Cathal Crowe (Clare, Fianna Fail)
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136. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 196 of 1 December 2020, if he was referring to an EU regulation (details supplied). [44616/21]

Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party)
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The regulatory process referred to in my reply to Parliamentary Question 196 of 1 December 2020 falls under the EU Commission’s Single European Sky's performance and charging schemes framework. For each Member State this framework regulates the cost structure for the provision of air navigation services and the level of charges that can be applied in relation to same, over what are known as reference periods. The current reference period is Reference Period 3 (RP3) which covers the years 2020 – 2024.

I can confirm that the relevant EU Regulation in respect to this regulatory process is Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/317 which, due to the significant and unprecedented detrimental impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the aviation sector, was amended for the purposes of RP3 by Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1627.