The Civil Aviation (Route Charges for Navigation Services) (Amendment) Regulations 1995

Statutory Instruments

1995 No. 1004

CIVIL AVIATION

The Civil Aviation (Route Charges for Navigation Services) (Amendment) Regulations 1995

Made

5th April 1995

Laid before Parliament

6th April 1995

Coming into force

1st May 1995

Whereas in pursuance of tariffs approved under the Eurocontrol Convention(1) and under the Multilateral Agreement relating to Route Charges concluded at Brussels on 12th February 1981(1) (being international agreements to which the United Kingdom is a party), the Secretary of State for Transport has determined rates of charges, as specified in the following Regulations, payable to Eurocontrol in respect of navigation services provided for aircraft:

Now, therefore, the Secretary of State for Transport in exercise of his powers under section 73(1)(a), (1A)(a), and (6) of the Civil Aviation Act 1982(2) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Civil Aviation (Route Charges for Navigation Services) (Amendment) Regulations 1995 and shall come into force on 1st May 1995.

2.  The Civil Aviation (Route Charges for Navigation Services) Regulations 1994(3) shall be amended as follows:

(a) For regulation 9(vii) there shall be substituted the following regulation—

“(vii) flights made exclusively for the purpose of the instruction or testing of flight crew within the specified airspace of the United Kingdom;”

(b) For Schedule 2 thereof there shall be substituted—

Regulations 3(1), 6(1) and 7

“SCHEDULE 2 SPECIFIED AIRSPACES

(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)
Country	Publication in which FIRS are described	Unite Rate in ECUs	Established at a Rate of exchange of
* Excluding Shanwick FIR”
Austria	AIP Austria	67.12	1 ECU=13.4948 Sch
Belgium	AIP Belgique	72.78	1 ECU=39.5323 BF
Cyprus	AIP Cyprus	24.63	1 ECU=0.585537 £ Cy
Denmark	AIP Denmark	55.10	1 ECU=7.53595 Kr
France	AIP France (France Metropolitaine)	66.17	1 ECU=6.57349 FF
Germany	AIP Germany	79.84	1 ECU=1.91818 DM
Greece	AIP Greece	17.21	1 ECU=289.751 Dra
Hungary	AIP Hungary	18.87	1 ECU=122.810 Hf
Ireland Republic of	AIP Ireland	27.95	1 ECU=0.800096 £ Ir
Malta	AIP Malta	37.21	1 ECU=0.455484 Lm
Netherlands	AIP Netherlands	50.66	1 ECU=2.15151 G
Norway	AIP Norway	54.16	1 ECU=8.38725 KR
Portugal	AIP Portugal	40.21 Santa Maria FIRS-14.28	1 ECU=197.036 ESC
Slovenia	AIP Slovenia	69.18	1 ECU=152.185 SIT
Spain	AIP Espana	Madrid & Barcelona FIRS-47.13 Canaries FIRS-50.23	1 ECU=158.232 Pts
Switzerland	AIP Switzerland	83.63	1 ECU=1.61858 SF
Turkey	AIP Turkey	33.55	1 ECU=37876.5 LT
United Kingdom	United Kingdom Air Pilot*	76.68	1 ECU=£0.790531

(c) For Schedule 3 thereof there shall be substituted—

Regulation 7

“SCHEDULE 3

(1)	(2)	(3)
Aerodromes of departure (or of first destination) situated	Aerodromes of first destination (or of departure)	Amount of the charge in ECUs
ZONE I
—between W01400 and W11000 and North of N5500 with the exception of Iceland	Copenhagen	535.30
	Frankfurt	1178.73
	London	751.33
	Paris	1014.39
	Prestwick	393.37
ZONE II
—between W04000 and W11000 and N2800 and N5500	Abidjan	184.93
	Amman	1703.18
	Amsterdam	735.82
	Athens	1168.05
	Banjul	179.21
	Barcelona	758.86
	Basle	938.99
	Belfast	179.10
	Berlin	1017.70
	Birmingham	430.04
	Bordeaux	544.37
	Bristol	434.22
	Brussels	759.53
	Bucharest	1623.16
	Budapest	1422.81
	Cairo	1139.59
	Cardiff	311.37
	Casablanca	397.71
	Cologne-Bonn	891.52
	Copenhagen	711.80
	Dakar	179.07
	Dublin	146.87
	Düsseldorf	881.05
	East Midlands	473.54
	Frankfurt	994.22
	Geneva	906.51
	Glasgow	257.47
	Hamburg	898.01
	Helsinki	536.45
	Istanbul	1594.27
	Jeddah	1168.38
	Johannesburg	179.50
	Kiev	949.32
	Lagos	180.07
—between W04000 and W11000 and N2800 and N5500	Las Palmas (Canary Islands)	539.92
	Leeds and Bradford	423.70
	Lille	670.13
	Lisbon	434.74
	London	515.68
	Luxembourg	880.75
	Lyons	799.69
	Maastricht	815.39
	Madrid	569.06
	Malaga	666.34
	Manchester	391.57
	Manston	582.12
	Marseille	956.92
	Milan	1003.99
	Monrovia	179.21
	Moscow	504.73
	Munich	1205.64
	Nantes	447.43
	Naples	1049.02
	Newcastle	405.96
	Nice	1022.56
	Oporto	309.87
	Oslo	490.32
	Ostend	650.66
	Paris	694.01
	Ponta Delgada (Azores)	185.93
	Prague	1188.44
	Prestwick	257.47
	Riyadh	1546.65
	Rome	1150.08
	Sal Island (Cape Verde)	179.07
	Santa Maria (Azores)	198.92
	Santiago	263.23
	Shannon	106.21
	Sofia	1504.66
	Stockholm	430.75
	Stuttgart	1049.87
	Tel-Aviv	1493.75
	Tenerife	498.71
	Timisoara	1623.16
	Toulouse-Blagnac	696.09
	Turin	1041.93
	Vienna	1422.37
	Warsaw	861.62
	Zürich	1033.58
ZONE III
—West of W11000 and between N2800 and N5500	Amsterdam	842.89
	Copenhagen	613.94
	Düsseldorf	939.71
	Frankfurt	1000.29
	Geneva	1197.53
	Glasgow	351.19
	London	707.94
	Luxembourg	1046.14
	Madrid	428.17
	Manchester	558.73
	Milan	1027.24
	Munich	1407.48
	Paris	844.13
	Prestwick	351.19
	Rome	1027.24
	Shannon	101.18
	Zürich	1272.50
ZONE IV
—West of W04000 and between N2000 and N2800 (including Mexico)	Amsterdam	761.24
	Barcelona	910.98
	Berlin	933.03
	Brussels	774.04
	Cologne-Bonn	856.40
	Düsseldorf	934.17
	Frankfurt	1003.64
	Hamburg	939.00
	Helsinki	532.11
	Las Palmas (Canary Islands)	634.20
	Lisbon	508.57
	London	553.26
	Madrid	628.93
	Manchester	381.19
	Milan	963.73
	Munich	1204.99
	Paris	691.79
	Prague	1196.13
	Rome	1126.11
	Sal Island (Cape Verde)	116.95
	Santa Maria (Azores)	200.06
	Santiago	486.88
	Shannon	207.79
	Vienna	1399.81
	Zürich	1028.01
ZONE V
—West of W04000 and between the Equator and N2000-West of W0400 and between the Equator and N2000	Amsterdam	980.05
	Barcelona	944.22
	Bordeaux	785.02
	Brussels	888.50
	Cologne-Bonn	1122.67
	Düsseldorf	1012.43
	Frankfurt	1142.04
	Glasgow	410.08
	Hamburg	1067.79
	Helsinki	936.43
	Las Palmas (Canary Islands)	648.15
	Lisbon	603.34
	London	794.31
	Lyons	1048.37
	Madrid	766.73
	Manchester	553.88
	Marseilles	1191.68
	Milan	1161.26
	Munich	1266.59
	Nantes	755.23
	Oporto	586.82
	Paris	902.06
	Porto Santo (Madeira)	388.51
	Prestwick	410.08
	Rome	1305.55
	Santa Maria (Azores)	251.75
	Santiago	590.89
	Shannon	328.64
	Tenerife	643.13
	Toulouse-Blagnac	1015.45
	Vienna	1285.79
	Zürich	1247.78”

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

Goschen

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

Department of Transport

5th April 1995

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Civil Aviation (Route Charges for Navigation Services) Regulations 1994 as follows:

The exemption from the Regulations for flights made exclusively for the purpose of the instruction or testing of flight crew is restricted to such flights made within the specified airspace of the United Kingdom (regulation 2(a)).

The unit rate in ECUs set out in Schedule 2 of the principal Regulations is reduced in the case of Austria by 3.8% and in the case of the United Kingdom by 5.8%. The unit rate in the case of Turkey is increased by 7.2% (regulation 2(b)).

In consequence of the adjustment to the unit rates of Austria, Turkey and the United Kingdom new transatlantic charges are introduced (regulation 2(c)).

The unit rates in ECUs set out in regulation 2(b) and the amount of the charges in ECUs set out in regulation 2(c) (for transatlantic flights) are calculated by reference to the costs of provision of en-route navigation services in the participating countries in the Eurocontrol charges system, the amount of traffic using each country’s airspace and the relationship of each country’s currency to the ECU over a period agreed by Ministers of the participating countries. The interaction of these elements varies in each country. In calculating the revised charges the average of the exchange rates between the ECU and the currencies of the participating countries obtaining in the month of July 1994 have been used.

(1)

Cmnd. 8662.

(2)

1982 c. 16; section 73(1A) was added by section 1 of the Civil Aviation (Air Navigation Charges) Act 1989 (c. 9); “prescribed” is defined in section 105(1).

(3)

S.I. 1994/3071.