In order to facilitate the establishment by the Commission of Union-wide performance targets and without prejudice to the performance plans to be adopted at national or functional airspace block level, Member States as well as air navigation service providers shall fill such reporting table with initial forecast figures eighteen months before the start of a reference period.

2. Where, due to circumstances that were unforeseeable at the beginning of the period and are at the same time insurmountable and outside the control of the Member States and the entities subject to the performance targets, alert threshold(s) referred to in Article 9(3) is/are reached at national or functional airspace block level, the national supervisory authority or body concerned shall review the situation liaising with the Commission and may provide proposals for appropriate measures within three months, which may include the revision of the national or functional airspace block performance targets.

1. Where, due to circumstances that were unforeseeable at the beginning of the period and are at the same time insurmountable and outside the control of the Member States, alert threshold(s) referred to in Article 9(3) is/are reached at European Union level, the Commission shall review the situation in consultation with the Member States through the Single Sky Committee and provide proposals for appropriate actions within three months, which may include the revision of the European Union-wide performance targets and as a consequence revision of the national or functional airspace block performance targets.

This should commence at the beginning of their careers, namely at postgraduate level, and should include all levels, regardless of their classification at national level (e.g. employee, postgraduate student, doctoral candidate, postdoctoral fellow, civil servants).

What we have to decide is whether we will help more athletes get into the system at the entry level and work their way through the system, or whether we will invest more in athletes who have already achieved a very high level of performance.

Because we have a large number of grassroots, entry-level participants—your four-year-olds, your five-year-olds—there is talent, both in the coaching aspect and the player aspect.