Air navigation services performance review
Ensuring Europe's ANS systems perform to their potential.
Focus
The Performance Review Commission (PRC) was created by the EUROCONTROL States in 1998, following the adoption of the European Civil Aviation Conference (ECAC) Institutional Strategy the previous year.
A key feature of this Strategy was that “an independent Performance Review System covering all aspects of ATM in the ECAC area will be established to put greater emphasis on performance and improved cost-effectiveness, in response to objectives set at a political level”.
The Performance Review Unit (PRU) supports the Work Programme of PRC, which in turn provides independent advice to the EUROCONTROL Permanent Commission through the Provisional Council on pan-European ATM performance.
The PRU, with the PRC, collects and analyses performance-related data and develops recommendations to the Permanent Commission through an annual performance review report. Supported by the PRU, the PRC:
- conducts performance research to improve long-term performance measurement and to test new indicators;
- benchmarks operational stakeholders;
- provides in-depth analysis and independent ad-hoc studies on PRC initiative and at the request of interested parties;
- ensures widespread circulation of best practices for ATM performance.
The PRU has developed web-based Performance dashboards giving up-to-date and user-friendly access to and display of a wealth of performance data.
The ANS performance data portal provides monthly updates of performance information covering all 41 States. Customised reports can also be requested online, e.g. vertical flight efficiency.
The ACE dashboard gives easy access to data, indicators and interactive graphics on European ANS cost-effectiveness.
The Service Units Dashboard allows monitoring and interacting with en-route service units billed by the CRCO or forecasted by STATFOR and States.
The PRU also supports the official Single European Sky SES Performance Dashboard.
The Performance Review Unit (PRU) provides support to the EC under a service contract, signed in 2017, which runs for four years. Activities include support to monitoring, target setting and assessment of performance plans.
The PRU also supports the EC, its Agencies and Advisory Bodies under a longer-term co-operation agreement. Activities include:
- assessment of technical compliance of unit rates and reporting on costs exempt from cost sharing;
- work on US-EU performance comparisons and ad hoc analyses at the EC’s request in support of performance and charging schemes;
- promotion of global and regional performance measurement within ICAO and other world regions;
- secondment of performance experts to the EC.
Areas of common interest can be added to this co-operation.
Dashboards
Aviation intelligence portal
Air traffic management cost-effectiveness dashboard
Service units dashboard
Single European Sky online monitoring dashboard
Dashboards
Air traffic management cost-effectiveness dashboard
Aviation intelligence portal
EUROCONTROL airline groups lookup
Service units dashboard
Single European Sky online monitoring dashboard
Governance
Our air navigation services performance review activities are performed by the Performance Review Unit (PRU) on behalf of the Performance Review Commission.
For more information about the relation between the two bodies and their way of working visit our governance section.
Latest highlights
Call for candidates for the Performance Review Commission (PRC)
ATM Cost-Effectiveness (ACE) First look at ACE 2023 data
Performance Review Commission issues its latest ATM Cost-Effectiveness Benchmarking Report
EUROCONTROL's PRC publishes Performance Insight #9
