The Civil Aviation (Route Charges for Navigation Services) (Second Amendment) Regulations 2000
S.I. 2000/3212 · Made 6 December 2000
CIVIL AVIATION
Made 6th December 2000
Laid before Parliament 11th December 2000
Coming into force 1st January 2001
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 1981f2 (being international agreements to which the United Kingdom is a party), the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions 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 the Environment, Transport and the Regions, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 73(1)(a) and (6) of the Civil Aviation Act 1982f3 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:
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Footnotes
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Cmnd. 8662.
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Cmnd. 8662.
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1982 c. 16. The expression “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 2000 and shall come into force on 1st January 2001.
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The Civil Aviation (Route Charges for Navigation Services) Regulations 1999f1 shall be amended as follows:
In regulation 5(4) for the figure “7.82%” there shall be substituted “9.45%”.
For Schedule 2 there shall be substituted the following Schedule—
“SCHEDULE 2
SPECIFIED AIRSPACES
Regulations 3(1), 4(3) and 6(1)
(1) (2) (3) (4) Country Publication in which FIRs are described Unit Rate in euros Established at a Rate of exchange of Excluding Shanwick FIR
Austria AIP Austria 65.57 Belgium and Luxembourg AIP Belgique 66.91 Bulgaria AIP Bulgaria 56.99 Croatia AIP Croatia 47.42 1 euro = 7.51000 HRK Cyprus AIP Cyprus 19.63 1 euro = 0.573420 £Cy Czech Republic AIP Czech Republic 34.72 1 euro = 35.3997 CZK Denmark AIP Denmark 52.11 1 euro = 7.45589 Kr France AIP France (France (Métropolitaine) 52.42 Germany AIP Germany 68.03 Greece AIP Greece 37.34 1 euro = 338.323 Dra Hungary AIP Hungary 28.85 1 euro = 262.183 Hf Ireland, Republic of AIP Ireland 19.67 Italy AIP Italy 56.47 Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia AIP FYROM 57.11 1 euro = 56.6754 MKD Malta AIP Malta 44.25 1 euro = 0.398823 Lm Moldova AIP Moldova 49.60 1 euro = 10.6628 MDL Netherlands AIP Netherlands 53.09 Norway AIP Norway 54.27 1 euro = 8.02191 KR Portugal AIP Portugal Lisbon FIR-40.46 Santa Maria FIR-12.78 Romania AIP Romania 42.52 Slovakia AIP Slovakia 58.96 1 euro = 43.0325 SKK Slovenia AIP Slovenia 62.84 1 euro = 208.540 SIT Spain AIP España Madrid & Barcelona FIR-49.20 Canaries FIR-50.22 Sweden AIP Sweden 54.86 1 euro = 8.41290 SKr Switzerland AIP Switzerland 76.43 1 euro = 1.52848 SF Turkey AIP Turkey 44.49 United Kingdom United Kingdom Air Pilotf2 83.73 1 euro = £0.606805 ”
Signature
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions
Chris Mullin
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,
Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
6th December 2000
Explanatory note
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations further amend the Civil Aviation (Route Charges for Navigation Services) Regulations 1999 (the “principal Regulations”) as follows:
In regulation 5(4) of the principal Regulations the rate of interest payable is increased from 7.82% to 9.45% (regulation 2(1)).
New unit rates are introduced in Schedule 2 of the principal Regulations reflecting forecasts of costs and traffic for 2001 and taking into account the balance of over and under recoveries of revenue as compared with costs experienced by countries participating in the Eurocontrol charges system in 1999. Moldova will become a participating State in the Eurocontrol charges system on 1st January 2001 (regulation 2(2) and Schedule).
The unit rates in euros set out in Schedule 2 of 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 euro 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 rate between the euro and the currencies of the participating countries obtaining in the month of July 2000 have been used in the case of those countries which do not establish their unit rate in euros.
The unit rates of Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Ireland, Italy and Slovenia decrease on average by 6.7%. The unit rate for Portugal (Santa Maria FIR) decreases by 21.9%. The unit rates of Austria, Belgium and Luxembourg, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal (Lisbon FIR), Romania, Slovakia, Spain (Madrid and Barcelona FIRs), Sweden, Switzerland and Turkey increase on average by 12.3%. The unit rate for Spain (Canaries FIR) increases by 14.0%. The unit rate of the United Kingdom increases by 2.4%.
The United Kingdom Air Pilot and the Foreign Aeronautical Information Publications referred to in the Regulations can be purchased from Westward documedia Limited, 37 Windsor Street, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire GL52 2DG and can be inspected at major aerodromes in the United Kingdom. The office of Eurocontrol is at Rue de la Fusée 96 B-1130, Brussels.
A regulatory impact appraisal has been prepared in connection with these regulations. It has been placed in the libraries of each of the Houses of Parliament. Copies of the same can be obtained from the Secretary and Legal Adviser, Civil Aviation Authority, CAA House, 45-59 Kingsway, London WC2B 6TE.