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 2SPECIFIED 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.