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Article 4 Traffic rights

United Kingdom

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1.

UK air carriers may, under the conditions laid down in this Regulation:

(a)

fly across the territory of the Union without landing;

(b)

make stops in the territory of the Union for non-traffic purposes, within the meaning of the Chicago Convention;

(c)

perform scheduled and non-scheduled international air transport services for passengers, combination of passengers and cargo and all-cargo services between any pair of points of which one is situated in the territory of the United Kingdom and the other one is situated in the territory of the Union;

(d)

for a maximum of five months from the first day of application set out in the first subparagraph of Article 16(2), perform scheduled and non-scheduled international air transport services for all-cargo services between any pair of points of which one is situated in the territory of the Union and the other is situated in the territory of a third country, as part of a service with origin or destination in the territory of the United Kingdom. The total seasonal capacity to be provided by UK air carriers for those services shall not exceed the total number of frequencies operated by those carriers for those services during the IATA winter and summer seasons of the year 2018, respectively, pro rata temporis;

(e)

for a maximum of seven months from the first day of application set out in the first subparagraph of Article 16(2), continue to provide scheduled air services on routes subject to public service obligations where the right to operate has been granted in accordance with Articles 16 and 17 of Regulation (EC) No 1008/2008 before the date of application of this Regulation and subject to the compliance with the conditions for those services set out in Regulation (EC) No 1008/2008.

2.

The Member States shall use the period referred to in point (e) of paragraph 1 to take any measures required in order to ensure that the public services considered necessary continue after the expiry of that period, in accordance with Articles 16 and 17 of Regulation (EC) No 1008/2008.

3.

The Member States shall neither negotiate nor enter into any bilateral agreements or arrangements with the United Kingdom on matters falling within the scope of this Regulation with respect to the period during which this Regulation applies. With respect to that period, they shall not otherwise grant UK air carriers, in connection with air transport, any rights other than those granted by this Regulation.