Annual Monitoring Report 2020 - Slovenia
Contextual information
National performance plan adopted following Commission Decision (EU) 2022/777 of 13 April 2022
List of ACCs 1
Ljubljana ACC
No of airports in the scope of the performance plan
≥80’K 0
<80’K 0
Exchange rate (1 EUR=)
2017: 1 EUR
2020: 1 EUR
Share of Union-wide traffic (TSUs) 2020 0.5%
Share of Union-wide en route costs 2020 0.5%
Share en route / terminal costs 2020 100% / 0%
En route charging zone(s)
Slovenia
Terminal charging zone(s)
Main ANSP
• Slovenia Control
Other ANSPs
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MET Providers
• Slovenian Environment Agency (ARSO)
Traffic (En route traffic zone)
▪ Slovenia recorded 195K actual IFR movements in 2020, -58% compared to 2019 (460K).
▪ Slovenia IFR movements reduced more than the average reduction at Union-wide level (-57%).
▪ Slovenia recorded 264K actual en route service units in 2020, -58% compared to 2019 (627K).
▪ Slovenia service units reduced more than the average reduction at Union-wide level (-57%).
Safety (Main ANSP)
▪ Slovenia Control achieved the RP3 EoSM targets in four out of five management objectives and only needs to further improve in the safety risk management objective.
▪ The achieved maturity levels are consistent with the planned levels included in the draft 2019 performance plan. Slovenia Control, together with the NSA, implemented multiple review processes and continuous monitoring to ensure a continued high safety performance.
▪ Slovenia had a good performance with respect to safety occurrences with no occurrences recorded neither for SMIs nor RIs.
▪ Slovenia Control should improve its SMS by implementing automated safety data recording systems.
Environment (Member State)
▪ Slovenia achieved a KEA performance of 1.51% compared to its reference value of 1.68% and therefore contributed positively towards the Union-wide target.
▪ The actual KEA performance is close to the shortest constrained routes, suggesting that within the current airspace design, airspace users are flying the most optimum routes. Therefore, Slovenia should consider whether the current airspace design will support the traffic recovery and take into account any differences in traffic flows that may occur.
▪ Slovenia has no airports that are regulated under the RP3 performance and charging scheme.
Capacity (Member State)
▪ Slovenia Control registered near zero minutes of average en route ATFM delay per flight during 2020, thus meeting the local breakdown value of 0.23.
▪ Delays must be considered in the context of the traffic evolution: IFR movements in 2020 were 58% below the 2019 levels in Slovenia.
▪ Slovenia reported no capacity issues and no changes in ATCO FTE numbers in 2020 compared to 2019. On-the-job training of three ATCOs was stopped due to the pandemic, which explains the 4% difference between actual and planned ATCO FTEs in 2020.
▪ The share of delayed flights with delays longer than 15 minutes in Slovenia decreased by 29.81 p.p. compared to 2019.
▪ The yearly total of sector opening hours in Ljubljana ACC was 14,797, showing a 22.9% decrease compared to 2019.
▪ Ljubljana ACC registered 10.18 IFR movements per one sector opening hour in 2020, being 45.0% below 2019 levels.
Cost-efficiency (En route/Terminal charging zone(s))
▪ The 2020 actual service units (264K) were 57% lower than the actual service units in 2019 (618K).
▪ Slovenia reduced total costs in 2020 by 2.6 M€2017 (-8%) compared to 2019 actual costs. The reduction is primarily driven by a decrease in staff costs of 2.7 M€2017 (-13%), resulting from delay of ATCOs employment.
▪ Slovenia Control spent 2 M€2017 in 2020 related to cost of investments, 59% less than planned in the 2019 draft performance plan (4.9 M€2017). Costs related to other investments and existing investments decreased compared to the plan. No explanation has been provided regarding this decrease.