
1 
These Regulations may be cited as the Civil Aviation (Route Charges for Navigation Services) (Amendment) Regulations 1989 and shall come into force on 1st January 1990.
2 
The Civil Aviation (Route Charges for Navigation Services) Regulations 1989 shall be amended as follows:
(1) In regulation 3(1) before the definition of the expression “FIR” there shall be added the following definition:“
 “ECUs” means European Currency Units being units of account defined by reference to more than one currency;”.
(2) For the expression “United States dollars” wherever it appears there shall be substituted the expression “ECUs”.
(3) For regulation 5 thereof there shall be substituted the following new regulation:“
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(1) The amount of the charge shall be payable to the Organisation at its principal office in Brussels and shall be paid in ECUs.
(2) Without prejudice to any existing rule of law relating to the payment, under an order of the Court, of a debt expressed in ECUs, the equivalent in Sterling of the charge may be recovered in any Court of competent jurisdiction in the United Kingdom.
(3) Nothing in this regulation shall prevent the Organisation from accepting as a good discharge payment other than in ECUs or at places other than the principal office of the Organisation.”.
(4) For regulation 8 thereof there shall be substituted the following new regulation–“
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(1) For the purposes of regulations 6 and 7 the rate of exchange of the ECU to a national currency shall be –
(a) Where the average monthly rate of exchange of the ECU to that national currency is established by the Commission of the European Communities, such rate of exchange, and publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities (Information and Notices) for the month preceding the month during which the flight takes place shall be sufficient evidence of that matter unless the contrary is proved; and a document purporting to be the Official Journal (Information and Notices) shall in any proceedings be received in evidence and, unless the contrary is proved, be deemed to be such a document; and
(b) Where the average monthly rate of exchange of the ECU to that national currency is not established by the Commission of the European Communities, such rate of exchange as is calculated by reference to the rate of exchange between the ECU and the United States dollar and between the relevant national currency and the United States dollar established by the International Monetary Fund and publication in the International Financial Statistics of the International Monetary Fund for the month preceding the month during which the flight takes place shall be sufficient evidence of that matter unless the contrary is proved; and a document purporting to be the International Financial Statistics published by the International Monetary Fund shall in any proceedings be received in evidence and, unless the contrary is proved, be deemed to be such a document.
(2) 
(a) Where the average monthly rate of exchange of the ECU to a national currency is established by the Commission of the European Communities, in the event that the Commission of the European Communities does not publish the Official Journal (Information and Notices) for the month preceding the month during which the flight takes place, a certificate given by or on behalf of the Treasury stating the average monthly rate of exchange of the ECU to the relevant national currency for the month preceding the month during which the flight takes place shall be sufficient evidence of that matter unless the contrary is proved; and a document purporting to be such a certificate shall in any proceedings be received in evidence and, unless the contrary is proved, be deemed to be such a certificate.
(b) Where the average monthly rate of exchange of the ECU to a national currency is not established by the Commission of the European Communities, in the event that the International Monetary Fund does not publish the International Financial Statistics for the month during which the flight takes place, a certificate given by or on behalf of the Treasury stating the average monthly rate of exchange between the ECU and the United States dollar and between the relevant national currency and the United States dollar for the month preceding the month during which the flight takes place shall be sufficient evidence of that matter unless the contrary is proved; and a document purporting to be such a certificate shall in any proceedings be received in evidence and, unless the contrary is proved, be deemed to be such a certificate.”.
(5) For Schedule 2 thereof shall be substituted Schedule 1 to these Regulations.
(6) For Schedule 3 thereof there shall be substituted Schedule 2 to these Regulations.
Signed by the authority of the Secretary of State for Transport
Patrick McLoughlin
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,
Department of Transport
1st December 1989
SCHEDULE 1
Regulation 2(5)


(1) (2) (3) (4)
Country Publication in which FIRS are described Unit Rate in ECUs Established at a Rate of exchange of
Austria AIP Austria 50.67 1 ECU= 14.5864 Sch
Belgium AIP Belgique 43.38 1 ECU= 43.3907 BF
France AIP France (France Metropolitaine) 48.17 1 ECU= 7.02906 FF
Germany, Federal Republic of AIP Germany 44.69 1 ECU= 2.07243 DM
Greece AIP Greece 20.86 1 ECU= 179.152 Dra
Ireland, Republic of AIP Ireland 26.10 1 ECU= 0.775973 Ir
Malta AIP Malta 42.10 1 ECU= 0.384 MAL
Netherlands AIP Netherlands 37.01 1 ECU= 2.33699 G
Portugal AIP Portugal 38.59 Santa Maria FIR-10.69 1 ECU= 173.539 Esc
Spain AIP Espana Madrid & BarcelonaFIR-43.62CanariesFIR-41.36 1 ECU= 130.211 Pts
Switzerland AIP Switzerland 45.78 1 ECU= 1.78478 SF
Turkey AIP Turkey 56.08 1 ECU= 2344.07 LT
United Kingdom United Kingdom Air Pilot 71.64 1 ECU= £0.674318

SCHEDULE 2
Regulation 2(6)


(1) (2) (3)
Aerodromes of departure (or of first destination) situated Aerodromes of first destination (or of departure Amount of the charge in ECUs
ZONE I
– between W01400 and W11000 and North of N5500 with the exception of Iceland Frankfurt 1,005.95
 London 701.95
 Paris 917.00
 Prestwick 367.51
ZONE II
– between W04000 and W11000 and N2800 and N5500 Amsterdam 677.89
 Athens 941.44
 Basle-Mulhouse 689.18
 Belfast 167.32
 Belgrade 1,023.24
 Berlin-Schonefeld 667.06
 Berlin-Tegel 643.00
 Birmingham 401.75
 Bordeaux 374.18
 Brussels 678.86
 Cardiff 286.72
 Casablanca 327.19
 Cologne-Bonn 756.08
 Copenhagen 651.71
 Dakar 140.89
 Dublin 137.16
 Dubrovnik 972.90
 Düsseldorf 760.43
 Frankfurt 820.50
 Geneva 653.15
 Glasgow 240.54
 Hamburg 629.10
 Helsinki 391.15
 Jeddah 967.03
 Lagos 134.80
 Lamezia-Terme 723.41
 Las Palmas (Canary Islands) 422.25
 Lisbon 370.44
 Ljubljana 998.61
 London 459.09
 Luxembourg 732.87
 Lyons 607.64
 Maastricht 705.28
 Madrid 484.69
 Malaga 571.90
 Manchester 365.81
 Manston 531.28
 Milan 717.02
 Monrovia 134.16
 Moscow 499.93
 Munich 898.10
 Naples-Capodichino 754.77
 Newcastle 380.31
 Nice 916.65
 Oporto 269.07
 Oslo 405.48
 Ostend 605.03
 Paris 540.38
 Pisa 715.70
 Ponta Delgarda (Azores) 139.18
 Prague 799.12
 Prestwick 240.54
 Rome 798.49
 Sal Island (Cape Verde) 156.61
 Santa Maria (Azores) 148.91
 Santiago 229.07
 Shannon 99.18
 Stockholm 414.08
 Stuttgart 764.92
 Tel-Aviv 1,119.52
 Tenerife 389.11
 Turin 831.14
 Venice 899.19
 Vienna 1,093.63
 Warsaw 633.45
 Zagreb 1,023.24
 Zürich 774.39
ZONE III
– West of W11000 and between N2800 and N5500 Amsterdam 775.72
 Düsseldorf 830.63
 Frankfurt 835.39
 London 661.40
 Luxembourg 903.20
 Madrid 390.51
 Manchester 522.00
 Milan 1,033.73
 Paris 750.15
 Prestwick 328.11
 Shannon 94.48
 Zürich 1,075.59
ZONE IV
– West of W04000 and between N2000 and N2800 (including Mexico) Amsterdam 661.88
 Berlin-Schonefeld 737.42
 Brussels 596.17
 Cologne-Bonn 690.89
 Copenhagen 660.47
 Düsseldorf 747.71
 Frankfurt 764.08
 Hamburg 794.57
 Helsinki 424.11
 London 451.28
 Madrid 603.33
 Oslo 434.14
 Paris 466.66
 Prague 831.45
 Sal Island (Cape Verde) 87.55
 Shannon 142.23
 Stockholm 474.22
 Vienna 997.05
 Zürich 707.38
ZONE V
– West of W04000 and between the equator and N2000 Amsterdam 829.10
 Bordeaux 685.29
 Frankfurt 845.48
 Las Palmas (Canary Islands) 517.07
 London 633.13
 Lisbon 501.41
 Lyons 881.94
 Madrid 663.56
 Manchester 533.23
 Marseilles 996.13
 Milan 976.10
 Oporto 487.51
 Paris 698.22
 Porto Santo (Madeira) 304.84
 Santa Maria (Azores) 195.95
 Santiago 488.13
 Shannon 242.41
 Tenerife 512.94
 Toulouse-Blagnac 837.26
 Zürich