Euro Regulators Get an Earful about EU-ETS at EBACE

EBAA CEO Fabio Gamba and NBAA president and CEO Ed Bolen gave a panel of European regulators an earful about the EU Emissions Trading Scheme this morning at the EBACE 2012 opening general session. The EU officials included Matthew Baldwin, the European Commission’s director for aviation and transport policy; Marian Jean Marinescu, a member of the European Parliament; and Salvatore Sciacchitano, executive secretary of the European Civil Aviation Conference.

“We tried to find ways to create a more flexible simplified procedure whereby small emitters are not required to monitor emissions on a flight by flight basis,” Baldwin said at the session. However, he said all operators can do now is to “turn to Eurocontrol,” adding that political support for EU-ETS remains strong.

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