The Civil Aviation (Route Charges for Navigation Services) (Amendment) Regulations 1996

Statutory Instruments

1996 No. 1495

CIVIL AVIATION

The Civil Aviation (Route Charges for Navigation Services) (Amendment) Regulations 1996

Made

10th June 1996

Laid before Parliament

10th June 1996

Coming into force

1st July 1996

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 the powers conferred by 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 1996 and shall come into force on 1st July 1996.

2.  The Civil Aviation (Route Charges for Navigation Services) Regulations 1995(3) shall be amended as follows:

(a) For regulation 5(2) there shall be substituted the following regulation—

“(2) The equivalent in sterling of the charge may be recovered in any court of competent jurisdiction in 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	Unit Rate in ECUs	Established at a Rate of exchange of
a Excluding Shanwick FIR.”
Austria	AIP Austria	68.17	1 ECU=13.1368 Sch
Belgium	AIP Belgique	78.79	1 ECU=38.4076 BF
Cyprus	AIP Cyprus	18.54	1 ECU=0.591234 £Cy
Czech Republic	AIP Czech Republic	49.36	1 ECU=34.6570 CZK
Denmark	AIP Denmark	56.01	1 ECU=7.27576 Kr
France	AIP France (France Metropolitaine)	64.04	1 ECU=6.49970 FF
Germany	AIP Germany	78.19	1ECU=1.86783 DM
Greece	AIP Greece	16.55	1 ECU=303.116 Dra
Hungary	AIP Hungary	17.82	1 ECU=169.950 Hf
Ireland, Republic of	AIP Ireland	19.76	1 ECU=0.819810 £Ir
Malta	AIP Malta	38.73	1 ECU=0.464952 Lm
Netherlands	AIP Netherlands	60.01	1 ECU=2.09247 G
Norway	AIP Norway	53.53	1 ECU=8.30090 KR
Portugal	AIP Portugal	36.54 Santa Maria FIRS—9.28	1 ECU=196.275 Esc
Slovenia	AIP Slovenia	74.97	1 ECU=152.120 SIT
Spain	AIP Espana	Madrid & Barcelona FIRS—44.39 Canaries FIRS—46.68	1 ECU=161.013 Pts
Switzerland	AIP Switzerland	86.79	1 ECU=1.55475 SF
Turkey	AIP Turkey	32.40	1 ECU=59844.8 LT
United Kingdom	United Kingdom Air Pilota	75.09	1 ECU=£0.843181

(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	533.86
	Frankfurt	1181.35
	London	735.37
	Paris	990.67
	Prestwick	385.21
ZONE II
—between W04000 and W11000 and N2800 and N5500	Abidjan	120.18
	Amsterdam	849.63
	Athens	1098.31
	Bahrain	1642.78
	Banjul	116.46
	Barcelona	680.76
	Basle	875.63
	Belfast	165.04
	Berlin	996.38
	Birmingham	404.45
	Bordeaux	505.81
	Bristol	401.77
	Brussels	822.47
	Bucharest	1582.41
	Budapest	1386.42
	Cairo	1106.06
	Cardiff	258.34
	Casablanca	294.57
	Cologne-Bonn	975.55
	Copenhagen	704.61
	Dakar	116.37
	Dublin	112.40
	Düsseldorf	1015.32
	East Midlands	447.74
	Frankfurt	1092.05
	Geneva	873.91
	Glasgow	248.63
	Hamburg	1014.79
	Helsinki	528.15
	Istanbul	1528.73
	Jeddah	1219.59
	Johannesburg	116.65
	Kiev	971.97
	Lagos	117.02
	Larnaca	1325.94
	Las Palmas (Canary Islands)	418.39
	Leeds and Bradford	398.93
	Lille	624.44
	Lisbon	337.69
	London	471.17
	Luxembourg	857.60
	Lyons	761.60
	Maastricht	785.34
	Madrid	486.33
	Malaga	545.15
	Manchester	365.57
	Manston	533.05
	Marseille	887.46
	Milan	984.95
	Monrovia	116.46
	Moscow	497.57
	Münich	1287.43
	Nantes	438.87
	Naples	980.71
	Newcastle	384.30
	Nice	977.74
	Oporto	248.94
	Oslo	482.03
	Ostend	607.13
	Paris	694.23
	Ponta Delgada (Azores)	120.83
	Prague	1240.68
	Prestwick	248.63
	Riyadh	1492.00
	Rome	1109.90
	Sal Island (Cape Verde)	116.37
	Santa Maria (Azores)	129.27
	Santiago	223.91
	Shannon	75.09
	Sofia	1480.52
	Stockholm	424.86
	Stuttgart	1016.49
	Tel-Aviv	1423.04
	Tenerife	383.05
	Toulouse-Blagnac	659.99
	Turin	996.58
	Venice	1093.90
	Vienna	1484.99
	Warsaw	845.86
	Zürich	1038.38
ZONE III
—West of W11000 and between N2800 and N5500	Amsterdam	836.66
	Copenhagen	610.90
	Cologne-Bonn	971.77
	Düsseldorf	945.77
	Frankfurt	1160.17
	Geneva	1162.06
	Glasgow	343.91
	Helsinki	443.76
	London	687.79
	Luxembourg	1059.68
	Madrid	391.19
	Manchester	545.55
	Milan	990.19
	Moscow	599.00
	Münich	1406.40
	Paris	820.00
	Prestwick	343.91
	Rome	990.19
	Shannon	71.53
	Warsaw	564.83
	Zürich	1248.05
ZONE IV
—West of W04000 and between N2000 and N2800 (including Mexico)	Amsterdam	852.06
	Barcelona	763.00
	Berlin	893.69
	Brussels	722.84
	Cologne—Bonn	901.53
	Düsseldorf	952.19
	Frankfurt	984.25
	Hamburg	915.78
	Helsinki	524.39
	Las Palmas (Canary Islands)	525.85
	Lisbon	382.23
	London	559.67
	Luxembourg	935.56
	Madrid	521.32
	Manchester	331.64
	Milan	882.46
	Münich	1142.10
	Paris	638.26
	Prague	1210.56
	Rome	1042.49
	Sal Island (Cape Verde)	76.00
	Santa Maria (Azores)	130.01
	Santiago	369.59
	Shannon	141.72
	Vienna	1358.60
	Zürich	959.88
ZONE V
—West of W04000 and between the Equator and N2000	Amsterdam	996.46
	Barcelona	789.21
	Basle	1001.20
	Berlin	1264.52
	Bordeaux	654.03
	Brussels	796.57
	Cologne-Bonn	1009.92
	Düsseldorf	1005.12
	Frankfurt	1045.65
	Glasgow	338.00
	Hamburg	1015.73
	Hannover	1041.72
	Helsinki	856.66
	Las Palmas (Canary Islands)	540.25
	Lisbon	453.08
	London	737.56
	Lyons	903.85
	Madrid	612.94
	Manchester	499.21
	Marseilles	1018.19
	Milan	1020.64
	Münich	1163.02
	Nantes	619.37
	Oporto	440.48
	Paris	769.02
	Porto Santo (Madeira)	269.65
	Prestwick	338.00
	Rome	1135.06
	Salzburg	1180.87
	Santa Maria (Azores)	170.10
	Santiago	447.22
	Shannon	220.13
	Stuttgart	979.69
	Tenerife	535.58
	Toulouse-Blagnac	845.34
	Vienna	1222.71
	Zürich	1111.92”

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

Goschen

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

Department of Transport

10th June 1996

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Civil Aviation (Route Charges for Navigation Services) Regulations 1995 (“the Principal Regulations”) as follows:

The saving in regulation 5(2) of the Principal Regulations to the effect that the power to recover the sterling equivalent of a charge in any court of competent jurisdiction in the UK is without prejudice to any existing rule of law relating to the recovery of a debt expressed in ECUs is deleted (regulation 2(a)).

New unit rates and transatlantic charges are introduced to take account of the new apportionment of Eurocontrol costs between the Member States resulting principally from the accession of Italy to the Eurocontrol Convention on 1st July 1996 (regulation 2(b) and (c)).

The unit rates for Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Slovenia, Switzerland and Turkey have decreased on average by 1.6%. The unit rate for Portugal-Santa Maria has decreased by 1.1%. The unit rate for Spain is unchanged. The unit rate for the United Kingdom has decreased by 1%.

The amount of the charges in ECUs set out in Schedule 3 to the Principal Regulations 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 1995 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. 1995/3160.