The Civil Aviation (Route Charges for Navigation Services) (Second Amendment) Regulations 1990

Statutory Instruments

1990 No. 2482

CIVIL AVIATION

The Civil Aviation (Route Charges for Navigation Services) (Second Amendment) Regulations 1990

Made

5th December 1990

Laid before Parliament

11th December 1990

Coming into force

1st January 1991

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 the 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 (b), and (6)(b)(i) 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) (Second Amendment) Regulations 1990 and shall come into force on 1st January 1991.

2.  The Civil Aviation (Route Charges for Navigation Services) Regulations 1989(3) shall be amended as follows:

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

Regulations 3(1), 6 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
† Excluding Shanwick FIR”
Austria	AIP Austria	54.27	1 ECU = 14.5516 Sch
Belgium	AIP Belgique	58.26	1 ECU = 42.5737 BF
Cyprus	AIP Cyprus	17.97	1 ECU = 0.581159 £Cy
France	AIP France (France Metropolitaine)	56.73	1 ECU = 6.93764 FF
Germany	AIP Germany	54.34	1 ECU = 2.06814 DM
Greece	AIP Greece	17.17	1 ECU = 202.535 Dra
Ireland, Republic of	AIP Ireland	25.32	1 ECU = 0.771197 £Ir
Malta	AIP Malta	43.48	1 ECU = 0.401704 Lm
Netherlands	AIP Netherlands	43.67	1 ECU = 2.33019 G
Portugal	AIP Portugal	44.89	1 ECU = 181.655 Esc
		Santa Maria
		FIR 14.13
Spain	AIP Espana	Madrid & Barcelona	1 ECU = 136.813 Pts
		FIRS-50.91
		Canaries
		FIRS-49.52
Switzerland	AIP Switzerland	64.02	1 ECU = 1.75741 SF
Turkey	AIP Turkey	35.27	1 ECU = 3360.74 LT
United Kingdom	United Kingdom Air Pilot†	82.94	1 ECU = £0.698131

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

Regulation 7

“SCHEDULE 3

(1)	(2)	(3)
Aerodromes of departure (or its first destination) situated	Aerodromes of first destination (or of departure)	Amount of the of charge in ECUs
ZONE	1
—between W01400 W11000 and North of N5500 with the exception of Iceland	Frankfurt	1172.71
	London	812.42
	Paris	1063.18
	Prestwick	425.48
ZONE II
— between W04000 and W11000 and N2800 and N5500	Abidjan	182.98
	Amman	1494.11
	Amsterdam	791.88
	Athens	1133.84
	Barcelona	770.91
	Basle	864.61
	Belfast	187.05
	Belgrade	1263.51
	Berlin	984.63
	Birmingham	454.39
	Bordeaux	465.20
	Brussels	793.21
	Budapest	1391.41
	Cairo	1022.41
	Cardiff	338.17
	Casablanca	411.24
	Cologne-Bonn	901.49
	Copenhagen	698.50
	Dakar	186.23
	Dublin	138.58
	Dubrovnik	1207.82
	Dusseldorf	890.69
	Frankfurt	930.61
	Geneva	835.52
	Glasgow	276.23
	Hamburg	607.23
	Helsinki	466.12
	Jeddah	1081.97
	Lagos	178.18
	Lamezia-Terme	884.65
	Las Palmas (Canary Islands)	533.37
	Lille	654.59
	Libson	457.22
	Llubljana	1163.02
	London	540.23
	Luxembourg	859.61
	Lyons	754.67
	Maastricht	810.69
	Madrid	582.38
	Malaga	693.46
	Manchester	412.00
	Milan	976.02
	Monrovia	177.33
	Moscow	500.55
	Munich	1107.80
	Nantes	401.45
	Naples	911.78
	Newcastle	478.92
	Nice	1093.94
	Oporto	328.47
	Oslo	481.05
	Ostend	697.39
	Paris	676.83
	Pisa	836.93
	Ponta Delgada (Azores)	183.97
	Prague	996.91
	Prestwick	276.23
	Riyadh	1418.53
	Rome	989.87
	Sal Island (Cape Verde)	207.00
	Santa Maria (Azores)	196.83
	Santiago	276.88
	Shannon	96.22
	Stockholm	491.46
	Stuttgart	956.87
	Tel-Aviv	1401.09
	Tenerife	492.70
	Toulouse-Blagnac	637.76
	Turin	979.26
	Venice	1104.23
	Vienna	1276.19
	Warsaw	704.17
	Zagreb	1263.51
	Zurich	996.87
ZONE III
West of W11000 and Amsterdam between N2800 and N5500	898.63
	Copenhagen	741.48
	Dusseldorf	964.95
	Geneva	1198.28
	Frankfurt	975.87
	London	762.20
	Luxembourg	1063.14
	Madrid	460.08
	Manchester	603.32
	Milan	959.43
	Paris	868.30
	Prestwick	379.87
	Shannon	91.66
	Zurich	1257.78
ZONE IV
	West of W04000 and between N2000 and N2800 (including Mexico)	Amsterdam	775.43
	Berlin	784.13
	Brussels	769.13
	Cologne-Bonn	876.42
	Copenhagen	754.02
	Dusseldorf	919.50
	Frankfurt	936.10
	Hamburg	961.13
	Helsinki	468.61
	London	590.08
	Madrid	738.45
	Manchester	402.45
	Milan	849.19
	Oslo	474.42
	Paris	625.73
	Prague	1041.69
	Sal Island (Cape Verde)	115.72
	Santa Maria (Azores)	197.96
	Shannon	195.82
	Stockholm	524.50
	Vienna	1195.06
	Zurich	861.36
ZONE V
West of W04000 and between the equator and N2000	Amsterdam	1091.41
	Basle	1129.43
	Bordeaux	886.62
	Dusseldorf	1006.54
	Frankfurt	1084.08
	Las Palmas (Canary Islands)	639.79
	Lisbon	626.91
	London	777.50
	Lyons	1074.24
	Madrid	807.55
	Manchester	626.08
	Marseilles	1198.47
	Milan	1189.05
	Nantes	741.07
	Oporto	609.64
	Paris	853.40
	Porto Santo (Madeira)	392.84
	Rome	1319.95
	Santa Maria (Azores)	259.00
	Santiago	610.74
	Shannon	315.50
	Tenerife	634.84
	Toulouse-Blagnac	1050.17
	Zurich	1177.39”

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

Patrick McLoughlin

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

Department of Transport

5th December 1990

Explanatory Note

(This Note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Civil Aviation (Route Charges for Navigation Services) Regulations 1989 as follows:—

New unit rates and transatlantic charges are introduced, reflecting forecasts of costs and traffic for 1991, and taking into account the balance of over and under recoveries of revenue as compared with costs experienced by the countries participating in the Eurocontrol charging system in 989 (regulation 2).

The unit rates in ECUs set out in regulation 2 and the amount of the charges in ECUs set out in regulation 2(2) (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 1990 have been used. Cyprus, which will become a Member State of Eurocontrol in 1991, is included for the first time.

The unit rates for Greece, Ireland and Turkey have decreased on average by 19.3%. The unit rates for Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Malta, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and Switzerland have increased on average by 19.4%, for Portugal (Santa Maria) by 32.2% and for Spain (Canaries) by 19.7%. The unit rate for the United Kingdom has increased by 15.8%. These variations are not comparable because of changes in some countries' Flight Information Regions and because both over and under recoveries in previous years have been incorporated into the cost bases.

(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).

(3)

S.I. 1989/303; the relevant amending instrument is S.I. 1989/2257.