Annual Monitoring Report 2022 - Croatia
Contextual information
National performance plan adopted following Commission Decision (EU) 2022/764 of 13 April 2022
List of ACCs 1
Zagreb ACC
No of airports in the scope of the performance plan
≥80’K 0
<80’K 0
Exchange rate (1 EUR=)
2017: 1 EUR
2022: 1 EUR
Share of Union-wide traffic (TSUs) 2022 2.1%
Share of Union-wide en route costs 2022 1.3%
Share en route / terminal costs 2022 100% / 0%
En route charging zone(s)
Croatia
Terminal charging zone(s)
Main ANSP
• Croatia Control
Other ANSPs
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MET Providers
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Traffic (En route traffic zone)
▪ Croatia recorded 713K actual IFR movements in 2022, +55% compared to 2021 (461K).
▪ Actual 2022 IFR movements were +42% above the plan (501K).
▪ Actual 2022 IFR movements are in line with the 2019 level (714K).
▪ Croatia recorded 2,229K actual en route service units in 2022, +47% compared to 2021 (1,519K).
▪ Actual 2022 service units were +41% above the plan (1,582K).
▪ Actual 2022 service units are +1.6% above the actual 2019 level (2,193K).
Safety (Main ANSP)
▪ Croatia Control improved its performance in safety risk management but not sufficiently to achieve the RP3 target. Croatia Control exceeded the planned maturity levels for safety policy and objectives. The establishment of a proactive safety management system at CCL gave confidence that the ANSP can achieve the RP3 targets before the end of RP3.
▪ Croatia recorded an increase in the rate of runway incursions (RIs) and separation minima infringements (SMIs) in 2022. Croatia Control adopted the European Action Plan for the Prevention of Runway Incursions.
▪ Croatia monitored safety performance using specific safety tools, including the automated safety data recording systems for the recording of SMIs and RIs.
Environment (Member State)
▪ Croatia achieved a KEA performance of 1.49% compared to its target of 1.46% and did not contribute positively towards achieving the Union-wide target. For the first time in five years, Croatia slightly missed the target in 2022.
▪ The NSA states that there were no specific reasons why the performance target was not achieved.
▪ Both KEP and SCR deteriorated in comparison to 2021.
▪ Croatia has no airports that are regulated under the RP3 performance and charging scheme.
Capacity (Member State)
▪ Croatia registered 0.57 minutes of average en route ATFM delay per flight during 2022, thus not achieving the local target value of 0.16.
▪ The average number of IFR movements was slightly below 2019 levels in Croatia in 2022.
▪ Traffic is expected to grow dynamically. The number of ATCOs in OPS is planned to increase by 32% in Zagreb ACC by the end of RP3. The Actual value remains slightly below the 2022 plan due to the higher-than-planned number of ATCOs leaving and a lower-than-planned number of ATCOs being trained by 2022.
▪ Delays were highest between July and September, mostly driven by ATC Capacity reasons and adverse weather.
▪ The share of delayed flights with delays longer than 15 minutes in Croatia increased by 13.94 p.p. compared to 2021 and was higher than 2019 values.
▪ The yearly total of sector opening hours in Zagreb ACC was 33,839 in 2022, showing a 36.7% increase compared to 2021. Sector opening hours are 7.5% below 2019 levels.
▪ Zagreb ACC registered 20.08 IFR movements per one sector opening hour in 2022, being 10.3% above 2019 levels.
Cost-efficiency (En route/Terminal charging zone(s))
▪ The en route 2022 actual unit cost of Croatia was 34.32 €2017, -36% lower than the determined unit cost (53.35 €2017). Croatia does not have a terminal charging zone.
▪ The en route 2022 actual service units (2,229K) were +41% higher than the determined service units (1,582K).
▪ The en route 2022 actual total costs were 7.9 M€2017 (-9.4%) lower than determined, as all cost categories decreased. It was mainly attributable to lower staff costs (-5.6 M€2017, or -11%). The NSA explained that it is mainly due to not fully realised recruitment plan. The decreases in real terms were also a result of significantly higher-than-expected inflation.
▪ Croatia Control spent 10.5 M€2017 in 2022 related to costs of investments, -3.4% less than determined (10.9 M€2017), mainly due to the postponement of investments.
▪ As for the previous monitoring year, the discrepancies regarding total costs were significant. As mentioned last year, the PRB invites the NSA to analyse the discrepancies, identify their reasons, and the Member State to take immediate, adequate, and proportionate actions.
▪ The en route actual unit cost incurred by users in 2022 was 41.73€.