Originally Posted by oldboldpilots (Post 9893760)

I have a TB20 listed as 1400kg and I have received an invoice for the leg to Northern Holland on the way to Hamburg. It was a VFR flight across the North Sea. The charge is 12.91euro which is neither here nor there, but I will contest it.

Originally Posted by bookworm (Post 9894050)

Did you land in "North Holland"?

Originally Posted by BackPacker (Post 9894047)

OBP,

At what airfield did you land (or depart) in NL. Was this EHAM, EHRD, EHBK or EHGG by any chance?

In that case you've not been invoiced for "en-route charges" (for which VFR and IFR below a certain weight is exempt) but you've been invoiced for "terminal charges". Which is really Eurocontrol purely acting as the debt collector for LVNL - the local ATC at these fields.

And I'm not sure, but I think Eurocontrol also acts as the debt collector for the German civil ATC (Bundesluftsomething). So the charge may also be a "terminal charge" for that end of the flight.

Originally Posted by BackPacker (Post 9894282)

Your landing fee at EHGG consists of at least three separate items:
- Landing fees and parking fees. These go to the airport itself.
- Handling fees. These go to the handing agent.
- ATC charges. These go to ATC.

You've paid the first two at EHGG direct. The third one is now invoiced via Eurocontrol.

Here's the link explaining how this works. As others said, as far as Terminal Charges are concerned, Eurocontrol just acts as the debt collector.
https://www.eurocontrol.int/articles...ates-and-ansps

(And I was mistaken in my earlier post. The German ATC provider does NOT use Eurocontrol for Terminal Charges.)