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Cost-efficiency - SES RP3

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PRB monitoring

▪ In 2020/2021, Member States met the en route cost-efficiency Union-wide target.

▪ Union-wide en route actual costs in 2020/2021 were -2.3% below determined costs, while service units were +1.1% higher than planned. The discrepancy in costs is concerning, because Member States submitted their performance plans for 2021 in October of that year, and at a time they knew the actuals of more than half of 2021. Member States should have been able to plan their determined cost more accurately.

▪ The en route actual unit cost for airspace users (AUCU) has been -2.4% lower than the determined unit cost.

▪ The actual values of 2021 enable the calculation of the revenue gap ANSPs incurred during 2020/2021. The amount equals 5.6B €2017, which will be spread as an increase in the unit rates over five to seven years.

En route charging zone

Unit cost (KPI#1)

Actual and determined data
Total costs - nominal (M€) 2020-2021 2022 2023 2024
Actual costs 12,238 NA NA NA
Determined costs 12,476 6,632 6,861 6,988
Difference costs -238 NA NA NA

Summary of performance at local level

Actual unit cost incurred by the users (AUCU) (PI#1)

AUCU components (€/SU) – 2020-2021
Components of the AUCU in 2020-2021 €/SU
DUC 104.65
Inflation adjustment 0.44
Cost exempt from cost-sharing -0.61
Traffic risk sharing adjustment -0.08
Traffic adj. (costs not TRS) -0.17
Finantial incentives 0.00
Modulation of charges 0.00
Cross-financing 0.00
Other revenues -1.40
Application of lower unit rate -0.72
Total adjustments -2.53
AUCU 102.12
AUCU vs. DUC -2.0%
Cost exempt from cost sharing by item - 2020-2021 €'000 €/SU
New and existing investments -25,961 -0.22
Competent authorities and qualified entities costs -9,211 -0.08
Eurocontrol costs -27,588 -0.23
Pension costs -10,749 -0.09
Interest on loans 476 0.00
Changes in law 0 0.00
Total cost exempt from cost risk sharing -73,032 -0.61

Regulatory result (RR)

 
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