Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2021/891 of 2 June 2021 setting revised Union-wide performance targets for the air traffic management network for the third reference period (2020-2024) and repealing Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/903 (Text with EEA relevance)

Union-wide performance targets in the key performance area of safety, set for the key performance indicator defined in point 1.1 of Section 1 of Annex I to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/317, to be achieved by the end of 2024 by air navigation service providers certified to provide air traffic services are set at the following levels of effectiveness of safety management: (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 for the key performance area of environment, set for the key performance indicator 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: 2,37 % in 2021, 2,37 % in 2022, 2,40 % in 2023 and 2,40 % in 2024.

Union-wide performance targets for the key performance area of capacity, set for the key performance indicator defined in point 3.1 of Section 1 of Annex I to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/317, shall be an average en route ATFM delay attributable to air navigation services of a maximum of 0,35 minute per flight in 2021, 0,5 minute per flight in 2022, 0,5 minute per flight in 2023 and 0,5 minute per flight in 2024.

1 Union-wide performance targets for the key performance area of cost-efficiency, set for the key performance indicator defined in point 4.1 of Section 1 of Annex I to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/317 and subject, in respect of calendar years 2020 and 2021, to Articles 2(4) and 4(1) of Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1627, shall be a year-on-year change of the average Union-wide DUC for en route air navigation services: (a) in respect of the combined calendar years 2020 and 2021, for which a single average DUC is calculated in accordance with Article 4(1) of Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1627: change of +120,1 % from the Union-wide DUC baseline value for the DUC set in paragraph 3; (b) in respect of calendar year 2022: change of -38,5 % from the single average Union-wide DUC of calendar years 2020 and 2021 combined, calculated in accordance with Article 4(1) of Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1627; (c) in respect of calendar year 2023: change of -13,2 % from the average Union-wide DUC of calendar year 2022; (d) in respect of calendar year 2024: change of -11,5 % from the average Union-wide DUC of calendar year 2023.

2 The Union-wide baseline value for determined costs shall be set at EUR 6265631152 in EUR2017.

3 The Union-wide DUC baseline value shall be set at EUR 50,23 in EUR2017.

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 IFR movements; (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 pursuant to Article 9(4), point (a) and Article 9(8) of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/123 in comparison to the reference values from the latest version of the Network Operations Plan 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.

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 Germany, France, Spain and Italy; (b) Group B: the air navigation service providers of Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Ireland; (c) Group C: the air navigation service providers of Czechia, Croatia, Slovenia, Hungary, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Poland, Romania and Portugal; (d) Group D: the air navigation service providers of Cyprus, Malta, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Greece; (e) Group E: the air navigation service providers of Austria, Switzerland, Belgium-Luxembourg and the Netherlands.

Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/903 is repealed.

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