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Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2024/1688 of 12 June 2024 setting Union-wide performance targets for the air traffic management network for the fourth reference period from 1 January 2025 to 31 December 2029

Implementing Decision (EU) 2024/1688 · Decision · 8 articles

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Scope

Article 1

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This Decision sets Union-wide performance targets for the air traffic management network for the fourth reference period covering the five calendar years from 2025 to 2029.

Union-wide performance targets in the key performance area of safety

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Union-wide performance targets in the key performance area of safety, as referred to in point 1.1 of Section 1 of Annex I to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/317, to be achieved by the end of 2029 by air navigation service providers certified to provide services, are set at the following levels of effectiveness of safety management, expressed as a level of implementation, ranging from European Union Aviation Safety Agency (‘EASA’) level A to D: (a) at least Level C in the safety management objectives ‘safety culture’, ‘safety policy and objectives’, ‘safety assurance’, and ‘safety promotion’; (b) at least Level D in the safety management objective ‘safety risk management’.

Union-wide performance targets in the key performance area of environment

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Union-wide performance targets for the key performance area of environment, as defined in point 2.1 of Section 1 of Annex I to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/317, shall be expressed as an average horizontal en route flight efficiency of the actual trajectory and measured as average additional distance flown compared to the great circle distance and shall not exceed the following percentages: 2,80 % in 2025, 2,75 % in 2026, 2,71 % in 2027, 2,68 % in 2028 and 2,66 % in 2029.

Union-wide performance targets in the key performance area of capacity

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Union-wide performance targets for the key performance area of capacity, as defined in accordance with point 3.1 of Section 1 of Annex I to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/317, shall be an average en route air traffic flow management (‘ATFM’) delay attributable to air navigation services of a maximum of 0,9 minute per flight in 2025, 0,7 minute per flight in 2026, 0,6 minute per flight in 2027, 0,5 minute per flight in 2028 and 0,5 minute per flight in 2029.

Union-wide performance targets in the key performance area of cost-efficiency

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1. Union-wide performance targets for the key performance area of cost-efficiency, as defined in point 4.1 of Section 1 of Annex I to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/317, shall be a year-on-year change of the average Union-wide determined unit cost for en route air navigation services of -1,2 % for 2025, -1,2 % for 2026, -1,2 % for 2027, -1,2 % for 2028 and -1,2 % for 2029. The year-on-year change shall be calculated starting from the baseline value for the determined unit cost set in paragraph 3. 2. The Union-wide baseline value for determined costs shall be set at EUR 7 100 000 000, expressed in real terms in 2022 prices (‘EUR2022’). 3. The Union-wide baseline value for the determined unit cost shall be set at EUR 55,07 in EUR2022.

Alert thresholds

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1. Member States may request a revision of one or more performance targets contained in the performance plans, in accordance with Article 18(1), point (a)(i) of Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/317, where: (a) the actual traffic, recorded by Eurocontrol, deviates from the traffic forecast in the performance plan adopted in accordance with Article 16 of Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/317 over a given calendar year by at least 10 % of Instrument Flight Rules (‘IFR’) movements; or (b) the actual traffic, recorded by Eurocontrol, deviates from the traffic forecast in the performance plan adopted in accordance with Article 16 of Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/317 over a given calendar year by at least 10 % of service units. 2. Member States may request a revision of one or more performance targets contained in the performance plans, in accordance with Article 18(1), point (a)(i) of Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/317, where the variation of the reference values as a result of the seasonal updates of the Network Operations Plan (‘NOP’) pursuant to Article 9(4), point (a) and Article 9(8) of Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/123 in comparison to the reference values from the latest version of the NOP available at the time of drawing up the performance plan is at least: (a) 0,05 minute of en route ATFM delay if the reference value from the latest version of the NOP available at the time of drawing up the performance plan is less than 0,2 minute of en route ATFM delay; or (b) 0,04 minute of en route ATFM delay increased by 5 % of the reference value from the latest version of the NOP available at the time of drawing up the performance plan if the reference value is greater than or equal to 0,2 minute of en route ATFM delay.

Comparator groups

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The comparator groups of air navigation service providers with a similar operational and economic environment for the purpose of assessing performance targets in the key performance area of cost-efficiency shall be set as follows: (a) Group A: the air navigation service providers of France, Germany, Italy and Spain; (b) Group B: the air navigation service providers of Cyprus, Ireland, Malta and Portugal; (c) Group C: the air navigation service providers of Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia and Romania; (d) Group D: the air navigation service providers of Czechia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland; (e) Group E: the air navigation service providers of Austria, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Switzerland; (f) Group F: the air navigation service providers of Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden.

Entry into force

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This Decision shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union .

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