The European Commission’s latest list of operators subject to the emissions trading scheme (ETS) is still incomplete and inaccurate, according to companies that are trying to help operators comply with the new environmental requirement. The list was issued early last month but, according to Aaron Misko, president of Shockwave Aviation, there are still “hundreds” of aircraft that have been incorrectly assigned to the name of their flight-planning provider rather than to the actual operator.
While the new list appears not to include all operators who are subject to ETS because they fly into European airspace, Misko told AIN that some operators on the ETS list make no flights into Europe and have no plans to do so. Another frustrating anomaly of the ETS registration process is that some national authorities are charging fees to have compliance plans approved but most are providing this “service” for free. For example, the UK charges £750 ($1,170) to handle an ETS plan application and £800 ($1,248) to process the benchmark plan that is needed for operators to get their free allowance of carbon credits. Ireland is charging €200 ($272) for each of these processes, but many other countries make no charge at all.
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