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This document specifies the requirements for vertiport operations (e.g. removal of contaminants; noise), and interface with UAS or VTOL operators and with UAS traffic management (UTM) service providers (SPs). Vertiport operations relate to landing, ground movement, parking and subsequent take-off and departure of vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft, electrically powered or equipped with other propulsion systems. Vertiport operations comprise also cargo and passenger ground handling and aircraft servicing (e.g. power supply), including energy replenishment (e.g. battery recharging or refueling). The vertiports may be open to international or domestic public use or for private use. The vertiports may be certified or licensed by the competent authority, based on applicable legislation. Vertiports may be distinguished in class A (logistics vertiports) and B (vertiports for Urban Air Mobility (UAM) of passengers), both serving aircraft capable of vertical take-off and landing, including electrically powered, with a maximum take-off mass respectively up to 150 kg or 3175 kg (i.e. 7000 lbs.). Larger vertiports in Class C are essentially heliports designed primarily to serve large rotorcraft equipped with internal combustion engines. This document applies only to additional specific provisions to serve electrically powered manned or unmanned VTOL at these larger vertiports.