France's API/PNR reporting duty on commercial charter flights takes effect 1 October.
Commercial business aviation flights arriving in or departing from French territory must transmit Advance Passenger Information and Passenger Name Record data to the National Travel Data Agency (ANDV). The rule replaces the passenger-reporting element of the general declaration. Fines reach EUR 50,000 per flight for passenger data that is missing, incorrectly formatted, incomplete, or clearly false.
Two reporting points apply. H-48 is a preliminary submission of available passenger details 48 hours before departure. H0 is the final and accurate manifest at time of departure. Flights entirely inside mainland France are exempt. So are private flights filed with 'G' in Item 8 of the flight plan, crew-only positioning and ferry legs, cargo, maintenance, military, and medical evacuation.
The mandate reaches most aircraft flown by charter and management companies, including owner aircraft used for revenue trips. Owner-flown private departures are outside its scope. Owners whose aircraft sit on a European AOC or a US Part 135 certificate should confirm with their operator that ANDV registration and a passenger-data workflow are in place before 1 October.
Guidance published by the European Business Aviation Association on 29 July 2026 asked operators to review procedures and secure the necessary reporting capabilities. Some flight-department teams will handle the two submissions in-house through direct integration with ANDV. Others will route the filings through a specialist provider that pulls passenger and flight data from the flight-management system and files it on schedule.
The rule is separate from customs and border clearance and does not replace them. It also runs alongside the EU Entry/Exit System, which covers non-Schengen arrivals. Owners frequently routed on chartered legs into Nice, Le Bourget, or Cannes-Mandelieu face the new duty from the same day. OPSGROUP guidance published on 28 July 2026 flagged the compliance workload for smaller flight departments that until now relied on the general declaration alone.
Source: European Business Aviation Association industry update, 29 July 2026; OPSGROUP, 28 July 2026; ANDV API-PNR implementation guide.