# The Civil Aviation (Route Charges for Navigation Services) (Amendment) Regulations 1989 S.I. 1989/2257 · made 1 December 1989 These Regulations amend the Civil Aviation (Route Charges for Navigation Services) Regulations 1989 as follows– Made under: Civil Aviation Act 1982 (Section 73) PDFs: Printed copy https://openlegislation.uk/civil-aviation-route-charges-for-navigation-services-amendment-regulations-1989/pdf/uksi_19892257_en.pdf ## Introductory text CIVIL AVIATION Made 1st December 1989 Laid before Parliament 11th December 1989 Coming into force 1st January 1990 Whereas in pursuance of tariffs approved under the Eurocontrol Convention and under the Multilateral Agreement relating to Route Charges concluded at Brussels on 12th February 1981 (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 the Eurocontrol Organisation 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), (4) and (6)(b)(i) of the Civil Aviation Act 1982 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 1989 and shall come into force on 1st January 1990. ## 2 The Civil Aviation (Route Charges for Navigation Services) Regulations 1989 shall be amended as follows: (1) In regulation 3(1) before the definition of the expression “FIR” there shall be added the following definition: ““ECUs” means European Currency Units being units of account defined by reference to more than one currency;”. (2) For the expression “United States dollars” wherever it appears there shall be substituted the expression “ECUs”. (3) For regulation 5 thereof there shall be substituted the following new regulation: “Payment 5 (1) The amount of the charge shall be payable to the Organisation at its principal office in Brussels and shall be paid in ECUs. (2) Without prejudice to any existing rule of law relating to the payment, under an order of the Court, of a debt expressed in ECUs, the equivalent in Sterling of the charge may be recovered in any Court of competent jurisdiction in the United Kingdom. (3) Nothing in this regulation shall prevent the Organisation from accepting as a good discharge payment other than in ECUs or at places other than the principal office of the Organisation.”. (4) For regulation 8 thereof there shall be substituted the following new regulation– “8 (1) For the purposes of regulations 6 and 7 the rate of exchange of the ECU to a national currency shall be – (a) Where the average monthly rate of exchange of the ECU to that national currency is established by the Commission of the European Communities, such rate of exchange, and publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities (Information and Notices) for the month preceding the month during which the flight takes place shall be sufficient evidence of that matter unless the contrary is proved; and a document purporting to be the Official Journal (Information and Notices) shall in any proceedings be received in evidence and, unless the contrary is proved, be deemed to be such a document; and (b) Where the average monthly rate of exchange of the ECU to that national currency is not established by the Commission of the European Communities, such rate of exchange as is calculated by reference to the rate of exchange between the ECU and the United States dollar and between the relevant national currency and the United States dollar established by the International Monetary Fund and publication in the International Financial Statistics of the International Monetary Fund for the month preceding the month during which the flight takes place shall be sufficient evidence of that matter unless the contrary is proved; and a document purporting to be the International Financial Statistics published by the International Monetary Fund shall in any proceedings be received in evidence and, unless the contrary is proved, be deemed to be such a document. (2) (a) Where the average monthly rate of exchange of the ECU to a national currency is established by the Commission of the European Communities, in the event that the Commission of the European Communities does not publish the Official Journal (Information and Notices) for the month preceding the month during which the flight takes place, a certificate given by or on behalf of the Treasury stating the average monthly rate of exchange of the ECU to the relevant national currency for the month preceding the month during which the flight takes place shall be sufficient evidence of that matter unless the contrary is proved; and a document purporting to be such a certificate shall in any proceedings be received in evidence and, unless the contrary is proved, be deemed to be such a certificate. (b) Where the average monthly rate of exchange of the ECU to a national currency is not established by the Commission of the European Communities, in the event that the International Monetary Fund does not publish the International Financial Statistics for the month during which the flight takes place, a certificate given by or on behalf of the Treasury stating the average monthly rate of exchange between the ECU and the United States dollar and between the relevant national currency and the United States dollar for the month preceding the month during which the flight takes place shall be sufficient evidence of that matter unless the contrary is proved; and a document purporting to be such a certificate shall in any proceedings be received in evidence and, unless the contrary is proved, be deemed to be such a certificate.”. (5) For Schedule 2 thereof shall be substituted Schedule 1 to these Regulations. (6) For Schedule 3 thereof there shall be substituted Schedule 2 to these Regulations. ## Signature Signed by the authority of the Secretary of State for Transport Patrick McLoughlin Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Department of Transport 1st December 1989 ## Schedule 1 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 50.67 1 ECU= 14.5864 Sch Belgium AIP Belgique 43.38 1 ECU= 43.3907 BF France AIP France (France Metropolitaine) 48.17 1 ECU= 7.02906 FF Germany, Federal Republic of AIP Germany 44.69 1 ECU= 2.07243 DM Greece AIP Greece 20.86 1 ECU= 179.152 Dra Ireland, Republic of AIP Ireland 26.10 1 ECU= 0.775973 Ir Malta AIP Malta 42.10 1 ECU= 0.384 MAL Netherlands AIP Netherlands 37.01 1 ECU= 2.33699 G Portugal AIP Portugal 38.59 Santa Maria FIR-10.69 1 ECU= 173.539 Esc Spain AIP Espana Madrid & Barcelona FIR-43.62 Canaries FIR-41.36 1 ECU= 130.211 Pts Switzerland AIP Switzerland 45.78 1 ECU= 1.78478 SF Turkey AIP Turkey 56.08 1 ECU= 2344.07 LT United Kingdom United Kingdom Air Pilot 71.64 1 ECU= £0.674318 ## Schedule 2 (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 Frankfurt 1,005.95 London 701.95 Paris 917.00 Prestwick 367.51 ZONE II – between W04000 and W11000 and N2800 and N5500 Amsterdam 677.89 Athens 941.44 Basle-Mulhouse 689.18 Belfast 167.32 Belgrade 1,023.24 Berlin-Schonefeld 667.06 Berlin-Tegel 643.00 Birmingham 401.75 Bordeaux 374.18 Brussels 678.86 Cardiff 286.72 Casablanca 327.19 Cologne-Bonn 756.08 Copenhagen 651.71 Dakar 140.89 Dublin 137.16 Dubrovnik 972.90 Düsseldorf 760.43 Frankfurt 820.50 Geneva 653.15 Glasgow 240.54 Hamburg 629.10 Helsinki 391.15 Jeddah 967.03 Lagos 134.80 Lamezia-Terme 723.41 Las Palmas (Canary Islands) 422.25 Lisbon 370.44 Ljubljana 998.61 London 459.09 Luxembourg 732.87 Lyons 607.64 Maastricht 705.28 Madrid 484.69 Malaga 571.90 Manchester 365.81 Manston 531.28 Milan 717.02 Monrovia 134.16 Moscow 499.93 Munich 898.10 Naples-Capodichino 754.77 Newcastle 380.31 Nice 916.65 Oporto 269.07 Oslo 405.48 Ostend 605.03 Paris 540.38 Pisa 715.70 Ponta Delgarda (Azores) 139.18 Prague 799.12 Prestwick 240.54 Rome 798.49 Sal Island (Cape Verde) 156.61 Santa Maria (Azores) 148.91 Santiago 229.07 Shannon 99.18 Stockholm 414.08 Stuttgart 764.92 Tel-Aviv 1,119.52 Tenerife 389.11 Turin 831.14 Venice 899.19 Vienna 1,093.63 Warsaw 633.45 Zagreb 1,023.24 Zürich 774.39 ZONE III – West of W11000 and between N2800 and N5500 Amsterdam 775.72 Düsseldorf 830.63 Frankfurt 835.39 London 661.40 Luxembourg 903.20 Madrid 390.51 Manchester 522.00 Milan 1,033.73 Paris 750.15 Prestwick 328.11 Shannon 94.48 Zürich 1,075.59 ZONE IV – West of W04000 and between N2000 and N2800 (including Mexico) Amsterdam 661.88 Berlin-Schonefeld 737.42 Brussels 596.17 Cologne-Bonn 690.89 Copenhagen 660.47 Düsseldorf 747.71 Frankfurt 764.08 Hamburg 794.57 Helsinki 424.11 London 451.28 Madrid 603.33 Oslo 434.14 Paris 466.66 Prague 831.45 Sal Island (Cape Verde) 87.55 Shannon 142.23 Stockholm 474.22 Vienna 997.05 Zürich 707.38 ZONE V – West of W04000 and between the equator and N2000 Amsterdam 829.10 Bordeaux 685.29 Frankfurt 845.48 Las Palmas (Canary Islands) 517.07 London 633.13 Lisbon 501.41 Lyons 881.94 Madrid 663.56 Manchester 533.23 Marseilles 996.13 Milan 976.10 Oporto 487.51 Paris 698.22 Porto Santo (Madeira) 304.84 Santa Maria (Azores) 195.95 Santiago 488.13 Shannon 242.41 Tenerife 512.94 Toulouse-Blagnac 837.26 Zürich ## 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 European Currency Unit replaces the United States dollar as from 1st January 1990 for the purposes of payment and calculation of the charge payable to the Eurocontrol Organisation as agreed between the Member State of Eurocontrol (regulations 2(1), (2) and (3)). For the purpose of calculating the charges specified in regulations 6 and 7 of the principal Regulations the rate of exchange of the ECU to a national currency shall in cases where the Commission of the European Communities has established the average monthly rate of exchange of the ECU to a national currency be that rate of exchange, which is published in the Commission`s Official Journal (Information and Notices). In cases where the Commission of the European Communities has not established the average monthly rate of exchange of the ECU to a national currency, the relevant rate of exchange is to be calculated by reference to the rates of exchange between the ECU and the United States dollar and between the national currency and the United States dollar established by the International Monetary Fund and published in the Fund`s International Financial Statistics (regulation 2(4)). Both publications can be inspected at the Civil Aviation Authority Central Library, CAA House, 45-59 Kingsway, London WC2B 6TE. New rates and transatlantic tariffs are introduced reflecting forecasts of costs and traffic for 1990 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 1988 (regulation 2(5) and Schedule 1). The unit rates in ECUs set out in Schedule 1 and the amount of the charges in ECUs set out in Schedule 2 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 the 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 1989 have been used. Malta which became a Member State of Eurocontrol in 1989 is included for the first time. The unit rates for Austria, Belgium, Federal Republic of Germany, Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, Ireland, Netherlands and Switzerland have decreased by an average of 15.0 per cent and for Portugal (Santa Maria) by 4.6 per cent. The unit rates for France, Greece, Portugal (Mainland), Spain (Mainland) and Turkey have increased on average by 29.4 per cent and for Spain (Canaries) by 37.9 per cent. The unit rate for the United Kingdom has increased by 39.7 per cent. These variations are not comparable as some countries are repaying in 1990 large sums over recovered in previous years. --- Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/2257 (the official version) Page: https://openlegislation.uk/civil-aviation-route-charges-for-navigation-services-amendment-regulations-1989 Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives.