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Old 17th December 2004 | 08:52
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1.2 Cumulative Duty Hours
An operator shall ensure that the total duty periods to which a crew member is assigned do not exceed:
a) 190 duty hours in any 28 consecutive days,
b) 60 duty hours in any 7 consecutive days;

1.5 Duty period
A period which starts when a crew member is required by an operator to report for a duty and ends when the crew member is free from all duties;

1.6 Flight Duty Period
A Flight Duty Period (FDP) is any time during which a person operates in an aircraft as a member of its crew. The FDP starts when the crew member is required by an operator to report for a flight or a series of flights; it finishes at the end of the last flight on which he/she is an operating crew member or other time as specified by the responsible Civil Aviation Authority;

C. FLIGHT AND DUTY LIMITATIONS
1.1 Cumulative Limits on Flying Hours
An operator shall ensure that the total block times of the flights on which an individual crew member is assigned as an operating crew member does not exceed 900 block hours in a calendar year spread as evenly as practicable throughout the year;

So it appears that the referenced version at least has no weekly or monthly Flight Duty Period limits, only a 900 hour yearly limit (hopefully spread equally throughout the year), and a 190 hr Duty (Not FDP) limit per 28 days - all a bit goofy and reinforces that it was apparently all laid out by "amateurs" utilizing the standard EU consultative process (IE NONE - typical EU government by diktat).
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