The Civil Aviation (Route Charges for Navigation Services) (Second Amendment) Regulations 1996
S.I. 1996/3089 · Made 10 December 1996
CIVIL AVIATION
Made 10th December 1996
Laid before Parliament 11th December 1996
Coming into force 1st January 1997
Whereas in pursuance of tariffs approved under the Eurocontrol Conventionf1 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 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), (6) and (7) of the Civil Aviation Act 1982f2 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:
Annotations to the whole text
Footnotes
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Cmnd. 8662.
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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).
Contents
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These Regulations may be cited as the Civil Aviation (Route Charges for Navigation Services) (Second Amendment) Regulations 1996 and shall come into force on 1st January 1997.
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The Civil Aviation (Route Charges for Navigation Services) Regulations 1995f1 shall be amended as follows:
For regulation 5(3) there shall be substituted the following regulation—
“(3)If the amount of the charge payable under regulation 4(1) is not paid in cleared funds by the operator of the aircraft within 30 days of the date payment is demanded by Eurocontrol, interest calculated in accordance with paragraph (4) below on the unpaid amount shall be paid from that day until the date when cleared funds are received by Eurocontrol.”.
In regulation 5(4) for the figure “8.69%” there shall be substituted the figure “7.27%”.
For regulation 8 there shall be substituted the following regulation—
“8For the purposes of regulations 6 and 7 the rate of exchange of the ECU to a national currency shall be the average monthly rate of exchange of the ECU to that national currency established by Eurocontrol for the month preceding the month during which the flight takes place.”.
After regulation 19 there shall be added the following regulation—
“Records of Movements of Aircraft
20(1)This regulation shall apply to any aerodrome to which section 88 of the Civil Aviation Act 1982f2 applies and to Belfast International Airport, Belfast City Airport and City of Derry Airport.
(2)The manager of any aerodrome to which this regulation applies shall keep a log (hereafter in this regulation referred to as “the aircraft movement log”) in which the following particulars shall be recorded:
(a)the type and registration mark of each aircraft taking off from or landing at the aerodrome;
(b)the date and time of each such take off and landing;
(c)the origin or destination of each aircraft as the case may be.
(3)The aircraft movement log shall be preserved by the aerodrome manager for a period of two years after the date of the last entry therein.
(4)The aircraft movement log shall be maintained in a legible form or in a form which is capable of being reproduced in a legible form.
(5)The aerodrome manager shall, within seven days after being requested to do so by any officer of the CAA, produce to such officer the aircraft movement log in a legible form.”.
For Schedule 2 thereof there shall be substituted—
“SCHEDULE 2
SPECIFIED AIRSPACES
Regulations 3(1), 6(1) 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 59.72 1 ECU=13.4475 Sch Belgium & Luxembourg AIP Belgique 68.39 1 ECU=39.3520 BF Cyprus AIP Cyprus 22.90 1 ECU=0.588890 £Cy Czech Republic AIP Czech Republic 49.09 1 ECU=33.7305 CZK Denmark AIP Denmark 54.66 1 ECU=7.36091 DKr France AIP France (France Metropolitaine) 61.89 1 ECU=6.50787 FF Germany AIP Germany 72.89 1 ECU=1.91115 DM Greece AIP Greece 35.15 1 ECU=303.798 Dra Hungary AIP Hungary 24.01 1 ECU=198.814 Hf Ireland Republic of AIP Ireland 21.20 1 ECU=0.788059 £Ir Italy AIP Italy 65.21 1 ECU=1929.22 L Malta AIP Malta 43.66 1 ECU=0.457648 Lm Netherlands AIP Netherlands 55.76 1 ECU=2.14253 G Norway AIP Norway 50.96 1 ECU=8.19539 NKr Portugal AIP Portugal 36.19 Santa Maria FIRS—12.72 1 ECU=195.200 Esc Slovakia AIP Slovakia 68.67 1 ECU=38.9975 SKK Slovenia AIP Slovenia 76.33 1 ECU=170.483 SIT Spain AIP Espana Madrid & Barcelona FIRS—51.65 Canaries FIRS—48.50 1 ECU=161.095 Pts Sweden AIP Sweden 46.80 1 ECU=8.42542 SKr Switzerland AIP Switzerland 84.87 1 ECU=1.56306 SF Turkey AIP Turkey 48.57 1 ECU=112870.0 LT United Kingdom United Kingdom Air Pilot* 75.01 1 ECU=£0.813841 * Excluding Shanwick FIR”
For Schedule 3 thereof there shall be substituted—
“SCHEDULE 3
Regulation 7
(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 512.37 Frankfurt 1157.26 London 734.66 Paris 985.12 Prestwick 384.80 ZONE II –between W04000 and W11000 and N2800 and N5500 Abidjan 164.72 Amman 2054.58 Amsterdam 725.97 Athens 1817.34 Bahrain 1892.98 Banjul 159.64 Barcelona 775.04 Basle 862.61 Belfast 184.56 Berlin 1078.82 Birmingham 408.48 Bordeaux 500.95 Bristol 405.85 Brussels 718.25 Bucharest 1489.82 Budapest 1430.14 Cairo 2085.77 Cardiff 267.01 Casablanca 355.56 Cologne-Bonn 877.40 Copenhagen 634.08 Dakar 159.51 Dublin 118.31 Duüsseldorf 839.49 East Midlands 382.56 Frankfurt 954.97 Geneva 867.26 Glasgow 273.04 Gothenburg 830.28 Hamburg 910.46 Helsinki 688.78 Istanbul 1470.30 Jeddah 1971.28 Johannesburg 159.89 Kiev 1228.47 Lagos 160.40 –between W04000 and W11000 and N2800 and N5500 Larnaca 1977.65 Las Palmas (Canary Islands) 499.01 Leeds and Bradford 401.57 Lille 625.48 Lisbon 389.22 London 477.82 Luxembourg 858.69 Lyons 746.46 Maastricht 767.41 Madrid 578.42 Malaga 620.98 Manchester 335.88 Manston 539.59 Marseilles 883.20 Milan 1037.38 Monrovia 159.64 Moscow 862.89 Munich 1159.71 Nantes 435.74 Naples 1408.31 Newcastle 386.44 Nice 923.11 Oporto 283.13 Oslo 297.61 Ostend 608.29 Paris 663.43 Ponta Delgada (Azores) 165.61 Prague 1189.72 Prestwick 248.46 Riyadh 1959.05 Rome 1269.42 Sal Island (Cape Verde) 159.51 Santa Maria (Azores) 177.19 Santiago 271.61 Shannon 80.56 Sofia 1416.97 Stockholm 507.63 Stuttgart 980.26 Tel-Aviv 2088.61 Tenerife 460.01 Toulouse-Blagnac 658.71 Turin 999.31 Venice 1288.78 Vienna 1345.57 Warsaw 980.30 Zurich 985.40 ZONE III –West of W11000 and between N2800 and N5500 Amsterdam 809.67 Copenhagen 581.05 Cologne-Bonn 924.03 Duüsseldorf 930.09 –West of W11000 and between N2800 and N5500 Frankfurt 1035.24 Geneva 1122.94 Glasgow 343.55 Helsinki 617.62 London 704.95 Luxembourg 985.47 Madrid 455.81 Manchester 545.27 Milan 1297.55 Moscow 570.24 Muünich 1366.84 Paris 903.88 Prestwick 343.55 Rome 1311.10 Shannon 76.74 Warsaw 650.68 Zuürich 1172.59 ZONE IV –West of W04000 and between N2000 and N2800 (including Mexico) Amsterdam 747.28 Barcelona 917.79 Berlin 881.50 Brussels 719.76 Cologne—Bonn 864.18 Duüsseldorf 885.92 Frankfurt 947.87 Hamburg 904.62 Helsinki 727.79 Las Palmas (Canary Islands) 595.35 Lisbon 454.87 London 497.76 Luxembourg 908.67 Madrid 609.22 Manchester 344.73 Milan 1006.61 Muünich 1117.84 Paris 634.34 Prague 1164.63 Rome 1199.29 Sal Island (Cape Verde) 104.18 Salzburg 1146.85 Santa Maria (Azores) 178.21 Santiago 464.04 Shannon 169.60 Vienna 1301.83 Zuürich 932.90 ZONE V –West of W04000 and between the Equator and N2000 Amsterdam 903.14 Barcelona 929.67 Basle 968.61 Berlin 1266.15 Bordeaux 823.55 Brussels 820.94 Cologne-Bonn 996.09 Copenhagen 1353.70 Duüsseldorf 1022.76 Frankfurt 1046.96 Glasgow 358.15 –West of W04000 and between the Equator and N2000 Hamburg 1075.36 Hannover 1057.88 Helsinki 1194.20 Las Palmas (Canary Islands) 609.20 Lille 901.55 Lisbon 539.61 London 669.93 Lyons 972.76 Madrid 714.61 Manchester 406.23 Marseilles 1141.28 Milan 1117.82 Munich 1153.29 Nantes 792.62 Oporto 524.83 Paris 868.08 Porto Santo (Madeira) 346.67 Prestwick 358.15 Rome 1466.96 Salzburg 1170.90 Santa Maria (Azores) 233.16 Santiago 546.96 Shannon 277.55 Stuttgart 991.39 Tenerife 604.35 Toulouse-Blagnac 952.26 Vienna 1358.92 Zuürich 1092.10 ”
Signature
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport Goschen
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,
Department of Transport
10th December 1996
Explanatory note
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations further amend the Civil Aviation (Route Charges for Navigation Services) Regulations 1995 (“the Principal Regulations”) as follows:
Regulation 5(3) of the Principal Regulations is amended to provide that if the amount of the charge payable under regulation 4(1) of the Principal Regulations is not paid in cleared funds by the operator of the aircraft within 30 days of the date payment is demanded by Eurocontrol, interest shall be paid from that day until the date when cleared funds are received by Eurocontrol (regulation 2(a)).
In regulation 5(4) of the Principal Regulations the rate of interest is reduced from 8.69% to 7.27% (regulation 2(b)).
Regulation 8 of the Principal Regulations is amended to provide for the establishment of the average monthly rate of exchange of the ECU to a national currency by Eurocontrol (regulation 2(c)).
A new regulation is introduced requiring the manager of every aerodrome to which section 88 of the Civil Aviation Act 1982 applies together with Belfast International Airport, Belfast City Airport and City of Derry Airport to keep an aircraft movement log which records particulars of the type and registration mark of each aircraft taking off from or landing at the aerodrome, the date and time of each such take off and landing and the origin or destination of each aircraft. The log has to be preserved for a period of 2 years after the date of the last entry and has to be capable of being reproduced in a legible form (regulation 2(d)).
New unit rates and transatlantic charges are introduced, reflecting forecasts of costs and traffic for 1997 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 1995. Italy, Slovakia and Sweden became participating States in the Eurocontrol charging system from 1st January 1997 (regulations 2(e) and (f)).
The unit rates in ECUs set out in Schedule 2 to the Principal Regulations and the amount of the charges in ECUs set out in Schedule 3 to the Principal Regulations (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 1996 have been used.
The unit rates for Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal and Switzerland have decreased on average by 6.1%. The unit rates for Cyprus, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Malta, Slovenia, Spain and Turkey have increased on average by 32.2% and for Portugal (Santa Maria) and Spain (Canaries) by 37.9%. The unit rate for the United Kingdom has decreased by 0.1%.
Amman, Gothenburg, Salzburg, Copenhagen and Lille have been added to certain zones in Schedule 3.
The United Kingdom Air Pilot and the foreign Aeronautical Information Publications referred to in the Regulations can be purchased from the Civil Aviation Authority, Greville House, 37 Gratton Road, Cheltenham, Glos GL50 2BN and can be inspected at major aerodromes in the United Kingdom.