EN 17206-3:2026

Entertainment technology - Machinery for stages and other production areas - Part 3: Safety requirements and inspections for unmanned aircraft systems (UAS/Drones) EN 17206-3:2026

Publication date:   Jul 12, 2026

Scope

This document is applicable to UAS and groups of UAS used in staging and production facilities for events and theatrical productions (entertainment industry). Such facilities include: theatres, multi-purpose halls, exhibition halls; film, television and radio studios; concert halls, schools, bars, discotheques, open-air stages and other rooms for shows and events.
This document is applicable to all UAS used in the entertainment industry, indoors and outdoors. This document includes UAS that are excluded from the Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/1058 and (EU) 2019/945 specifically Article 2, 4 which excludes “UAS intended to be exclusively operated indoors”.
This document deals with all significant hazards, hazardous situations or hazardous events relevant to UAS, when they are used as intended and under conditions of misuse which are reasonably foreseeable by the manufacturer.
The document specifies the additional hazards and safety requirements for UAS categorized under the “open” category, the “specific” category, and the “certified” category, in particular, those that occur from the specific characteristics of the payload and the environment in the entertainment industry.
The principles in this document are also applicable to UAS based on new technologies or specially designed UAS which are not expressly mentioned here but which nevertheless operate in a similar manner or are meant for similar purposes to the equipment listed above.

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