Improving air traffic management performance is the purpose of the Single European Sky initiative. The performance and charging scheme is the regulatory instrument through which the European Commission drives it. For this purpose, a performance and charging scheme was enacted to ensure the efficiency of air navigation services across the four key performance areas of safety, environment, capacity and cost-efficiency.
The Commission works in cooperation with the Member States, their National Supervisory Authorities (NSAs) and Air Navigation Service Providers (ANSPs). The NSAs play an essential role in the implementation of the scheme at the local level, as they are responsible for the development, control and monitoring of the performance plans and targets.
A Performance Review Body (PRB) was created to assist the Commission and the NSAs in the implementation of the performance and charging scheme. It is an independent advisory body, which is composed of industry experts. Together with the PRB, the EU Single Sky Performance website is a repository for the performance and charging regulatory framework, including latest EC Decisions, PRB reports, monitoring dashboards and information on all related events.