Annual Monitoring Report 2020 - Romania
Contextual information
National performance plan adopted following Commission Decision (EU) 2022/2424 of 5 December 2022
List of ACCs 1
Bucharest ACC
No of airports in the scope of the performance plan
≥80’K 1
<80’K 1
Exchange rate (1 EUR=)
2017: 4.56629 RON
2020: 4.83499 RON
Share of Union-wide traffic (TSUs) 2020 4.3%
Share of Union-wide en route costs 2020 2.8%
Share en route / terminal costs 2020 92% / 8%
En route charging zone(s)
Romania
Terminal charging zone(s)
Romania
Main ANSP
• ROMATSA
Other ANSPs
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MET Providers
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Traffic (En route traffic zone)
▪ Romania recorded 320K actual IFR movements in 2020, -57% compared to 2019 (747K).
▪ The reduction in IFR movements for Romania was in line with the average reduction at Union-wide level (-57%).
▪ Romania recorded 2,246K actual en route service units in 2020, -56% compared to 2019 (5,117K).
▪ Romania service units reduced less than the average reduction at Union-wide level (-57%).
Safety (Main ANSP)
▪ ROMATSA achieved the RP3 EoSM targets in 2020 and exceeded the targets for two out of five management objectives. The achieved levels are better than what was planned in the draft 2019 performance plan. ROMATSA together with the NSA have implemented various measures and corrective actions to reach such high level of maturity.
▪ Romania recorded a good performance with respect to occurrences with no reported occurrences of RIs and lower rate of SMIs in 2020 compared to 2019. Romania remained below Union-wide rates for both SMIs and RIs in 2020.
▪ ROMATSA should improve its SMS by implementing automated safety data recording systems.
Environment (Member State)
▪ Romania achieved a KEA performance of 2.17% compared to its reference value of 1.55% and therefore did not contribute positively to the Union-wide target.
▪ Given that Romania’s KEA performance was the same as the shortest constrained routes and offers free route airspace, performance can only improve if flights stop re-routing to avoid Ukrainian airspace. The design of the KEA indicator means such deviations significantly impact performance.
▪ Nonetheless, ATS routes that still exist within Romania should be removed and the PRB notes that there is an ongoing initiative to begin this work.
▪ Only one out of two Romanian airports that are regulated reported terminal data fully since 2017.
▪ The share of flights operating CCO/CDO at Romanian airports improved in 2020 compared to 2019. The additional time airspace users spent taxiing or holding in terminal airspace reduced by 21% compared to 2019.
Capacity (Member State)
▪ ROMATSA registered zero 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 57% below the 2019 levels in Romania.
▪ Romania reported no capacity issues and a decrease of more than 3% in ATCO FTE numbers in 2020 compared to 2019 values. This represents a 10% deficit of ATCO FTEs compared to the planned number of ATCO FTEs for 2020. The deficit was caused by the interruption of recruitment and training processes due to the pandemic. The NSA also reported the problem of aging ATCOs at Bucuresti ACC, which is planned to be mitigated by the end of RP3.
▪ Based on the analysis of previous capacity profiles, the PRB estimates Romania will face a capacity gap once IFR movements rise above 95% of 2019 levels. The PRB recommends that capacity improvement measures are implemented before traffic begins to recover.
▪ The yearly total of sector opening hours in Bucharest ACC was 68,808, showing a 0.3% increase compared to 2019.
▪ Bucharest ACC registered 4.56 IFR movements per one sector opening hour in 2020, being 57.5% below 2019 levels.
Cost-efficiency (En route/Terminal charging zone(s))
▪ The 2020 actual service units (2,246K) were 56% lower than the actual service units in 2019 (5,112K).
▪ Romania reduced total costs in 2020 by 7.5 M€2017 (-4%) compared to 2019 actual costs. The decrease is mainly driven by 5 M€2017 (-4%) reduction in staff costs, due to recruitment freezing, reduction of additional benefits and the retirement of personnel without being replaced. Romania also decreased exceptional costs by 7.6 M€2017 (-100%), without providing an explanation.
▪ ROMATSA spent 21.6 M€2017 related to cost of investments in 2020, in line with 2019 draft performance plan (21.5 M€2017).