Eurocontrol appears to be close to finally approving the funding and development of its ETS Support Facility, which would give business aircraft operators a relatively cost-effective way of meeting their obligations to monitor, report and verify carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions under Europe’s emissions trading scheme (ETS). A May 6 meeting of the air traffic management agency’s air navigation services board expressed support for the plan but deferred a final decision pending further negotiations to allay the concerns of Eurocontrol member state Ukraine. According to the European Business Aviation Association (EBAA), these negotiations could be completed within a few weeks and it expects the ETS Support Facility to get the final go-ahead.
A spokesperson for Eurocontrol confirmed that a board proposal to extend the agency’s responsibilities into support for environmental policy was approved at the meeting. She added that a so-called “scrutiny reserve” by one Eurocontrol member state would be “clarified in the next few weeks.”
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