Press release
06-03-2024 - 05:40
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Single European Sky: deal on better management
of European airspace
• Airspace performance plans every three years
• Air navigation charges to encourage fuel-efficient routes
• Performance targets on climate and environmental factors
After a decade of negotiations MEPs and the Belgian Presidency of the Council have
agreed on new EU rules to optimise flight routes, reduce flight delays and cut CO2
emissions.
A provisional agreement was reached on Wednesday morning between Parliament, led by
rapporteurs
Marian-Jean Marinescu (EPP, Romania)
and
Bogusław Liberadzki (S&D, PL),
and
Council negotiators on the reform of the so-called Single European Sky rules.
Better performance
The agreed text introduces performance plans for air navigation services to improve network
management of EU airspace, with binding targets and incentives to make flights more efficient
and environmentally friendly. An independent advisory Performance Review Board would be set
up to help Commission and member states take decisions on the implementation of these plans.
Greener flights
MEPs secured in the negotiations provisions to make air navigation services and network
management contribute to climate neutrality. Under the new rules the Commission will adopt EU
performance targets on capacity, cost efficiency, climate and environmental factors for air
navigation services. The performance of these services against these targets would be
reviewed at least every three years.
Under the deal, Commission will have to conduct a study to help define how charges levied on
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European Parliament - Spokesperson: Jaume Duch Guillot
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