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Report on operations

Government/ENAV Program and Service Agreements

Concerning the 2013–2015 Planning and Service Contracts, the last technical
meetings between ENAV representatives and the representatives of the competent
national institutions were held during the year for the purpose of starting to work
on the above mentioned contracts once negotiations have been completed. The
agreement drafts and the relative attachments were consolidated on the basis of
what was agreed and sent to the Interministerial Committee for Economic Planning
(CIPE), for an opinion. As a result of the national regulations applicable in 2015, upon
receipt of notification from the CIPE to the effect that there were “no objections”,
the drafts were sent to the competent parliamentary commissions for a definitive
opinion which is a prerequisite for signing the contracts. In the first semester of
2015 the VIII Senate Public Works Commission and the IX House of Representatives
Transport Commission, having examined the planning contract drafts between the
Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport and ENAV for the 2013–2015 three-year
period expressed their favourable opinion for signing the contracts.
Following such positive response, the contracts were officially signed by the parties’
signatories towards the end of 2015.
In order to further the stature of ENAV and to ensure greater certainty and stability
in its legal relationships and coherence between the national setup of air navigation
services regulations and the European reference regulatory framework, the 2016
Stability Law No. 208/2015 defined the term of the Planning Contract to coincide
with the term of the national performance plan. In the first instance, a four-year
term regulating a period going from 1 January 2016 to 31 December 2019 was
established.
Moreover, it was decided that the new 2016–2019 Planning Contract be signed by
the parties by the end of April 2016.
Towards this end, the Company together with the reference institutional bodies
started the process of drafting the new Planning Contract at the end of 2015 and
delivered a new draft in February 2016.

Military Airports

In relation to the transfer of air navigation services of the military airports that are
also open to civilian traffic to ENAV, while Planning and Services Contracts are in
the process of being signed, in 2015 ENAV, having taken cognisance of the requests
of the control bodies to take over the provision of air navigation services from the
Italian Air Force, started the preliminary technical activities that are necessary for
the take-over of the services in those airports where the take-over was not made in
the previous year. Having concluded the updating and modernization phase of the
systems and the equipment used for Air Traffic Control in the airports that were in
the process of being taken over, for the purpose of adapting the technology and the
quality standards of the service to the same levels as in those airports that were
managed by the Company at the time, in 2015 ENAV took over the air navigation

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