The mass documentation shall be prepared prior to each flight and documented in an operational flight plan.

EGNOS also enables the planning of shorter, more fuel efficient routes which will reduce the CO2 emissions of the industry.

6. Member States shall ensure that the central unit for ATFM produces an annual report providing details of missing flight plans, or multiple flight plans that are filed and that the report is submitted to the Commission.

1. This Regulation lays down the requirements on procedures for flight plans in the pre-flight phase in order to ensure the consistency of flight plans, repetitive flight plans and associated update messages between operators, pilots and air traffic services units through the Integrated Initial Flight Plan Processing System, either in the period preceding the first delivery of air traffic control clearance for flights taking off from within the airspace covered by this Regulation or in the period preceding entry into that airspace for other flights.

‘initial flight plan’ means the flight plan initially submitted by the originator including changes, if any, initiated and accepted by pilots, operators, an ATS unit or the centralised service for flight planning processing and distribution of flight plans during the pre-flight phase;

7. ATC units shall, during the pre-flight phase, make available through IFPS any necessary changes affecting the route or flight level key items of a flight plan that could affect the safe conduct of a flight, for flight plans and associated update messages previously received by them from IFPS.