# The Aviation Statistics Regulations 2023, Regulation 3: Obligation to collect information


(1) The CAA must collect information relating to—
(a) the carriage of passengers, freight and mail by commercial air services; and
(b) civil aircraft movements to or from airports operating commercial air services in the United Kingdom.
(2) The information which the CAA must collect is—
(a) for a category 1 airport the information contained in tables 1 and 2 in paragraph 2 of the Schedule; and
(b) for a category 2 airport the information contained in tables 1 and 3 in paragraph 2 of the Schedule.
(3) In this section—
“category 1 airport” means an airport in the United Kingdom which handles between 15,000 and 150,000 passenger units per year;
“category 2 airport” means an airport in the United Kingdom which handles more than 150,000 passenger units per year,
and for any year N an airport is a category 1 airport or a category 2 airport by reference to the lowest number of passenger units it handled in the year N-2, N-1 or N.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2023/1074/regulation/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/aviation-statistics-regulations-2023/regulation-3
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