Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/317Show full title

2. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION TO THE REPORTING TABLES ON TOTAL COSTS AND UNIT COSTS

2.1. The following additional information shall be provided, together with the information to be included in reporting tables on total costs and unit costs referred to in point 1.1 prior to the beginning of a reference period, as part of the performance plan:

(a)

a description of the methodology used for allocating costs of facilities or services between different air navigation services, based on the list of facilities and services listed in ICAO Regional Air Navigation Plan, European Region (Doc 7754) as last amended, and a description of the methodology used for allocating those costs between different charging zones;

(b)

a description of the methodology and assumptions used to establish the costs of air navigation services provided to VFR flights, when exemptions are granted for VFR flights in accordance with Article 31(3), 31(4) and 31(5);

(c)

the criteria used to allocate costs between terminal and en route services, in accordance with Article 22(5);

(d)

a breakdown of the meteorological costs between direct costs and the costs of supporting meteorological facilities and services that also serve meteorological requirements in general (‘MET core costs’). MET core costs include general analysis and forecasting, surface and upper-air observation networks, meteorological communication systems, data processing centres and supporting core research, training and administration;

(e)

a description of the methodology used for allocating total meteorological costs and MET core costs referred to in point (d) to civil aviation and between charging zones;

(f)

for each entity, description of the composition of each item of the determined costs by nature and by service (points 1 and 2 of Table 1), including a description of the main factors explaining the planned variations over the reference period;

(g)

for each entity, a description and justification of the method adopted for the calculation of depreciation costs (point 1.3 of Table 1): historical costs or current costs referred to in the fourth subparagraph of Article 22(4), and, where current cost accounting is used, provision of comparable historical cost data;

(h)

for each entity, description and underlying assumptions of each item of complementary information (point 3 of Table 1), including a description of the main factors explaining the variations over the reference period;

(i)

for each entity, description of the assumptions used to compute the cost of capital (point 1.4 of Table 1), including the composition of the asset base, the return on equity, the average interest on debts and the shares of financing of the asset base through debt and equity;

(j)

description of the determined costs of common projects (point 3.9 of Table 1).

Any changes to points (a) to (j) during the reference period shall be reported together with the information provided in accordance with point 2.2.

2.2. The following additional information shall be provided annually, together with the information to be included in the reporting tables on total costs and unit costs referred to in point 1.1:

(a)

for each entity and for each cost item, a description of the reported actual costs and the difference between those costs and the determined costs, for each year of the reference period;

(b)

a description of the reported actual service units and a description of any differences between those units and the figures provided by the entity that is billing and collecting charges as well as any differences between those units and the forecast set in the performance plan, for each year of the reference period;

(c)

the breakdown of the actual costs of common projects per individual project;

(d)

justification of the difference between the determined and the actual costs of new and existing investments of the air navigation service providers, as well as the difference between the planned and the actual date of entry into operation of the fixed assets financed by those investments for each year of the reference period;

(e)

description of the investment projects added, cancelled or replaced during the reference period with respect to the major investment projects identified in the performance plan, and approved by the national supervisory authority in accordance with Article 28(4).