The Civil Aviation (Route Charges for Navigation Services) (Second Amendment) Regulations 1993

Made: 9th December 1993

Laid before Parliament: 10th December 1993

Coming into force

Now, therefore, the Secretary of State for Transport in exercise of his powers under section 73(1)(a), (1A)(a), and (6)(b)(i) of the Civil Aviation Act 1982[^f00003] and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:

1

These Regulations may be cited as the Civil Aviation (Route Charges for Navigation Services) (Second Amendment) Regulations 1993.This regulation and regulation 3 shall come into force on 31st December 1993 and regulation 2 shall come into force on 1st January 1994.

2

The Civil Aviation (Route Charges for Navigation Services) Regulations 1993[^f00004] shall be amended as follows:

• (a) For Schedule 2 thereof shall be substituted—

SCHEDULE 2

• (b) For Schedule 3 thereof there shall be substituted—

SCHEDULE 3

3

The Civil Aviation (Route Charges for Navigation Services) (Amendment) Regulations 1993[^f00005] are hereby revoked.

Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

Caithness — Minister of State, — 9th December 1993

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulation)

These Regulations revoke the Civil Aviation (Route Charges for Navigation Services) (Amendment) Regulations 1993 and amend the Civil Aviation (Route Charges for Navigation Services) Regulations 1993 as follows:

The unit rates and transatlantic charges are introduced, reflecting forecasts of costs and traffic for 1994, 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 1992 (regulation 2).

The unit rates in ECUs set out in regulation 2(a) and the amount of the charges in ECUs set out in regulation 2(b) (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 1993 have been used.

The unit rates for Belgium, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Portugal and Turkey have decreased on average by 19.6%.The unit rates for Austria, Cyprus, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Spain and Switzerland have increased on average by 19.3% and for Portugal (Santa Maria) by 0.8% and Spain (Canaries) by 5.1%.

The unit rate for the United Kingdom has decreased by 9.5%. Bucharest, Johannesburg, Timisoara, Munich, Rome, Glasgow and Vienna are added to certain zones for the purposes of regulation 7 and Schedule 3 to the principal Regulations.The reference to Belgrade is deleted from Schedule 3 (regulation 2(b)).

Footnotes

[^f00001]: Cmnd. 8662.

[^f00002]: 1982 c. 16; section 73(1A) was added by section 1 of the Civil Aviation (Air Navigation Charges) Act 1989 (c. 9);

[^f00003]: “prescribed” is defined in section 105(1).

[^f00004]: S.I.1993/1965 amended by S.I.1993/2970 (which is revoked by regulation 3 of these Regulations).

[^f00005]: S.I. 1993/2970.