Annual Monitoring Report 2020 - Netherlands
Contextual information
National performance plan adopted following Commission Decision (EU) 2023/179 of 14 December 2022
List of ACCs 1
Amsterdam ACC
No of airports in the scope of the performance plan
≥80’K 1
<80’K 3
Exchange rate (1 EUR=)
2017: 1 EUR
2020: 1 EUR
Share of Union-wide traffic (TSUs) 2020 2.8%
Share of Union-wide en route costs 2020 3.9%
Share en route / terminal costs 2020 77% / 23%
En route charging zone(s)
Netherlands
Terminal charging zone(s)
Netherlands
Main ANSP
• LVNL
Other ANSPs
• MUAC
MET Providers
• Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI)
Traffic (En route traffic zone)
▪ Netherlands recorded 596K actual IFR movements in 2020, -55% compared to 2019 (1,332K).
▪ Netherlands IFR movements reduced less than the average reduction at Union-wide level (-57%).
▪ Netherlands recorded 1,480K actual en route service units in 2020, -56% compared to 2019 (3,381K).
▪ Netherlands service units reduced less than the average reduction at Union-wide level (-57%).
Safety (Main ANSP)
▪ LVNL achieved its EoSM target in four out of five safety management objectives. The safety risk management objective was the only objective to not reach the target.
▪ The NSA explained that a limited update is required to the safety risk management process to achieve the RP3 target.
▪ LVNL’s 2020 EoSM performance is consistent with the safety maturity achieved at the end of RP2. The need to implement improvements in the safety risk management objective was anticipated and a small improvement will ensure that LVNL will achieve the EoSM targets before the end of RP3.
▪ The Netherlands recorded a higher rate of SMIs, which is unusual compared to other Member States and not what was expected considering the reduced level of traffic. On the other hand, the rate of RIs fell by more than 90% in 2020 compared to 2019.
▪ LVNL should improve its SMS by implementing automated safety data recording systems for RIs and SMIs.
Environment (Member State)
▪ FABEC stated that half of the Union-wide RAD simplifications applied in 2020 were within FABEC airspace and that eNM measures were not needed. This helped improve the shortest constrained routes within FABEC, but was not sufficient in helping to reach the FAB-level KEA reference value (2.90%) in 2020.
▪ At national level, the Netherlands achieved a KEA performance of 2.63% and the FABEC reference value is 2.90%.
▪ While the KEA performance in the Netherlands improved relative to 2019, the SCR was stable.
▪ Only one out of four Dutch airports that are regulated reported terminal data.
▪ The share of flights operating CCO/CDO at Dutch airports improved in 2020 compared to 2019, although it still requires further improvement as less than 30% of flights conduct CDOs.
▪ The additional time airspace users spent taxiing or holding in terminal airspace reduced by 43% compared to 2019.
Capacity (Member State)
▪ LVNL registered 0.01 minutes of average en route ATFM delay per flight during 2020, thus meeting the local breakdown value of 0.14.
▪ Delays must be considered in the context of the traffic evolution: IFR movements in 2020 were 55% below the 2019 levels in the Netherlands.
▪ The Netherlands reported no capacity issues and a 2% increase in ATCO FTE numbers in 2020 compared to 2019 values.
▪ Delays were driven by ATC capacity issues.
▪ The share of delayed flights with delays longer than 15 minutes in the Netherlands decreased by 19.25 p.p. compared to 2019.
▪ The yearly total of sector opening hours in Amsterdam ACC was 40,138, showing a 0.3% increase compared to 2019.
▪ Amsterdam ACC registered 6.68 IFR movements per one sector opening hour in 2020, being 55.2% below 2019 levels.
Cost-efficiency (En route/Terminal charging zone(s))
▪ The 2020 actual service units (1,480K) were 55% lower than the actual service units in 2019 (3,314K).
▪ The Netherlands increased total costs in 2020 by 3.7 M€2017 (+2%) compared to 2019 actual costs. Moreover, the Netherlands did not achieve the cost-efficiency targets in 2019.
▪ The cost increase is mainly due to the increase in MUAC staff costs due to high indexation and ATCOs negotiations on remuneration and the new Polaris building that has been put into operation.
▪ LVNL spent 20 M€2017 in 2020 related to costs of investments, 2% less than planned in the 2019 draft performance plan (21 M€2017). The underspending is due to issues with practical execution of projects due to COVID-19.