# Regulation (EU) 2020/2225 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 December 2020 on common rules ensuring basic air connectivity following the end of the transition period provided for in the Agreement on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community (Text with EEA relevance), Article 4: Traffic rights

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

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.
2. 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.
3. Notwithstanding paragraph 2, the Member States may authorise, on an ad hoc basis and in accordance with their national law, the provision of the following in their territory by a UK air carrier:
(a) air ambulance services;
(b) all-cargo non-scheduled air transport services between points in their territory and points in a third country as part of a service with origin or destination in the United Kingdom to the extent necessary for the transport of medical equipment, vaccines and medicines provided that they do not constitute a disguised form of scheduled air services.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2020/2225/article/4 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2020-2225/article-4
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