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Performance Scheme Implementation in Functional Airspace Block Central Europe

The Single European Sky initiative was launched in order to increase safety standards, airspace capacity and to decrease costs for air navigation service providing as well as the influence of air traffic on environment. Implementation of SES initiative has been carried out through two regulatory packages. SES I was oriented primarily on airspace restructuring and didn’t bring significant results which imposed the need for updating the legislation by second regulatory package. SES II package was performance oriented and introduced the measurement of the ATM performance through Performance scheme implementation. Measurement in ATM performance is driven by four key performance areas: safety, capacity, environment and cost-efficiency. Performance scheme itself should provide indicators and binding targets of key areas with condition of achievement and keeping the necessary safety level, allowing thereby setting targets in other key areas and it presents the basis for achieving the main efficiency related objectives. All Member States of the EU are obligated to draw and elaborate Performance Schemes for ATM, with targets for each identified key performance area in defined reference period. The Central European airspace has a significant influence on European air traffic management system and every movement in airspace design or air navigation service provisioning could contribute to better flow of European air traffic. FAB CE is still in its implementation phase but once it is implemented it will also play an essential role in reducing major delays in air traffic caused in the South East axis. For optimum usage of airspace, increase flight efficiency and safety, certain performance targets should be set within FAB CE in all key performance areas. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the implementation status of Performance scheme in the first reference period.

efficiency; performance scheme; functional airspace block

The research of Transport and Spatial Correlation of Sustainable Regional Development is partially supported by University of Zagreb Grant, Contract No. 2013-ZUID-21.