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Report on operations

2015–2019 Performance Plan

In accordance with EU Regulations No. 390/2013 and 391/2013, the year 2015
constitutes the first year of the second reference period of the five-year performance
plan that will therefore terminate in 2019. Moreover, there are provisions for terminal
services to be subjected to this plan which, in Italy, will involve airports that are
included in the first and second charge bands.
In line with regulatory provisions, the process of definition of the performance plan
for the second reference period had already started in 2014 with the publication
of Decision No. 132/2014 with which the European Commission defined the
performance objectives at the EU level, or rather, the levels of efficiency required at
the European level in the four areas, namely economic efficiency, capacity safety and
the environment, for the 2015–2019 period.
With respect to the provisions of the first reference period in which the objectives of
the performance plan were set at a national level, the new regulatory framework plan
has normalized the definition of performance plans at the level of the Functional
Airspace Block (FAB). The Italian performance plan therefore coincides with the
Performance Plan of the Blue Med Functional Airspace Block (fab) which is made up
of Italy, Malta, Cyprus, and Greece. Notwithstanding the fact that the EU Regulator’s
focus in relation to performance has shifted from the national to the FAB dimension,
the regulations provide in any case that as far as the fulfilment of economic efficiency
objectives are concerned responsibility rests with the individual member states.
As stated, in the second reference period, terminal services are also subject to
the performance scheme. In Italy, this means that the performance scheme will
apply to the first charge band of Rome’s Fiumicino airport, with a number of flight
movements in excess of 225,000 and the second charge band which includes Milan
Malpensa, Milan Linate, Venice Tessera and Bergamo Orio al Serio with a number of
flight movements between 70,000 and 225,000. The first band is totally subject to
the performance scheme and is therefore bound by both the traffic risk mechanism
(sharing of risk between the provider and the users of the air space) and the cost risk
(elimination of the possibility to transfer entirely to the carriers, through charges,
any cost fluctuations of the actual cost with respect to between that specified in
the performance plan planned). The second charge band on the other hand is only
subject to the cost risk.
The third charge band refers to airports with less than 70,000 IFR movements, which
are exempt from the application of the EU regulations and subject to the national
regulations by applying the cost recovery system.
Taking into account the targets established by the Commission, ENAV has therefore
defined its own economic and operational programming for the period in question.
Said programming, in accordance with the provisions of the EU regulations in relation
to performance for air navigation service providers, is therefore channelled into the
performance plan that ENAC submitted to the European Commission on 1 July
2014. The official result of the assessment of the plan by the European Commission,
also on the basis of input provided by the technical support body, the Performance
Review Body (PRB), came on 2 March 2015 with the publication of Decision (EU) No.

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