Explanatory note

These Regulations further amend the Civil Aviation (Route Charges for Navigation Services) Regulations 1994 by introducing new transatlantic charges.

The amount of the charges in ECUs set out in Schedule 3 of the 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 1994 have been used.