Council Regulation (EEC) No 95/93Show full title

[F1 Article 14 U.K. Enforcement

1. An air carrier's flight plan may be rejected by the competent Air Traffic Management authorities if the air carrier intends to land or take off at a coordinated airport, during the periods for which it is coordinated, without having a slot allocated by the coordinator.

2. The coordinator shall withdraw the series of slots provisionally allocated to an air carrier in the process of establishing itself and place them in the pool on 31 January for the following summer season or on 31 August for the following winter season if the undertaking does not hold an operating licence or equivalent on that date or if it is not stated by the competent licensing authority that it is likely that an operating licence or equivalent will be issued before the relevant scheduling period commences.

3. The coordinator shall withdraw and place in the pool the series of slots of an air carrier, which it has received following an exchange pursuant to Article 8a(1)(c) if they have not been used as intended.

4. Air carriers that repeatedly and intentionally operate air services at a time significantly different from the allocated slot as part of a series of slots or uses slots in a significantly different way from that indicated at the time of allocation and thereby cause prejudice to airport or air traffic operations shall lose their status as referred to in Article 8(2). The coordinator may decide to withdraw from that air carrier the series of slots in question for the remainder of the scheduling period and place them in the pool after having heard the air carrier concerned and after issuing a single warning.

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6. (a) Without prejudice to Article 10(4), if the [F3 required percentage] usage rate F4 ... cannot be achieved by an air carrier, the coordinator may decide to withdraw from that air carrier the series of slots in question for the remainder of the scheduling period and place them in the pool after having heard the air carrier concerned.

(b) Without prejudice to Article 10(4), if after an allotted time corresponding to [F5 the relevant percentage] of the period of the series validity no slots of that series of slots have been used, the coordinator shall place the series of slots in question in the pool for the remainder of the scheduling period, after having heard the air carrier concerned.]

[F6 (c) For the purposes of subparagraph (b), the relevant percentage is:

• 50 %, in the case of slots with a date falling within the scheduling period from 31 October 2021 until 26 March 2022;

• [F7 30 %, in the case of slots with a date falling within the scheduling period from 27 March 2022 until 29 October 2022;]

• [F8 30 %, in the case of slots with a date falling within the scheduling period from 30 October 2022 until 25 March 2023;]

• 20 %, in any other case.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Substituted by Regulation (EC) No 793/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 April 2004 amending Council Regulation (EEC) No 95/93 on common rules for the allocation of slots at Community airports.

F2 Art. 14(5) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Airports Slot Allocation (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/276), regs. 1, 19; 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F3 Words in Art. 14(6)(a) substituted (30.10.2021) by The Airports Slot Allocation (Alleviation of Usage Requirements) (No. 2) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/1200), regs. 1(1), 2(6)(a)(i)

F4 Words in Art. 14(6)(a) omitted (30.10.2021) by virtue of The Airports Slot Allocation (Alleviation of Usage Requirements) (No. 2) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/1200), regs. 1(1), 2(6)(a)(ii)

F5 Words in Art. 14(6)(b) substituted (30.10.2021) by The Airports Slot Allocation (Alleviation of Usage Requirements) (No. 2) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/1200), regs. 1(1), 2(6)(b)

F6 Art. 14(c) inserted (30.10.2021) by The Airports Slot Allocation (Alleviation of Usage Requirements) (No. 2) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/1200), regs. 1(1), 2(6)(c)

F7 Words in Art. 14(6)(c) inserted (26.3.2022) by The Airports Slot Allocation (Alleviation of Usage Requirements) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/368), regs. 1(1), 2(4)

F8 Words in Art. 14(6)(c) inserted (E.W.S.) (29.10.2022) by The Airports Slot Allocation (Alleviation of Usage Requirements) (No. 3) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1107), regs. 1(1), 2(5)