The Civil Aviation (Route Charges for Navigation Services) (Fifth Amendment) Regulations 1992

Statutory Instruments

1992 No. 3040

CIVIL AVIATION

The Civil Aviation (Route Charges for Navigation Services) (Fifth Amendment) Regulations 1992

Made

3rd December 1992

Laid before Parliament

10th December 1992

Coming into force

1st January 1993

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), (6)(b)(i) and 74(4)(a) 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) (Fifth Amendment) Regulations 1992 and shall come into force on 1st January 1993.

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

(1) For paragraph (xii) of regulation 9 thereof there shall be substituted the following paragraph:

“(xii) flights made by helicopters between any point in the United Kingdom and an off-shore installation within the area bounded by straight lines joining successively the following points—

• N6300 W00500; N6300 E/W00000; thence south along the UK Median Line to N5500 E00302; N5500 W00100; N5600 W00230; N5740 W00230; N5740 W00400; N5830 W00400; N5830 W00500; N6300 W00500.”.

(2) In regulation 10 thereof for the word “require” there shall be substituted the word “request”.

(3) In regulation 11 thereof for the word “requirement” there shall be substituted the word “request”.

(4) 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
* Excluding Shanwick FIR.”
Austria	AIP Austria	53.87	1 ECU = 14.3758 Sch
Belgium	AIP Belgique	85.42	1 ECU = 42.0743 BF
Cyprus	AIP Cyprus	14.28	1 ECU = 0.587855 £Cy
France	AIP France (France Metropolitaine)	62.56	1 ECU = 6.89232 FF
Germany	AIP Germany	71.20	1ECU = 2.04243 DM
Greece	AIP Greece	26.91	1 ECU = 250.515 Dra
Hungary	AIP Hungary	14.14	1 ECU = 106.08 Hf
Ireland, Republic of	AIP Ireland	24.03	1 ECU = 0.766221 £Ir
Malta	AIP of Malta	75.26	1 ECU = 0.411384 Lm
Netherlands	AIP Netherlands	57.91	1 ECU = 2.30310 G
Portugal	AIP Portugal	42.46	1 ECU = 172.911 Esc
		Santa Maria FIRS 11.09
Spain	AIP Espana	Madrid & Barcelona FIRS—49.56	1 ECU = 129.976 Pts
		Canaries FIRS—52.86
Switzerland	AIP Switzerland	70.59	1 ECU = 1.82743 SF
Turkey	AIP Turkey	30.98	1 ECU = 9.519.40 LT
United Kingdom	United Kingdom Air Pilot*	96.45	1 ECU = £0.714185

(5) 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 ECU's
ZONE I —
between W01400 and W11000 and North of N5500 with the exception of Iceland	Frankfurt	1400.61
	London	944.48
	Paris	1227.98
	Prestwick	494.79
ZONE II
— between W04000 and W11000 and N2800 and N5500	Abidjan	143.62
	Amman	1658.94
	Amsterdam	916.02
	Athens	1247.79
	Banjul	139.18
	Barcelona	763.78
	Basle	936.75
	Belfast	210.15
	Belgrade	1510.53
	Berlin	1019.96
	Birmingham	516.55
	Bordeaux	522.96
	Bristol	511.89
	Brussels	871.22
	Budapest	1449.90
	Cairo	1462.61
	Cardiff	323.56
	Casablanca	347.85
	Cologne—Bonn	1064.46
	Copenhagen	829.70
	Dakar	139.07
	Dublin	138.78
	Dubrovnik	1431.82
	Dusseldorf	1043.85
	East Midlands	572.25
	Frankfurt	1130.62
	Geneva	901.29
	Glasgow	318.73
	Hamburg	1050.48
	Helsinki	550.48
	Istanbul	1532.05
	Jeddah	1599.76
	Kiev	1071.99
	Lagos	139.84
	Lamezia Terme	1171.86
	Las Palmas (Canary Islands)	485.93
	Leeds and Bradford	509.56
	Lille	757.70
	Lisbon	397.16
	Llubljana	1367.13
	London	599.20
	Luxembourg	1024.75
	Lyons	926.03
	Maastricht	958.25
	Madrid	553.72
	Malaga	633.66
	Manchester	466.38
	Manston	678.13
	Marseille	931.10
	Milan	1038.92
	Monrovia	139.18
	Moscow	594.09
	Munich	1309.43
	Nantes	486.84
	Naples	1048.31
	Newcastle	491.27
	Nice	938.23
	Oporto	290.86
	Oslo	614.37
	Ostend	766.75
	Paris	730.73
	Ponta Delgada (Azores)	144.39
	Prague	1313.45
	Prestwick	318.73
	Riyadh	1570.04
	Rome	1075.36
	Sal Island (Cape Verde)	139.07
	Santa Maria (Azores)	154.48
	Santiago	254.19
	Shannon	91.31
	Sofia	1586.39
	Stockholm	614.37
	Stuttgart	1148.35
	Tel—Aviv	1627.04
	Tenerife	455.47
	Toulouse—Blagnac	692.86
	Turin	1094.79
	Venice	1236.32
	Vienna	1430.59
	Warsaw	941.77
	Zagreb	1501.62
	Zurich	1066.90
ZONE III
—West of W11000 and between N2800 and N5500	Amsterdam	1052.69
	Copenhagen	862.26
	Dusseldorf	1145.79
	Frankfurt	1172.48
	Geneva	1367.86
	Hamburg	763.99
	London	882.46
	Luxembourg	1287.60
	Madrid	439.89
	Manchester	700.45
	Milan	1075.75
	Paris	996.92
	Prestwick	441.74
	Shannon	86.99
	Zurich	1451.36
ZONE IV
—West of W04000 and between N2000 and N2800 (including Mexico)	Amsterdam	880.12
	Barcelona	871.34
	Berlin	1063.00
	Brussels	895.38
	Cologne—Bonn	1020.79
	Copenhagen	870.60
	Dusseldorf	1001.65
	Frankfurt	1064.46
	Gothenburg	738.11
	Hamburg	1048.12
	Helsinki	544.94
	Lisbon	450.80
	London	587.16
	Madrid	639.04
	Manchester	418.59
	Milan	981.49
	Munich	1191.52
	Oslo	551.69
	Paris	655.71
	Prague	1245.53
	Rome	1101.75
	Sal Island (Cape Verde)	90.83
	Santa Maria (Azores)	155/37
	Shannon	171.11
	Stockholme	608.09
	Vienna	1373.50
	Zurich	990.12
ZONE V
—West of W04000 and between the equator and N2000	Amsterdam	1042.38
	Barcelona	905.80
	Basle	995.07
	Bordeaux	712.07
	Cologne—Bonn	1084.10
	Dusseldorf	1158.05
	Frankfurt	1106.92
	Hamburg	1178.14
	Helsinki	706.40
	Las Palmas (Canary Islands)	620.81
	Lisbon	534.39
	London	808.54
	Lyons	947.80
	Madrid	722.27
	Manchester	625.37
	Marseilles	1123.24
	Milan	1118.92
	Munich	1183.48
	Nantes	670.47
	Oporto	519.53
	Paris	826.66
	Porto Santo (Maderia)	320.25
	Prestwick	393.95
	Rome	1237.17
	Santa Maria (Azores)	203.28
	Santiago	523.34
	Shannon	264.78
	Stockholm	1257.79
	Tenerife	615.53
	Toulouse—Blagnac	670.47
	Zurich	1097.57”

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport.

Caithness

Minister of State,

Department of Transport

3rd December 1992

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:

• The co-ordinates defining the area of the Northern North Sea in respect of which flights made by helicopters between any point in the United Kingdom and an offshore installation are exempt from the Regulations are revised (regulation 2(1)).

• For the purposes of the detention and sale of aircraft for unpaid charges provisions contained in regulations 11 to 14 of the principal Regulations the Eurocontrol Organisation may request and not require the CAA to act on its behalf (regulation 2(2) and (3)).

• New unit rates and transatlantic charges are introduced, reflecting forecasts of costs and traffic for 1993, 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 1991 (regulation 2(4)).

• The unit rates in ECUs set out in regulation 2(4) and the amount of the charges in ECUs set out in regulation 2(5) (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 1992 have been used.

• The unit rates for Austria, Cyprus, Germany, Ireland, Malta, Portugal, Switzerland and Turkey have decreased on average by 9% and for Portugal (Santa Maria) by 23.9%. The unit rates for Belgium, France, Greece, Netherlands and Spain have increased on average by 21.3% and for Spain (Canaries) by 3.4%. Hungary became a member state of Eurocontrol on 1 July 1992 and its unit rate is included for the first time. The unit rate for the United Kingdom has increased by 1.1%.

• Bristol, East Midlands, Gothenburg, Istanbul, Kiev, Lamezia Terme, Leeds Bradford, Marseilles, Sofia and Venice airports are added to certain zones for the purposes of regulation 7 of the principal Regulations (regulation 2(5)).

(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, as amended by S.I. 1989/2257, 1990/2482, 1991/2739 and 1992/1902.