUBLIC in the AIP (ENR 5.3 para. 1.5), ED-269 file frozen at 22/07/2024 eAIP ENR 5.3 (https://eaip.lvnl.nl/web/eaip/AIRAC%20AMDT%2009-2026_2026_09_03/index.html) “no file” ❌
🇵🇱 PL Poland RESTRICTION (by law, geometries beyond name, area and validity are not public information: contract and payment) https://isap.sejm.gov.pl/isap.nsf/download.xsp/WDU20250001431/O/D20251431.pdf “no file” ❌
🇵🇹 PT Portugal DECLARED PURPOSE https://www.anac.pt/vPT/Generico/drones/zona_proibidas_condicionadas/Paginas/Zonasproibidasoucondicionadas.aspx prohibits ❌
🇷🇴 RO Romania DECLARED PURPOSE (aeronautical users only) https://flightplan.romatsa.ro/init/default/disclaimer “open” ❌
🇸🇰 SK Slovakia DECLARED PUBLIC in the AIP and by law (KML, not ED-269) https://aim.lps.sk/web/eAIP_SR/AIP_SR_EFF_03SEP2026/html/LZ-ENR-5.3-en-SK.html not classified
🇸🇮 SI Slovenia RESTRICTION (the official map prohibits commercial use) https://caa-slovenia.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=25ba69037c264c5faa5381174f76f861 not classified
🇪🇸 ES Spain RESTRICTION https://aip.enaire.es/recursos/descargas/ZGUAS/servAIS_APIDOC.pdfhttps://www.enaire.es/aviso_legal prohibits ✅, now with evidence
🇸🇪 SE Sweden LICENCE CC BY 4.0 https://daim.lfv.se/echarts/dronechart/API/ CC BY-NC-ND ❌
🇨🇭 CH Switzerland LICENCE Opendata BY https://www.geocat.ch/geonetwork/srv/api/records/c3ebd7ba-0fd5-411a-9074-3d0cdc46bc4d/formatters/xml in ✅
🇳🇴 NO Norway LICENCE NLOD 2.0 https://dronesoner.no/lisensvilkaar.html “no licence” ❌
🇮🇸 IS Iceland SILENCE (public file via the official app's WFS, no conditions or licence) https://kort.gis.is/mapview/?app=dronar not classified
🇱🇮 LI Liechtenstein LICENCE Opendata BY (inside the Swiss file) https://www.geocat.ch/geonetwork/srv/api/records/c3ebd7ba-0fd5-411a-9074-3d0cdc46bc4d/formatters/xml in with CH ✅
🇬🇧 GB United Kingdom RESTRICTION («Not for resale», «For aviation use only») https://nats-uk.ead-it.com/cms-nats/opencms/en/Publications/digital-datasets/index.html (metadata inside the zip) imported without reservations ❌

Still being checked

Some countries stay out because a decisive document cannot be read, or because we are waiting for the authority's written reply:

  • Lithuania: section ENR 5.3 of the AIP, which the authority names as the place that says where and how the data is public, cannot be read from outside.
  • Malta: the Transport Malta pages on the zones cannot be read from outside.
  • Croatia: the AIP is behind a registration.
  • Cyprus, Estonia and the other authorities we have written to: we are waiting for a written reply.

As soon as we have the text, the country's row changes, and we say so.

Country by country

PT — Portugal

AT — Austria

BE — Belgium

BG — Bulgaria

HR — Croatia

CY — Cyprus

CZ — Czechia

DK — Denmark

EE — Estonia

FI — Finland

FR — France

DE — Germany

GR — Greece

HU — Hungary

IE — Ireland

IT — Italy

LV — Latvia

LT — Lithuania

  • Class: RESTRICTION
  • Data page: https://utm.ans.lt/avm/ (the institutional pages https://ltsa.lrv.lt/… and https://ans.lt/en/services/unmanned-aerial-vehicles-drones answer 403 Cloudflare)
  • File: https://utm.ans.lt/avm/utm/uas.geojson (328 zones)
  • Condition: «Commercial use of provided data is strictly prohibited.» — https://utm.ans.lt/avm/i18n (TERMS key)
  • AIP and acts (23/09/2026): eAIP https://www.ans.lt/a1/aip/ NOT REACHABLE (Cloudflare, also from an automated browser and on Wayback). LTSA order 2BE-131 of 26/05/2023, p. 53: «Informacija apie tai, kur ir kaip duomenys apie geografines zonas yra viešai prieinami bendrame unikaliame skaitmeniniame formate, skelbiama AIP ENR 5.3.1 skirsnyje» — https://e-seimas.lrs.lt/rs/legalact/TAD/b8b77522fbfa11edbc0bd16e3a4d3b97/
  • Official LTSA page (read in a browser, 23/09/2026; from a script it answers with an anti-bot block): https://ltsa.lrv.lt/lt/veiklos-sritys/oro-transportas-1/bepilociai-orlaiviai/uas-geografines-zonos/ — «Nuo 2023 m. birželio 1 d. Lietuvos transporto saugos administracija (Administracija) yra atsakinga už bepiločių orlaivių sistemų (UAS) geografinių zonų nustatymą.» It describes the four types of zone and the procedure to request one; it refers to the decisions («Sprendimai»). Nothing on digital publication, recipients or use of the data. Updated on 2023-12-04. Copy: screenshot.
  • AIP amendment AMDT 04/26 (in force 29/10/2026): https://www.ans.lt/a1/aip/EY-amdt_04_26.pdf — downloaded in a browser (403 Cloudflare from here), 302 pages. It contains only the amended pages: ENR 5.3 is not there (in the list of pages in force ENR 5.3-1 is dated 07 AUG 2025). GEN 1.2 para. 1.7: «Unmanned aircraft flights in the geographical zones for unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) established by LTSA, operations shall be conducted in accordance with the conditions and procedures set out in Regulation (EU) 2019/947, Regulation (EU) 2021/664, and as determined by LTSA.» Every page carries «©2012 ORO NAVIGACIJA». Nothing on publication or use of the file. The ENR 5.3.1 section in force remains to be read.
  • Round 3 (23/09/2026): text of the «Tvarkos aprašas» (draft, «Projektas», downloaded in a browser; the text in force is order 2BE-131): p. 55 «Geografinių zonų duomenis skelbia vienintelis bendrų informacijos paslaugų teikėjas.» and p. 57 «Informacija apie tai, kur ir kaip duomenys apie geografines zonas yra viešai prieinami bendrame unikaliame skaitmeniniame formate, skelbiama AIP ENR 5.3.1 skirsnyje». No reuse conditions in the act. UTM terms in Lithuanian: «Komercinis duomenų naudojimas yra draudžiamas.» — https://utm.ans.lt/avm/i18n · the file has 343 zones today.

LU — Luxembourg

MT — Malta

  • Class: NOT REACHABLE
  • Page: https://www.transport.gov.mt/aviation/drones/geographical-zones-5487 → HTTP 403 Cloudflare «Sorry, you have been blocked». Map https://tmcad.idronect.com without a file.
  • AIP (23/09/2026): AIP in force 403; in the AIP of 11/07/2024 (Wayback) no mention of the zones; the AIP is for sale («AIP Malta, including CD-ROM €125.00»). Act on the zones not found.
  • Official map (23/09/2026): https://tmcad.idronect.com/map (iDronect platform by Aviatize BV, Transport Malta's «tmcad» subdomain). The map opens without an account and receives from the server, without login, 188 zones (name, maximum height, prohibition) through its internal data channel; many carry in their name the contact of the body to call. There is no file to download and no ED-269 format. Terms of use of the platform («The Malta Drone Management System»), read on 23/09/2026: the user undertakes not to «use the Tool and/or Services for any other purpose than your own civil-end purposes» and not to «market, sell, license or otherwise deliver the Tool to any third party or allow the Tool to be used by any third party» — https://tmcad.idronect.com/terms-of-use (the «EULA» tab shows the same text). Serving those zones to our users is not own use: RESTRICTION. The same EULA appears at login (checked with an account, 23/09/2026); the reserved area asks for Maltese registration documents, so we go no further than the public map. No Maltese act we have read declares the data public.

NL — Netherlands

  • Class: NO PUBLIC FILE
  • Page: https://map.godrone.nl · PDOK https://service.pdok.nl/lvnl/drone-no-flyzones/wfs/v1_0 → 404
  • Condition: «You may not download, copy or redistribute any of the data from Our Sites or Apps» — https://static-map.godrone.nl/sitebranding/styles/lvnl/files/TermsAndConditions_en.htm
  • AIP and acts (23/09/2026): eAIP https://eaip.lvnl.nl/web/eaip/default.html 403; in ENR 5.1 of 21/08/2025 (Wayback) no art. 15 zones. Regeling zonering onbemande luchtvaartuigen — https://wetten.overheid.nl/BWBR0044597/2026-01-01
  • AIRAC AMDT 09/2026 (in force 03/09/2026), downloaded in a browser (403 from here): it contains only the amended pages (GEN 0.2, 0.4, 1.2, ENR 2.1, 2.2, 5.4, 5.5, AD). «UAS» appears only in ENR 5.5 as an activity of the model-flying areas (e.g. «UDDEL (EHAAUAV080) … UAS»). No sentence on the UAS geographical zones or their file; every page carries «© LVNL». ENR 5.3 and GEN 0.1 in force remain to be read.
  • 🔴 Complete AIP (23/09/2026), read in a browser: ENR 5.3 para. 1.5: «The information on the UAS geographical zones in the Amsterdam FIR, including their period of validity, is publicly available as a digital data set in JSON format […]. The effective UAS geographical zone data set is available for direct download via the URL: https://www.nieuwsienw.nl/api/documents/downloadfile?sectionid=178144&fileid=1650029&forcedownload=true.» The file today: «Alle statische zonering en andere gebieden in ED269 format - 22juli2024.JSON», 774 zones, UASZoneVersion 2024-07-22, no conditions inside; the site hosting it (Nieuws IenW, ministry) has no reuse terms. GEN 0.1 para. 5 («The complete Integrated Aeronautical Information Package is the property of LVNL. No part of these publications may be reproduced […] without written permission from LVNL.») applies to the AIP, not to the file. DECLARED PUBLIC in the AIP, but the file indicated is frozen at 22/07/2024.
  • Round 3 (23/09/2026): the updated file is offered by the ministry: «Deze geografische zones zijn ook te downloaden via een ISON-bestand.» — https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/vraag-en-antwoord/drone/waar-mag-ik-vliegen-met-een-dronehttps://www.nieuwsienw.nl/api/documents/downloadfile?sectionid=178144&fileid=1841851&forcedownload=true («UASZoneVersion 2025-12-17», 743 zones, ED-269, no conditions in the file). Texts of the rijksoverheid site under CC0 (https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/copyright). The GoDrone terms prohibit downloading from their apps, not from here.
  • LVNL download page (read in a browser, 23/09/2026; from a script it answers with an anti-bot block): https://www.lvnl.nl/diensten/aip/downloads — «By downloading the files below you agree with the terms and conditions of LVNL.» It offers only the AIP zips (AMDT 09, 10, 11-2026) and the ICAO 1:500 000 chart; no UAS zone file. The condition applies to those AIP products, not to the ministry's file. Class unchanged.

PL — Poland

RO — Romania

SK — Slovakia

SI — Slovenia

ES — Spain

SE — Sweden

CH — Switzerland

NO — Norway

IS — Iceland

LI — Liechtenstein

GB — United Kingdom

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