L 139/104
EN
Official Journal of the European Union
18.5.2022
(51)
The Commission notes that some Member States have indicated their intention to include cost items relating to airport drone detection in their RP3 cost bases.
It has not been possible to precisely establish, based on the elements contained in the draft performance plans, to what extent Member States have included such determined costs in their RP3 cost bases and, where such costs have been included, to what extent they are incurred in relation to the provision of air navigation services and could thus be deemed eligible under the performance and charging scheme.
The Commission services have sent an ad hoc information request to all Member States in order to gather relevant information, and will further examine the reported airport drone detection costs in the context of unit rate compliance verification.
This Decision is without prejudice to the findings and conclusions of the Commission on the topic of drone detection costs.
(52)
In response to Russia’s military aggression against Ukraine, which started on 24 February 2022, the Union has adopted restrictive measures prohibiting Russian air carriers, any Russian-registered aircraft and any non-Russianregistered aircraft which is owned or chartered, or otherwise controlled by any Russian natural or legal person, entity or body from landing in, taking off from, or overflying the territory of the Union.
Those measures are leading to a reduced air traffic in the airspace over the territory of the Union.
The impact at the Union-wide level should however not be comparable to the reduction of air traffic which resulted from the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020.
Therefore, it is appropriate to maintain the existing measures and processes for the implementation of the performance and charging scheme in RP3,
HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
Article 1 The performance targets contained in the draft performance plan submitted by Portugal, pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 549/2004, and listed in the Annex to this Decision, are consistent with the Union-wide performance targets for the third reference period set out in Implementing Decision (EU) 2021/891.
Article 2 This Decision is addressed to the Portuguese Republic.
Done at Brussels, 13 April 2022.
For the Commission Adina VĂLEAN Member of the Commission