The draft Executive Order contains supplementary and further provisions on the formal and operational rules governing the operation of unmanned aircraft (drones) in Danish airspace, in addition to those laid down in Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/947 of 24 May 2019 on the rules and procedures for the operation of unmanned aircraft. The draft Executive Order also lays down technical requirements for the use of drones in Danish airspace, supplementing those laid down in Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/945 of 12 March 2019 on unmanned aircraft systems and on third-country operators of unmanned aircraft systems. The draft Order on drones introduces a technical requirement that all drones weighing above 250 g must be operated with direct remote identification (also known as ‘remote ID’) throughout all of Denmark, and that drones weighing less than 250 g must be operated with direct remote identification in aviation-safety-critical and aviation-security-critical drone zones. The requirement will apply to civil aviation and to aircraft carrying out activities or services under the control and responsibility of a Member State, undertaken in the public interest by or on behalf of a body vested with the powers of a public authority, as well as to the personnel and organisations involved in those activities and services. Military aviation is excluded. Remote identification is already an applicable EU product requirement for certain drones, but not for all…