The European Union (EU) plans to issue a new list of operators who are subject to its emissions trading scheme (ETS) in a bid to dispel the confusion caused by last August’s publication of an initial list that contained inaccurate and baffling information. The new list will appear next month, and business aircraft operators hope it will give a more complete picture as to which of them are subject to ETS requirements and to which national authority in one of the 27 EU member states they are accountable.
Sources close to several of the national authorities have indicated to AIN that hundreds of
smaller operators failed to meet last fall’s deadlines for registering their plans for monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) of carbon emissions. However, the UK Environment Agency, which has one of the largest numbers of operators to manage, said that it had approved MRV plans for operators who collectively account for 98 percent of total carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in its portfolio. This confirms the perception that most of the operators who have not registered for ETS are small operators, mostly from the business aviation community.
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