Here we go.
I used online translators to come up with the text bellow.
Be kind, it's not perfect English (far from that) however you gan get a pretty good idea of the National legislation that applied to Portuguese flight dispatchers and their licencing.
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Part I
D. R. Nº 22 SERIES II , P 1319 the 1322 of Monday 27 of January of 2003
SENDER: Ministry of the Public works, Transports and Habitation - National Institute of Civil Aviation
DIPLOMA/ACTO: Nº4/2003 regulation
SUMMARY :
Norms for officers of operations of voo (OOV) .
TEXT:
Nº4/2003 regulation , of 27 of January
Regulation n.º 4/2003. - Norms for officers of operations of voo (OOV). - In accordance with annex 6 to the Convention on International Civil Aviation (Convention of Chicago), relative to the operation of aircraft, the operators certifyd for commercial air transportation will have to possess, in its organic and functional structure, an area of forwarding and responsible operational control for the fulfilment of the operational requirements and of security in the totality of the operation. This area will have to be directed by officers of operations of voo duly permitted for the exercise of the respective functions. In accordance with the same attached and doc. n.º 9376 of the ICAO, "Preparation of a manual of operations", the operator will have to possess a manual of operations of voo (MOV) that it contains the methods of planning and supervision of voos that assure the fulfilment of the operational requirements and security behind related and that it assures the staff existence authorized technician for the national aeronautical authority for the exercise of the functions of officer of operations of voo. The present regulation establishes the basic rules for application of these orientações. On the other hand, one shows convenient to include in the text of the present regulation relative norms to the conditions of emission, revalidation and renewal of the licenses of officers of operations of voo, which will have to pass to be applied in substitution of published in the paragraph 4,5 of the "Norms and procedures of licensing", published as attached to Circulating of Aeronautical Information n.º 14/90, of 16 of November of 1990.
Thus:
In the terms of n.os 2 and 3 of the article 8.º of the Decree n.º 133/98, of 15 of May, modified for the Decree n.º 145/2002, of 21 of May, the advice of administration of the INAC, for deliberation of 23 of December of 2002, approved the following regulation:
CHAPTER I
Relative norms to the function of the officers of operations of voo
Article 1.º
Forwarding and operational control
1 - The operators detainers of a certificate of aerial operator (COA) must assure that none voo either initiated without that the operational information for the conduction of the voos in security have been duly analyzed all pertinent, having to be elaborated and to be presented an operational analysis (briefing) that it must be dispatched for the responsible pilot for voo.
2 - The operators must still assure, all the moment, the monitoring of the voos in the totality of the areas of its operation, through methods of operational control, with capacity to establish effective communication with any aircraft, in the eventuality of being necessary to supply to the pilot excellent information the conduction in security of voo.
3 - In the case of small operators, the foreseen operational forwarding and control in the previous numbers can be efectuados by pilots.
4 - Small operators are considered, for the ends of the previous number, those that, cumulatively:
) They possess an equal or inferior fleet the three aircraft, whose certifyd of navigability alone it allows a maximum number of 19 passengers or that they have a maximum mass to the taking off (the 10 MMD) inferior t;
b) is not detainers of any special authorization of operation;
c) they do not efectuem voos intercontinental.
5 - In the remaining cases, the operational forwarding and the control must be efectuados by officers of operations of voo duly permitted to attend the pilots in the exercise of these functions.
6 - The operator can contract the services of forwarding and operational control of another entity with staff permitted for the effect.
7 - In the case foreseen in the previous number, the operational responsibility remains with the operator, having this to establish a method of quality control of the contracted entity.
Article 2.º
Manual of operations of voo
1 - The manual of operations of voo (MOV) of the operator must contain the description of its organic and functional structure, of form to guarantee the fulfilment of the foreseen one in the previous article.
2 - The manual of operations of voo must still contain the specification of the functions, duties and responsibilities attributed to responsible for the operational forwarding and the control, in accordance with the annex To the this regulation.
Article 3.º
Officers of operations of voo
1 - An officer of operations of voo only can exert functions will be itself titular of valid license, exceptuando the period of period of training.
2 - The conditions of maintenance of the validity of the license and the form as the operator assure this maintenance must be explicitadas in the manual of operations of voo.
CHAPTER II
Licensing
Article 4.º
Requirements for the emission of licenses of officers of operations of voo
1 - The candidate the license of officer of operations of voo has to fill the following requirements:
) To have completed 21 years of age to the date of emission of the license;
b) To have completed 12.º year of escolaridade in area that includes you discipline them of Mathematics and Physics or to demonstrate to knowledge of mathematics and physics by means of approval in examinations to carry through for the INAC, having, in this last case, to have completed, at least, the obligator minimum escolaridade;
c) To demonstrate knowledge of the English language by means of approval in examination efectuado in the INAC or authorized entity for the INAC for the effect, or by means of the accomplishment of the related theoretical tests in alínea d) in English language;
d) To demonstrate theoretical knowledge on the aerial legislation, common knowledges of aircraft, calculation of the performance and procedures of planning of voo, meteorology, air travel, operational procedures, principles of voo and radiotelefónicas communications, by means of approval in written tests to carry through for the INAC;
e) To possess the demanded experience or formation, in the terms of n.º 3 of this article;
f) To have completed, with exploitation, in the six immediately previous months to the order of emission of the license, the period of training the one that if relates to the article 5.º of the present regulation;
g) To demonstrate to proficiency adjusted for the exercise of the prerogatives the one that if candidate.
2 - The knowledge of English language the one that if relates alínea c) are guided for the preparation of the voos, nominated in that if it relates to the consultation of manuals technician, to the interpretation of the international legislation and to the fraseologia used in radio communications.
3 - The candidate the license of officer of operations of voo must possess acquired experience or professional formation in the terms of one of the following alíneas:
) To have given to a total of two years of service, playing a only one or combination of two, being the experience in each one of them of at least one year, the following activities:
i) Pilot, technician of voo or navigator in air transportation;
ii) Meteorologista in an organization of operational forwarding of aircraft in air transportation;
iii) Controlling of air traffic or supervisor technician of officers of operations of voo or systems of operations of voo of air transportation;
b) To have given one year of service as assistant in the forwarding of air transportation;
c) To have completed with exploitation a course of formation homologated for the INAC and given by an entity of authorized formation for the INAC, with a program organized in the terms of doc. 7192-na/857, D-3 part, of the ICAO.
Article 5.º
Period of training
1 - The candidate the officer of operations of voo will have to carry through a period of training with the duration of at least 90 working days, under the supervision of an officer of operations of voo duly permitted and with qualification of monitor, during which efectue a minimum of 120 operational forwardings in voos of air transportation.
2 - The responsible entity for the period of training must emit a declaration of finishing of exactly, when the candidate congregates all the demanded requirements.
3 - The period of training will only be initiated after the candidate to have surpassed the theoretical tests and of English language the one that if relate alíneas c) and d) of n.º 1 of the previous article.
Article 6.º
Demonstration of proficiency
1 - The demonstration of proficiency the one that if relates the alínea g) of n.º 1 of the previous article will be made before an authorized examiner for the INAC, having the candidate to proceed:
) To the manual elaboration, or with resource the half informáticos, of a plan of voo inside of the operational limits of the aircraft and the airports of origin and destination, on the basis of the specific manual analysis;
b) To the determination, from the analysis of "notes", meteorological letters and forecasts and restrictions of air traffic, the excellent trajectory of voo for determined chunk, in terms of consumption, time of voo and meteorological conditions in all the passage;
c) To the effective monitorização of one voo, with particular incidence for the operations special, supplying actualizada information to the crews of any alterations to the initial planning.
2 - The demonstration of proficiency will include, as evaluation element, the verification of the specific knowledge of English language that allow the meeting of the necessary information to the accomplishment of voo.
3 - The order of accomplishment of the demonstration of proficiency must be efectuado by the proper one or its representative, under the form of petition (mod. n.º 20/DPA) in the Direcção de Aeronautical Pessoal of the INAC, folloied of declaration of finishing of the period of training foreseen in n.º 2 of the article 5.º
4 - With the presentation of the petition, the petitioner will have to proceed to the payment of the taxes due in the terms of the law.
Article 7.º
Petition of accomplishment of tests
1 - The order of accomplishment of the theoretical tests and English foreseen in alíneas c) and d) of n.º 1 of the article 4.º, must be efectuado by the proper one or its representative, in the Direcção de Aeronautical Pessoal of the INAC, under the form of petition (mod. n.º 20/DPA), folloied of comprovativos documents of the académicas qualifications and the fulfilling of the requirement demanded for alínea e) of n.º 1 of the article 4.º