The European business aviation community may have to wait until September to learn whether the European Union General Court considers the industry to be “an environmentally sustainable economic activity.” That is what is at stake in a case filed by Dassault Aviation and the EBAA to challenge the European Commission’s exclusion of the sector from its EU Taxonomy in a move the plaintiffs say is discriminatory and makes it harder to invest in decarbonization efforts.
Judges in Luxembourg started hearing the case on February 10, and this process is expected to run for up to six months. EBAA is determined to reverse the Commission’s ruling to avoid a precedent in which one part of the aviation industry can be—in the words of the group’s director of public affairs and communications, Róman Kok—“carved out” and treated as “sacrificial lambs.”
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