S.I. No. 418/1983 - Air Navigation (Eurocontrol) (Route Charges) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations, 1983.

1. (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Air Navigation (Eurocontrol) (Route Charges) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations, 1983, and shall come into operation on the 1st day of January, 1984.

(2) The collective citation "the Air Navigation (Eurocontrol) (Route Changes) Regulations, 1980 and 1983" shall include these Regulations.

2. The Air Navigation (Eurocontrol) (Route Charges) Regulations, 1980 (

S.I. No. 78 of 1980

), are hereby amended by

(

a

) the substitution in Regulation 5(1) for "35.26 United States dollars" (inserted by the Air Navigation (Eurocontrol) (Route Charges) (Amendment) Regulations, 1983 (

S.I. No. 82 of 1983

)) of "26.09 United States dollars",

(

b

) the substitution, as on and from the 1st day of February, 1984, in Regulation 5 of the following paragraph for paragraph (1)

"(1) (

a

) Except in the case of flights specified in Regulation 6, the charge shall be calculated according to the following formula

r = N x the unit rate

where r is the charge for the flight, N is the number of service units relating to the flight and the unit rate is the rate expressed as an amount in United States dollars applied by the Organisation on the first day of each month and is recalculated monthly by applying the average monthly rate of exchange of the United States Dollar to the Irish Pound as established by the International Monetary Fund and published in its International Financial Statistics for the month preceding the month during which the flight takes place.

(

b

) Notice of the amount of the unit rate shall be published in

Iris Oifigiúil

as soon as may be after the rate has been ascertained and a copy of the said

Iris Oifigiúil

purporting to contain any such notice shall be received in evidence and shall be sufficient evidence of the amount of the said unit rate in any legal proceedings in the State relating to the charge.",

(

c

) the insertion after Regulation 6(1) of the following paragraph

"(1A) (

a

) The charges specified in column (3) of the Schedule to these Regulations (inserted by the Air Navigation (Eurocontrol) (Route Charges) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations, 1983)) shall be recalculated monthly by the Organisation by applying the average monthly rate of exchange of the United States Dollar to the Irish Pound as established by the International Monetary Fund and published in its International Financial Statistics for the month preceding the month during which the flight takes place.

(

b

) Notice of the amounts of the charges specified in column (3) of the Schedule to these Regulations shall be published in

Iris Oifigiúil

as soon as may be after the amounts of those charges has been ascertained and a copy of the said

Iris Oifigiúil

purporting to contain any such notice shall be received in evidence and shall be sufficient evidence of the amounts of the said charges in any legal proceedings in the State concerning the same.", and

(

d

) the substitution for the Schedule thereto (inserted by the Air Navigation (Eurocontrol) (Route Charges) (Amendment) Regulations, 1983) of the following Schedule

"Schedule

Aerodromes of departure (or of first destination) situated

Aerodromes of first destination (or of departure)

Amount of the charge in US$

(1)

(2)

(3)

ZONE I

Frankfurt

839.97

—between 14°W and 110°W and North of 55°N with the exception of Iceland

Kobenhavn

205.84

London

535.29

Prestwick

280.10

ZONE II

Amsterdam

552.09

—between 30°W and 110°W and 28°N of 55°N

Athinai

624.72

Belfast

134.55

Beograd

864.94

Bergen-Flesland

318.86

Berlin-Schonefeld

512.85

Birmingham

347.67

Bordeaux

295.40

Bruxelles

511.96

Cairo

659.62

Casablanca

91.92

Dhahran

699.39

Dublin

137.20

Dusseldorf

632.00

Frankfurt

664.07

Geneve

489.66

Glasgow

190.33

Goteborg

376.67

Helsinki

330.88

Jeddah

595.92

Kobenhavn

477.91

Koln-Bonn

646.42

Lagos

192.74

Las Palmas de Gran

116.67

Canaries

Lisboa

141.05

Ljubljana

789.25

London

374.45

Luxembourg

533.27

Lyon

464.36

Madrid

222.85

Malaga

256.85

Manchester

286.33

Milano

546.59

Moskva

350.53

Munchen

718.97

Newcastle

291.70

Nice

513.16

Oslo

366.55

Palermo

581.18

Paris

405.09

Pisa

493.76

Praha

787.80

Prestwick

190.33

Roma

562.66

Santiago

93.34

Shannon

98.36

Stuttgart

637.40

Tel-Aviv

724.43

Tenerife

74.97

Venezia

732.06

Warszawa

457.39

Wien/Schwechat

871.29

Zagreb

864.94

Zurich

588.06

Zone III

—West of 110°W and between 28°N and 55°N

Amsterdam

609.52

Dusseldorf

719.80

Frankfurt

727.72

Kobenhavn

408.95

London

510.73

Manchester

398.95

Paris

591.76

Prestwick

263.72

Shannon

94.45

ZONE IV

—West of 30°W and between equator and 28°N

Amsterdam

463.04

Bale-Mulhouse

422.73

Berlin-Schonefeld

525.98

Bordeaux

304.80

Bruxelles

417.38

Dusseldorf

585.30

Frankfurt

543.34

Kobenhavn

571.44

Las Palmas de Gran

208.05

Canarias

Lisboa

143.31

London

337.74

Lyon

387.08

Madrid

260.47

Milano

464.91

Paris

311.97

Porto Santo (Madiera)

43.71

Praha

670.89

Roma

534.85

Shannon

105.14

Tenerife

184.98

Zurich

474.75

GIVEN under my Official Seal this 30th day of December, 1983.

JIM MITCHELL,

Minister for Transport.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

These Regulations provide for the application of route charges at a rate of recovery of 100% of forecast costs.

S.I. No. 418 of 1983.

AIR NAVIGATION (EUROCONTROL) (ROUTE CHARGES) (AMENDMENT) (No. 2) REGULATIONS, 1983.

I, JIM MITCHELL, Minister for Transport, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by

section 12

of the

Air Navigation (Eurocontrol) Act, 1963

(No. 15 of 1963) (as amended by

section 1

of the

Air Navigation (Eurocontrol) Act, 1971

(No. 19 of 1971)), and the Tourism and Transport (Alteration of Name of Department and Title of Minister) Order, 1980 (

S.I. No. 11 of 1980

), hereby make the following regulations (the charges thereunder having been determined in pursuance of tariffs approved under an international agreement to which the State is a party)