Regulations and Government
EU delays deadline for ETS plans
Aircraft operators needing to register their plans for the monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) of emissions data under Europe’s emissions trading

Aircraft operators needing to register their plans for the monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) of emissions data under Europe’s emissions trading scheme (ETS) are probably facing a revised deadline of around Nov. 8, 2009. The European Commission (EC) on August 22 officially published a long-awaited revised list of operators and the European Union (EU) member states to which they have been allocated for compliance purposes.

In early July, European officials were forced to push back the earlier August 31 deadline because the EC had not published the revised list. At the time they indicated that the revised deadline for ETS registration would fall at least 11 weeks after the publication of the new list, which would take the timetable into November.