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Brussels -After an over 10-year stalemate, something is moving on the Single European Sky reform. EU institutions have reached a\u00a0provisional agreement<\/span><\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0reorganize airspace management, which is too fragmented and increasingly busy<\/strong>, with some 30,000 flights a day.<\/p>\n

The goal of the package of amendments to the Single European Sky regulation – that the Commission proposed back in 2013 – is to improve the performance and organization of air navigation,\u00a0increasing its capacity while reducing costs <\/strong>and seeking to reduce aviation’s impact on the environment and climate. With airspace fragmented into a patchwork of\u00a027 different control jurisdictions,\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0aircraft often take inefficient routes, flying an average of 49 kilometers longer than strictly necessary, according to European Commission estimates.<\/p>\n

“The current nationalistic airspace architecture hinders progress, leading to longer flights, increased emissions, and unnecessary costs,” said the rapporteur for the European Parliament, the EPP’s\u00a0Marian-Jean Marinescu<\/strong>, on the sidelines of the agreement. The new rules finally pave the way to\u00a0improve climate and environmental performance of airspace management<\/strong>\u00a0by extending, in particular, binding environmental targets for terminal services and modulating charges to incentivize better environmental performance. According to the agreement, the EU will\u00a0establish an “independent, permanent, and professional” performance review panel<\/strong>\u00a0to advise the Commission on performance and charging scheme implementation. Funding for the expert group will come from the EU budget. Member states will designate a national supervisory authority to assess\u00a0airlines’ compliance with financial sustainability requirements<\/strong>\u00a0and the organizational structure.<\/p>\n

The reform clarifies that “air navigation service providers and the national supervisory authority may be part of the same organization, provided they are functionally separate and meet independence requirements.” EU countries’ supervisory authorities will assess with the Commission — and the independent Performance Review Board — the performance of airlines “while respecting the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality.”The agreement also aims to provide a tool for airspace users to reduce civil aviation’s environmental impact. Through the introduction of mandatory modulation of route charges, designed to\u00a0encourage citizens to support improvements in climate<\/strong>\u00a0and environmental performance, such as the use of the most fuel-efficient routes available or increased use of alternative, clean propulsion technologies, after a cost-benefit analysis determines that such modulation is feasible and presents added value.<\/p>\n

The EU Council presidency, represented in the inter-institutional trialogues by the Belgian Minister of Mobility,\u00a0Georges Gilkinet<\/strong>, said it was “very pleased” with an outcome that “will enable important progress to be made in reducing CO\u00b2 emissions from the aviation sector and will give member states more tools to limit the nuisance generated by aviation activity.”\u00a0A first step to “help the sector achieve carbon neutrality<\/strong>.” Before coming into force, the reform, expected since 2013, will be submitted to the Council and European Parliament for formal approval.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In European airspace about 30 thousand flights a day, across 27 different national jurisdictions. Reform proposed in 2013 to reduce the cost and environmental footprint of an underperforming system<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7527,"featured_media":230432,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"0","show_view_counter":"0","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25705],"tags":[27145,27146,26730],"class_list":["post-342573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-aviation-en","tag-sky-unique-europe-en","tag-trilogue-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7527"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342573"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":343382,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342573\/revisions\/343382"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}