1990 No. 2482
CIVIL AVIATION

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

Made
Laid before Parliament
Coming into force
Whereas in pursuance of tariffs approved under the Eurocontrol Convention1 and under the Multilateral Agreement relating to Route Charges concluded at Brussels on 12th February 19811 (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 19822 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 19893 shall be amended as follows:

(1)

For Schedule 2 thereof there shall be substituted —

“SCHEDULE 2SPECIFIED AIRSPACES

Regulations 3(1), 6 and 7

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

Country

Publication in which FIRS are described

Unit Rate in ECUs

Established at a Rate of exchange of

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”

†

Excluding Shanwick FIR

(2)

For Schedule 3 thereof there shall be substituted —

“SCHEDULE 3

Regulation 7

(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

(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.