Eu Slot Allocation Regulation

The amending EU Slot Regulation has now been officially published in the Official Journal, as Regulation 2020/459 on common rules for the allocation of slots at Community airport (see our post on the urgent written procedure followed and the Council’s final approval yesterday).

The Worldwide Airport Slot Guidelines (WASG), provide the industry with a single set of guidelines for airport slot management and allocation. The slot planning process is the essential back bone to allow the industry to plan operations to the world’s most congested airports, avoiding what would otherwise be chaos. Council Regulation (EEC) No 95/93 of 18 January 1993 on common rules for the allocation of slots at Community airports see amending acts.

Eu Slot Allocation Regulation Definition

As mentioned in earlier posts, the aim of this measure is to address the sharp drop in air traffic as a result of a significant fall in demand and direct measures taken by the Member States as well as third countries to contain the COVID-19 outbreak, and to mitigate the obligation of air carriers under Article 8(2) of Council Regulation 95/93, read in conjunction with Article 10(2) thereof, where the failure by an air carrier to operate at least 80% of a series of slots which it has been allocated at a coordinated airport threatens the historical precedence for those slots.

The amending Regulation takes into account forward bookings and epidemiological forecasts finding that it is reasonable to expect that there will be a significant number of cancellations attributable to the pandemic in the period between 1 March 2020 and at least 24 October 2020. Therefore, it provides in Article 1 that ‘for the purposes of Articles 8(2) and 10(2), coordinators shall consider slots allocated for the period from 1 March 2020 until 24 October 2020 as having been operated by the air carrier to which they were initially allocated’. That situation is expected to be under the continuous review of the Commission, which is also empowered by virtue of this measure to take further urgent Delegated Acts to address further related issues.

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The amending Regulation will enter into force tomorrow, 1 April 2020.

Access the Regulation in the Official Journal here.

Eu Slot Allocation Regulations

Carriers under the existing allocation rules. Currently, the allocation of slots in the EU is an administrative procedure gov-erned by EC Council Regulation 95/93 (as amended). The regulation defines slot capac-ity available for allocation (a definition that, since the coming into force of Regulation 793/2004, also includes the use of airport. ACI EUROPE has set out its recommendations for a comprehensive overhaul of the EU Airport Slot Regulation – calling for vital and overdue change in the way airport slot allocation is governed.